Walk them frequently at first, and they quickly learn that their new home is the place they keep clean and outside is where they go to relieve themselves. Greyhounds easily adapt to the life-style of their new owners. Feel free to take your greyhound walking or jogging with you as your exercise regime dictates. During their racing career, they eat up to 4000 calories per day, but burn off excess weight when they run. As a pet, they eat much less, just four to six cups of dry food a day.
Greyhounds spend most of their lives in the company of other dogs.
When they are born, the average litter size is about eight pups. Young greyhounds are given a lot of attention and handled as much as possible. As they approach their first birthday, their training begins and they are taught to chase a lure, eventually progressing to a racetrack. Dogs race every three to seven days and most racing kennels have about 60 dogs. Most greyhounds have seen little of the everyday world including houses, stairs, mirrors and cats, and have seldom, if ever, ridden in a car.