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00:00 She raced 200 times.
00:01 She had never experienced home life.
00:03 I'm Kayleigh, and this is Lulu's story for GFBeats.
00:07 We had recently lost Murphy, our other greyhound,
00:10 and we wanted to foster him as a way to honour his memory.
00:13 We contacted our local rescue.
00:14 Lulu came along, and it's hard to explain,
00:17 but she wasn't really a dog.
00:18 She just didn't know how to be a dog.
00:20 The TV was really quite a trigger for her.
00:27 Every time the TV was on, she'd be quite freaked out by it.
00:30 She took herself straight upstairs,
00:31 got stuck on the way down the stairs,
00:33 and her husband had to carry her down.
00:35 Just the normal, everyday things that we just take for granted
00:38 were so different for her,
00:39 something that she'd never experienced.
00:41 She was absolutely loving it.
00:47 We've never had a hound that literally will come in
00:56 and get on the sofa with you immediately.
00:58 She's a very loving dog.
01:00 She's a very loving dog.
01:01 She's a very loving dog.
01:02 She's a very loving dog.
01:03 She really frightened of men.
01:04 She took to me straight away, but not my husband.
01:07 It took a good few weeks for her to cuddle up to him on the sofa.
01:11 And my dad, he's a long-time dog lover.
01:24 Lulu is terrified of him, and we're still working on it now.
01:27 We had a little breakthrough.
01:28 One day, she took treats off him.
01:31 She actually got up on the sofa next to him.
01:33 She gave him a little kiss.
01:35 The next time he came round,
01:36 it was like she'd never met him before again.
01:38 So I think it's going to be a long process for her
01:40 to trust men completely.
01:42 Lulu's got two personalities at home.
01:44 She's just so sweet.
01:45 You can't sit on the sofa and not be with her.
01:48 Sometimes you need to do something,
01:50 but you just know that she's all relaxed
01:52 and you just want her to stay there,
01:53 so you just don't do whatever you need to do.
01:56 It melts my heart to see her so happy.
01:58 She thinks she's won the lottery.
01:59 She's just so thankful.
02:01 She's just the prettiest little girl.
02:17 She's got these crazy white big teeth,
02:19 and they're just always sticking out when she's asleep,
02:22 and she looks some sort of demon
02:24 when it comes to being outside of the house.
02:26 She gets really excited to go,
02:27 but when she's out, her personality just changes.
02:30 She's completely different.
02:31 She's shy, she's withdrawn.
02:33 We went to the beach, and she'll just walk.
02:35 She's just not sure of her surroundings yet.
02:38 I think I decided that she was there to stay from day one.
02:41 It was something about the way that she looked at me.
02:44 She just had this look of love.
02:46 You could literally feel the love radiating off her.
02:48 She just looked right into your soul.
02:51 It's really hard to describe.
02:52 I said to her, "You remind me of Murphy,"
02:55 and she just laid her head on my chest for a cuddle,
02:57 and I just burst into tears.
03:00 ♪♪
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