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Re recall, with Greyhounds I doubt you'd ever have them off the lead in public, although I have seen a couple. Instead of tennis courts look for a secure dog paddock near you, I'm in the middle of no where and there is loads. It's possible you may need to muzzle depending on which lucky pup you take home. I love greyhounds, we ended up with a Whippet due to size, he's ok off the lead but his prey drive is only for balls and some birds.
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Re recall, with Greyhounds I doubt you'd ever have them off the lead in public, although I have seen a couple.
The couple you have seen might not have been racing dogs. If you adopt a retired racer you basically have to accept the dog had no recall training when it was a pup.
As I understand it, a greyhound raised and trained from a puppy would probably end up with similar recall to a whippet. I.e pretty good unless there's a squirrel, cat, rabbit, deer or fox involved. Ex racer? No chance.
Stonehedge
For a few years I've been thinking of getting a whippet/greyhound, then lockdown happened and just wanted to see how things panned out in terms of days in the office. Yesterday my partner and I went to an open day at a rescue centre for retired racing greyhounds.
There must have been around 40/50 dogs all mixing and they were all so well behaved, couldn't believe it. We took a big male out (40kg) and he was pulling on the lead a bit, but seemed to get better over time. The open day was so busy, and primarily like an excuse for owners to have a reunion, so will make an appointment when the staff have more time to talk.
Would like to get one soon but have a feeling our garden isn't quite secure enough, so could be a good push to get it sorted sooner than later. We also have some tennis courts very close so could be a good place to practice recall and play initially?