Irish Wolfhound Puppies Blog » History http://irishwolfoundpuppiesblog.com Irish Wolfhound Dogs Wed, 02 May 2012 07:54:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Did you know? http://irishwolfoundpuppiesblog.com/blog/2008/03/13/did-you-know-5/ http://irishwolfoundpuppiesblog.com/blog/2008/03/13/did-you-know-5/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:46:27 +0000 D Dog Fan {http://irishwolfoundpuppiesblog.com/2008/03/did-you-know-5} - 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.

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