The modern Irish wolfhound is a cross between the Scottish deerhound and the Great Dane.
The Irish wolfhound of history is no more, the breed having become extinct years ago.
The Russian wolfhound has a reputation for being a most capable wolf-catcher in his native country, but so far the pure bred hound of that family has not held his own with the American wolf.
According to the idea of the American-Irish Wolfhound Club, the Irish wolfhound should be "not quite so heavy or massive as the Great Dane, but more so than the deerhound, which in general type be should resemble.
The Wolfhound and his mate were just about to enter their den, and Finn touched Warrigal with his muzzle, "pointing" meaningly at the strangers.
Illustration: The Wolfhound raised his bearded muzzle, and softly licked the Master's thin brown hand.
The great Wolfhound stood erect on his hind-feet, snapping at the air with foaming jaws, and tearing impotently at the iron-sheathed partition with his powerful claws.
Another of the men tossed a big crust of bread to Finn, and, seeing the way the Wolfhound bolted this, realized that the hound was as near to starving as the man.
For actual toughness under murderous assault a dingo could have beaten Finn; yet in a test of staying power, an ordeal of long endurance, the Wolfhound would have won easily, by reason of his greater reserve of strength and vitality.
This is the more probable, as the fact remains that the chief factor in the resuscitation of the Irish Wolfhound has been the Scottish Deerhound.
Cotswold, who is undoubtedly the grandest Irish Wolfhoundever bred.
This was the year the Irish Wolfhound Club presented the hound Rajah of Kidnal as a regimental pet to the newly formed Irish Guards.
I am disposed to affirm that the old Irish Wolfhound and the Highland Deerhound are not only intimately allied in form and nature, but that they are two strains of an identical breed, altered only in size by circumstance and environment.
The Irish Wolfhound Club watches over the interests of the breed.
The Irish Terrier= This is unquestionably a very ancient variety of dog, indigenous to the Emerald Isle, in certain features being a modification of the Wolfhound of that country.
I was one of the official judges at the Chicago Bench Show in 1892, and wolfhound classes were assigned me.
At the expiration of ten minutes, I signaled the slippers to come and take the dogs up; and thus ended the bid of the Russian wolfhound for popularity in this country.
That dog is a pure cross between a Siberian wolfhoundand a Newfoundland.
The Irish wolfhound is now very scarce, and a genuine specimen is a valued and highly coveted possession.
The hunt was now going directly from us, with the dust and the wolfhound behind, following the line in front.
The coyote heard him coming, spun on his fore feet, offering his fangs to those of his foe, and threw himself backward just as the jaws of the wolfhound clashed at him and flecked his throat with foam.
Still, once he did pick up a trail, he would follow it as nowolfhound could, with unfailing certitude, and without troubling to use his eyes.
In her movements she was, of course, infinitely slower than her wolfhound mate.
I've reared too many big wolfhound pups to make that mistake.
For two days she had taken no food; and as she obviously fretted when Finn was kept away from her, the wolfhound was allowed to come and go at Shaws as he chose, and as he did at Nuthill.
When the Master really wanted Finn to understand anything, the wolfhound very rarely failed him.
But his muzzle was the right wolfhound steel-gray.
She had seen the wolfhound only once before, when she was somewhat less grown-up and he was still in puppyhood, before the visit to Australia.
I think I understand," said Phyllis thoughtfully, as she and the wolfhound went to interview Mrs. Clancy.
Where was her rose-garden--the garden she had married the wolfhound and Allan and the check-book for?
When she got into her room she found that there also she was not alone: the wistful wolfhound was curled plaintively across her bed, which he overlapped.
Suddenly the wolfhound raised its head and stared into the ashes also, as if it saw something there that no man saw, for the bristles lifted on its neck, and it whined a little.
Here sat the Dark Master, a little oaken table before him on which his breakfast had rested, and at his side crouched a long, lean wolfhound that nuzzled him unheeded.
O'Donnell rose and walked down the hall toward Cathbarr, in his hand a little switch that he used upon that wolfhound of his.
The Irish wolfhound is a big, active, sagacious, wonderfully companionable dog, muscular and graceful, and as full of fun as a terrier.
The Irish wolfhound is to-day a splendid animal," said he, "and the breed deserves to be better known in this country.
There was an Irish knight or officer who had his wolfhound with him at the battle of Aughrim, and together they slew many of the enemy.
One evening some soldiers crossed the battlefield, and one of them came over to see what manner of beast the wolfhound was.
And something made Soyo's wolfhound act as it did!
The wolfhound had evaded several outstretched hands and got to the buffet.
The wolfhoundstarted forward as though to leap, then settled back.
Twisting the leather cruelly, he dragged the protesting, snarling brute to the doors and slid them shut with the wolfhound barking and growling on the outside.
The Irish wolfhound is now extinct, but appears to have been a powerful race heavier than the deerhound but similar to it in general characters.
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