My aunt had two of these beautiful dogs, she lived in America and got them both sent from Ireland. The breader was some one by the name of Kelly! not much help I myself wanted one a few years ago and searched the net there are quite a few breeders about, but they put me off as they said they would not chew a table leg they would eat one!.
I settled for a quiet Golden Retreiver dog which i thougth would keep my bitch company, man what a mistake, 30 + fence panels kitchen distroyed and anything he can get hold of from the garage etc, I have 250 foot rear garden for them to run in and he still wrecks anything and everything, (I am home all day aswell) I hope he grows out of it soon.
Good luck with your hunt
yep i could not agree more i had a collie lab cross and she was a nightmare chewed everything to bits pulled up carpet and thought it was her personal mission to escape from the garden no matter what i did to stop here even jumping onto the garage roof and onto the top of my van sliding down windscreen and running of down the road .Put up with this for 12 years and in the end put her out to retirement with a friend in dover ,still going strong now at 16 .So after that a irish wolf hound should be a doddle :)