I learnt something new today while looking at how the Victorians viewed pets. Irish wolfhounds went extinct around 1720. That I didn’t know, as we see them today, but it seems they are not original. Or even a purebreed.

An Englishman took a Scottish deerhound, and mixed it with a great dane. Then chucked in some tibetan mastiff and a boxer, and we have what we see today. A recreation of an extinct animal which seems not a drop of Irish as the name would imply.

Seems there has been much tinkering of plants, animals, environment and people along the way.

(c) K Wicks