Did you know?
D Dog Fan | March 13th, 2008
- Irish Wolfhounds really live up to their names. These huge dogs were used by the Celts, for hunting wolves.
- They were in Ireland by 500 BC and were sent to Rome by 393 BC, where they were viewed by the Romans in the arena.
- Novelist, Sir Walter Scott owned one and it was believed to have been six feet long, from head to tail.
- They would have become extinct by now, had it not been for people like George A. Graham, who gathered many of the remaining Wolfhounds in 1862 and began breeding them.
