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This page is for people who love Irish Wolfhounds. We raise them for ourselves. We have gone to great lengths to produce great Wolfhounds.

03/04/2022

Daddy (Ri-Mactire) and a VERY pregnant mommy (Mo Chroí) laying together.

28/12/2021

Fiona is only 5 months old and already sble to rough-house with the adult females.

28/12/2021

Siobhan is so perfectly aligned with Ri-Mactire, in this picture, that he looks like he has a blond stripe down his back.

17/12/2021

We moved the big dog bed to the foot of the bed, because Ri-Mactire looked crowded on the side of the bed. We figured one of smaller Wolfhounds could sleep on the side of the bed. But he isn’t giving up his spot. He is trying to fit on the smaller bed.

04/12/2021

This is how a 4.5 month old Wolfhound takes up an entire 8’ sofa.

09/11/2021

There are a lot of scams out there. Some like this one just take your money. Others are producing dogs that will bring you nothing but vet bills. Choose a quality breeder. They will welcome your questions. They are proud of their dogs. We will not be breeding again until the Spring of 2022.

07/11/2021

The walk from the kitchen to my bedroom. There are 2 other puppies sleeping elsewhere.

02/11/2021

Ri-Mactire with his ears out like wings on his head.

29/10/2021

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28/10/2021

At 15 weeks Fiona is almost as tall as Mo Chroi (grey) and Siobhan (wheaten). She will be a tall girl. She looks very leggy at this age, just like Ri-Mactire did at her age.

28/10/2021

Fiona looks grey from one angle and red-brindle from another. This photo catches both views.

20/10/2021

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12/10/2021

To create and maintain the highest quality Wolfhounds requires a constant investment, by a breeder, into dogs with new genetics. We are completely opposed to the practice of line-breeding. Breeders who do it claim it is not inbreeding but that is a distiinction without a difference.

In September Mactire Irish Wolfhounds added Fiona Mactire to our family. Next week Saoirse Roisin Mactire Ionmhain Norman (Roisin for short - pronounced “Row-sheen) will be flying in from Paris to join the Mactire family. Then in November we will be dojng a puppy swap with another quality breeder to add one more female into the pack. We are making the investment now so we can maintain our ability to produce quality puppies years down the road.

08/10/2021

I just received this photo from one of our owners. Sirius is still growing but he is already a fine example of the breed.

01/10/2021

Just received this picture of one of the dogs from a previous litter. I love the coloring on Obelix.

01/10/2021

We are hoping that Siobhan is pregnant. We did have a natural lock with Ri-Mactire.

04/09/2021

Fiona getting to know our other dogs.

30/08/2021

Here is a memory for our Wolfhound owners.

21/07/2021

These are two puppies we sent to the same home, from 2 different litters (to avoid litter-mate syndrome). They are roughly 6 months apart in age.

04/07/2021

With the front part of his body on our bed, Ri-Mactire is in the perfect position to watch the Quail in our front yard, while they eat. Just look at those thoughtful eyes. Is he thinking; look at those wonderful birds, or that could be my breakfast, if they would just let me out?

30/06/2021

Apparently watching Greenbeard preach on TV this morning was taking away too much attention from Ri-Mactire. It is hard to see around that head.

05/06/2021

This is love in a pure form. Ri-Mactire is almost knocking me off the bed trying to give hugs without violating the rules against getting on the bed. His feet are on the ground. Then he has bent his body around my feet and body to land his enormous head on my chest, trying to get my attention. Wolfhounds are 100% love.

29/05/2021

We produced the dam in this photo, MacKenzie, a couple years ago. We recently bred her with our stud from a different line, for MacKenzie’s owner. It was a fairly small litter but sometimes that can be a blessing with a first time mamma. These puppies were all spoken for within minutes of our opening the website for deposits.

Sometimes it is weeks or months before the final color of the puppies can be determined, because they are all born with black birth hair but 2 of these boys werd so blonde, under the birth hair, that even at birth we knew they would be wheaten.

28/05/2021

Their growth rate always amazes me. They go home as puppies 8 weeks old but 14 weeks later your puppy is the size of many fully grown dogs.

21/05/2021

We have produced a few other puppies that looked like they would be a wheaten-brindle before but normally they turn completely wheaten by 5-6 months old. I love this color. Newt at 5 months old.

21/05/2021

This is why I tell people that determining color at birth is impossible. This girl was very dark, almost black at birth, a week ago. Now it is clear that she will be wheaten, like her mother.

17/05/2021

I love how his ears go out when I talk to him. My boy, Ri-Mactire.

16/05/2021

She had a fairly small litter but there are benefits for a first time mother in having a smaller litter.

16/05/2021

Finally got a girl @ 4:23 AM

16/05/2021

It seems like boys night here. Another male @ 3:17 AM. Looks like another blonde.

16/05/2021

Puppy #2 took awhile. He is a huge blonde male born at 12:52. I had to assist her with this delivery.

14/05/2021

The rough life of Wolfhounds at our house.

03/05/2021

And this is why we don’t recommend letting an Irish Wolfhound sleep in your bed. It can be cute when they are a puppy but sooner than you think possible, a 6-7 foot long, 150-200 pound dog will own the bed.

03/05/2021

When we wanted to start dog breeding, we were initially ignored by the breeders in several well know Irish Wolfhound Clubs. We first looked to them for guidance because they were the only clubs we knew existed. We read books and were basically left to learn dog breeding on our own. We had a background in livestock breeding. There is a considerable amount of overlap between breeding for quality, healthy livestock and breeding for quality, healthy dogs.

Then we found the National Irish Wolfhound Association and met some very experienced breeders there. They were a tremendous help to us, as we sought to improve Mactire Irish Wolfhounds and continued to focus on producing quality, healthy examples of the breed.

Now it is our turn to reach back and help one of our owners, who put in the effort to demonstrate that she wants to be a responsible breeder. We don’t just give full registration, with the associated AKC breeding rights to just anyone (as a recent inquirer has learned). But it is our pleasure to work with people, who are willing to put in the effort to learn enough about breeding so that they will be an asset to the Irish Wolfhound breed. The first litter from a dam we produced, but do not own, will be whelped in a few weeks. The dam’s owner has followed every instruction we gave her. She is still as nervous as any expectant mother. We will be helping her find good homes for these puppies. What a blessing it is to us, to be able to help someone, the way the breeders in the NIWA helped us. I’m not sure why many of the breeders in other Irish Wolfhound Clubs were unwilling to help or even talk to us when we first expressed an interest in breeding. Training up responsible breeders is how we protect the breed.

25/04/2021

Ri-Mactire is pretty black, with a little grey on the face but he has blonde hair like pony tails hanging from each ear. We think it is cute.

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