the vet you spoke to obviously know nothing about lurchers,good advice would be find one that does for future reference your bound to need one at some point,spend as much time with it as possible they bond fast and hard as a rule and love you for it,use any excuse to call as has been said meals what ever but never for nothing i could go on for ever find a good book on the subject read and follow you should not go wrong,all the best doga.