IRISH WOLFHOUNDS: A Passion

The breed of dog that has won our hearts.

While ALL dogs are worth loving, these are our particular favourites.

There are now a great many Irish Wolfhound resources on the Internet. Anyone interested in this breed can easily network with other Irish Wolfhound fanciers throughout the world.

Involvements with the breed

Breed Clubs

Rescue Organizations and information

Please visit your country's breed club pages for up-to-date contact information on breed rescue. These organizations are too numerous to be kept up-to-date here. Beware of so-called rescues that are not affiliated or endorsed in some way with their national or regional clubs. Individuals calling themselves purebred rescue may simply be after the hounds for their own gain.

Breeders of our recent Irish Wolfhounds

To Increase your Chances of Acquiring a healthy and sound Irish Wolfhound:

Encourage responsible breeding. For a registered purebred, buy from a breeder that screens breeding stock for inheritable health defects, and that cares enough to screen YOU, much like an adoption agency would!

For most ethical breeders of purebred dogs, breeding is an expensive and time-consuming hobby, engaged in for the preservation and improvement of the particular breed. This requires constant study, and acquisition of knowledge about all aspects of the breed and the individual dogs related to those owned by the breeder.

Avoid breeders who spread themselves too thin by breeding more than 2 or 3 different breeds. Avoid breeders who always have puppies available. Avoid breeders who sell puppies for resale. When profit is the object of breeding, too often corners get cut.

In Canada it is a contravention of the Livestock Pedigree Act to advertise or sell a dog or puppy and represent it as being purebred unless it is registered with the Canadian Kennel Club. PLEASE NOTE: Another registry in North America that calls itself the CKC should NOT be confused with the Canadian Kennel Club. A dog registered only with the Continental Kennel Club is not eligible for registration with the AKC, the *real* CKC, the UKC or other kennel clubs of the world which recognize only those registering bodies which have track-records of reasonably good record-keeping .

Candles for Liath and Kyrie

On October 10, 2003, they will have been gone for 10 years. This is the point, at which, given the breed's lifespan, I was sure the possibility of their being alive is so close to nil that to continue looking for them or to discover convincing proof about who may have abducted them (for we are now sure that is what happened) would serve no purpose other than continued self-punishment. That book is, with terrible sadness, closed.



An Irish Wolfhound named Alanna, lying in the shade facing right
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