From Track to Tranquillity - Snowy’s Journey to Becoming a Country Dog

From Spotlight Sunday to Forever Home 

We recently featured Snowy as part of our Spotlight Sunday and Foster Campaign, and we’re thrilled to share some wonderful news - he’s officially found his forever home! After spending time with the amazing team at Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders, Snowy has now settled into a loving new family where he’s already showing his sweet nature and charm. This marks the beginning of a beautiful new chapter for him, and we couldn’t be happier to see him so content. Hear from his new family below:

Snowy Settles Into His New Home 

"Snowy (Somersham Snowy) is an absolute delight. He was described on the Yarmouth Homefinders' website as 'friendly Snowy', which was a good start, but he is also a very happy and amusing dog by nature, and all the more so now that he has settled into home life.  

He is a country dog now, and has met all sorts of farm machinery, cattle, friends, strangers and a wide assortment of dogs with remarkable calmness, albeit always on a lead in public. He loves long walks and the interesting rural smells on the miles of footpaths around us. Even when he occasionally meets a rather fierce-looking and 'reactive' shar pei, Snowy is calm, if slightly bemused. (We still always carry a muzzle with us, just in case.) He has freedom to run properly in his enclosed garden, so we have a routine of an informal 'training session', where he has learnt some basic commands (down, stay, heel etc), followed by zoomies and playing. I may take him to proper dog-training lessons now that he has the basic idea. Recall is not his strong suit, but he is greedy enough to respond to treats, which is helpful. Snowy seems to derive enormous enjoyment from his dog-toys, with different toys seeming to satisfy different instincts: bouncing about with a little squeaky space hopper; 'killing' a fluffy pheasant; galloping off with a string of plastic sausages as if re-enacting a Victorian dog painting. These toys really seem to enrich his life, and ours.

Snowy came to us well-adjusted and house-trained, having spent time in a foster home. He always sleeps with the 'yellow friend' toy that his foster carer kindly gave him to ease his rehoming. At first he whined and barked when left downstairs at night, but ignoring him quickly cured it, although it felt a bit mean at the time. When friends come over, after initial greetings, if Snowy is ignored he just lies down quietly with us or in his bed. The value of Yarmouth Homefinders' foster-home volunteers and dog-toy designers has been a particular revelation with Snowy, who is our third greyhound from Homefinders and probably not our last." 

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Snowy’s story is a wonderful reminder of the joy that comes from giving retired greyhounds the chance to flourish in a loving home. We’re so grateful to Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders for their continued dedication, and to Snowy’s new family for opening their hearts to him. It’s clear he’s already making the most of his new adventures - and bringing plenty of laughter along the way.

If Snowy’s journey has inspired you, why not consider adopting or fostering a greyhound yourself? Take a look at our online adoption platform here or get in touch today by emailing [email protected]!