{"id":30763,"date":"2025-07-08T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=30763"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:42:52","slug":"the-mighty-wolfhound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2025\/07\/08\/the-mighty-wolfhound\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to the Mighty Wolfhound"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I had to have my Irish wolfhound, Hawken Rifle Trail, euthanized. He was a great dog and a great friend. Very large breeds don’t live as long as smaller dogs, and he was very old, almost nine.<\/p>\n

\"Hawken<\/a>
Hawken and I take a walk on a summer day in 2023. Photo by Robert Stinson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This was Hawken on the day Abby and I got him in the spring of 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giving<\/a>
Giving Hawken a bath was a labor of love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dogs<\/a>
Dogs need us and we need them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Abby<\/a>
Abby puts her arms around Hawken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hawken<\/a>
Hawken loved walks, which we took every day, rain or shine. He loved kids. He was always happiest when the weather was cold. Photo by Robert Stinson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"In<\/a>
In the winter months, Hawken and I could walk for miles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Abby<\/a>
Abby and Hawken have a moment in the hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I never knew a gentler, more affectionate dog on the planet than Hawken, my Irish Wolfhound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I had to have my Irish wolfhound, Hawken Rifle Trail, euthanized. He was a great dog and a great friend. Very large breeds don’t live as long as smaller dogs, and he was very old, almost nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-the-truth-about-goats-and-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30763"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32785,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763\/revisions\/32785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}