Two wolfdogs who starred in Game of Thrones have driven a surge in the rare breed’s popularity. The owner of Odin and Thor, two Northern Inuit dogs who played direwolves in the HBO fantasy drama, has had an increasing number of enquiries about puppies and has turned down offers from celebrities wanting to buy the family pets. William Mulhall, from Co Down, said that his dogs, who have their own Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts and are insured for £1 million each, have met about 400,000 people in the past four years because of their roles as the direwolf pups Summer and Grey Wind in season one of Game of Thrones. Much of the television show is filmed on location at various sites in Northern…

Source: The Times December 29, 2017 00:01 UTC