Origin Stories: Winston and Diva

WalkTail Hour Community,

We are super excited to invite you to our next Origin Story with Winston and Diva.  They are another rescue greyhound pair with some amazing humans (seriously amazing humans).  Give their story a read below.  Leave some nice comments and please share their amazing stories.  We love to read these stories.  It is one of the reasons we started our Origin Story Series.

Make sure you check out their social media here:  https://www.instagram.com/winston__and__diva/
They have some great links and so many wonderful photos.

Enjoy!


Winston Aged 5 adopted on the 30/09/2020

We rescued Winston ourselves.  He was a free to good home on Gumtree. Little did we know they were greyhound racing trainers giving him up. They told us he was too slow to race and that he was trainable to live with cats ( we have two sphynx cats). He was in poor condition, he was filthy and covered in open wounds.

Winston was definitely not cat friendly. We tried to train him ourselves however he was so fixated on the cats it was proving to be impossible.  We sought the help of other greyhound rescue organizations and they told us he would never be cat friendly and we need to surrender him. We were definitely not giving up on this beautiful boy. We decided he would live separately to our cats. As the months went on I found an ad by a lovely lady who runs Nilly Ray's Greys. She rescues and trains greyhounds to live with small animals. So we enrolled Winston to do her bootcamp. I burst into tears when she was sending videos of Winston with cats, rabbits and ferrets. It was so amazing to see these hounds can be trained to live with small animals.

We now network through Instagram with other greyhounds parents going through the same issues with re activity and integrating greys with their cats. It makes us so happy that we are able to help people.

Winston is such a happy go lucky boy. He gets so excited for car rides and adventures. He has this energy that is so infectious and adores humans and demands pats while he leans into you.


Diva aged 5 adopted on the 5/09/2021

Diva was in the horrors of the racing industry up until she was 4 years old. She was moved from states to race and she won many. Her last trainers were found guilty of giving her illegal substances.

Diva was rescued by Nilly Rays greys. We took Winston for a meet and greet and he bonded with Diva straight away. He leaned his head onto her and it was just the sweetest thing.

Diva is a very active girl, she does zoomies in our apartment and her favourite thing is playing fetch.

She always sleeps in the goofiest positions that make us laugh. She roaches and has her tongue out or teeth exposed. We never get tired of that.

Like Winston Diva wasn't cat friendly and now she has a special bond with our Apollo.

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