Name: So You Want an Irish Wolfhound? Make Room: A Practical Guide to Responsible Selection, Humane Training, Health, and Lifelong Care (So you want a dog ?)
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Author: Cole, Brandon
ISBN: 9798170167487

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So You Want an Irish Wolfhound? Make Room: A Practical Guide to Responsible Selection, Humane Training, Health, and Lifelong Care (So you want a dog ?)

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Independently published

Author

Cole, Brandon

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Paperback

ISBN13

9798170167487

So You Want an Irish Wolfhound? Make Room: A Practical Guide to Responsible Selection, Humane Training, Health, and Lifelong Care (So you want a dog ?)

Cole, Brandon (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "So You Want an Irish Wolfhound? Make Room: A Practical Guide to Responsible Selection, Humane Training, Health, and Lifelong Care (So you want a dog ?)"

So you want an Irish Wolfhound? Excellent. First, make room. Then make a little more. Tall, dignified, sensitive, and occasionally capable of making ordinary furniture look suspiciously undersized, the Irish Wolfhound is much more than the romantic “gentle giant” of photographs and legends. So You Want an Irish Wolfhound? Make Room is a practical guide to responsible selection, humane training, health, and lifelong care—built around the realities of sharing your home with a powerful giant sighthound. Choose the Dog, Not Just the Legend Learn how to evaluate breeders and rescues, verify health records, understand family history, ask about liver-shunt testing, recognize sales pressure, and decide whether an Irish Wolfhound genuinely fits your household, budget, vehicle, and lifestyle. Raise a Giant Before He Realizes He Is One Build house-training habits, recall, leash manners, calm greetings, cooperative handling, social confidence, and safe everyday routines using humane reward-based training rather than force or intimidation. Exercise, Feeding, and the Serious Stuff Understand controlled puppy growth, appropriate activity, prey-drive management, body condition, GDV and gastropexy discussions, cardiac concerns, persistent lameness, osteosarcoma awareness, and the warning signs that deserve prompt veterinary attention. :contentReference[oaicite:3] :contentReference[oaicite:4] Care at Full Scale Prepare your home, flooring, fencing, transport, grooming routine, emergency plan, caregivers, finances, and later-life support for a dog whose size changes even the most ordinary tasks. The goal is not simply to own an impressive Irish Wolfhound. It is to give a remarkable giant companion a safe, comfortable, well-understood life—and to accept that “personal space” may eventually become more of a theoretical concept.