Cassius has begun to assume the postion
What you should know: in the cult of greyhound there is language novelties, jargon, that the initiates use regularly and uncircumscribed. First: everything a greyhound does is cute, and deserving of fair comment of approval and or wonder.
Cassius is our second greyhound. He came to our home on April Fool's. He is a small male, and was more socialised with people than our first boy, Captain America. Captain had as his favorite furniture, a leather upholstered back of a large recliner. When the chair was delivered, years ago, it came in two pieces. The back hooks on to the seat. The original piece was imperfect, and the store delivered a new one, and told us to keep the first one. Well, for years it had no real use, it stayed in the basement. It is a fine bed for greyhounds. It was Captain's. Cassius decided on an arm chair.
Cassius likes to rest his muzzle on one of the arms. He also curls up on the seat. The last couple of nights he put himself to 'roaching'. This position includes legs up and akimbo. The arms of the chair prevents full body stretch. When Captain 'roaches', you can see how big of an animal he is.
The term, roaching, refers to the similarity in appearance to dead cockroaches. One greyhound joke is, "Play dead? My dog plays rigor mortis". Some say this a sleeping position, quite often the hound is awake and smiling. Neither of my hounds did this in house initially. They had to be familiar, and trusting of us, to do so.
People have asked me of whether i lost a couch? as they suppose this is the rumoured behaviour of greyhounds. Only in the last week or so has Cassius napped on a couch, and Captain only the last two-three days.
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