Did you manage to get Aston from Spain, how is he??
Hi!
Thanks for your message. Yes he has been with us for a month now. He is in many ways very adorable but it has been quite a journey. He has major separation anxiety, but is slowly improving. He can’t be left at all yet but has stopped barking when I go to a different room. We are working on desensitising him.
Him and Lexi have a lot of fun together even though it can sometimes get a little out of hand 
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Posting some pics below x
Once he has settled, It will be lovely for you to look back and say “do you remember when…”
The best breed is rescue 
Thank you Lily! 
And his mother. Kim. On her 9th birthday. Kim is nr.29 Deerhound, Silk is nr.30 and the other picture is Draig, nr.31.
Angles can be deceptive 
We had his pedigree confirmed at a specialist show, as we had had requests to sire and wanted to be sure.
Is he second hand without history?
Oh yes, bone is wolfhound. No mistake. Head looks like irish breeding, heads are less heavy than uk or continental breeding.
We had some very limited history from the animal shelter, but had to investigate his lineage, as he’d been abandoned, and the breeder, originally from the Saint Étienne area had shut up shop. In the end, we managed to find the vet that created his dog passport, so took all the paperwork to a show and had him confirmed there.
He did sire a litter with a bitch from Brioude and one of the pups was bought by people we knew nearby, but that would be over 10 years ago now.
Strange kind of breeder. My buyers have to sign a 9 page contract including anything that comes from us, adult or puppy, must be returned to us. We don’t need to know any reason, just so long as they come back. People like us like to think that we don’t add to the population of unwanted dogs…
We learned that the original buyer clearly had no idea what having a wolfhound would imply, as he was being kept in a 50m2 flat and left on his own inside most of the time.
See, and I make you come 3 times, don’t care how far, and spend hours gauging your responses to my dogs. Especially when we take you out with 7 adults running free on the mountain. Anxiety at that point, and we will get back to you…No,prospective owners of giant breeds have to be extensively vetted. For everyone’s sake, the dog, the owner and also the general public. Nice to see you were willing to take an IW on. Got any dogs now? We have our last remaining pug and 2 new DHs booked for next year. We’ve retired from breeding now but others have our bloodlines, so it’s still our own. I usually end up advising on which dogs to use. 35 years was enough.
I had no issues with taking a wolfhound, even a rescue one. Unfortunately, all of our various dogs passed away a few years ago, and we decided that we didn’t want anymore at that time, one of the reasons being the lack of any decent kennels for when we have to travel for business, which turned out to be quite a lot. Both I and my wife have had various dogs pretty much all of our lives, and we might consider getting one again when we finally slow down, but are still able to get about physically - both of us are pretty keen on a IW, but we shall have to see when the time comes. The one we had was so gentle, but could be as mad as a hatter, and if he smelt a deer or a rabbit, he was off ! The French population around here aren’t too keen on IWs, they think they look, and behave, like wolves, and of course, they are banned from being used for hunting in France, so the hunters around where we lived frowned on ours, when we took him out. Their size also frightens off children/teenagers, and snoopers in general, especially when they come racing up to the gate. Even if they don’t really bark, the sight of that open maw, the massive head, serrated teeth and tongue hanging out, was enough to deter any would be entrant to the property!
A Dutch friend for whom we used to dogsit from time to time, had 26 dogs, of which around 14 at any one time would be both Wolfhounds and Deerhounds (Levriers d’Ecosse)
All were very gentle and loving, when I walked the whole pack (the smallest and most intelligent of the lot was a Spaniel/Dachsund X) the large hounds would often walk with me with head tucked underneath my arm. 
But I did learn to listen for the sound of horses’ hooves and to keep in a straight line not wander. This because the noise was not of horses but of giant hounds who loved to miss by millimetres as they thundered past.
Sorry just re-read the thread title, so here is our old boy Boss, who despite his gloomy expression, brightened our lives for 16 months until he gave up the ghost at 12 years of age.
Yes, they have this unnerving thing going on called" ghosting". You need to know to step left or right at the right moment. Only, it differes with every dog. The lady I got my first DH of had a knee and a hip replacement. Thank you to the dogs. She was very proud of it, too. Some of us must have just overdone the dog thing a bit, I sometimes think…