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Sapochnik didn't specify where those other direwolves might've come from, since Ghost was the only pooch on the battlefield and even he got so little screentime that his fate was unclear by the end. Game of Thrones Stars Who Felt Just as Conflicted About Season 8 as You Did "At some point you're like, 50 direwolves attacking an undead dragon does not a good movie make." And there were many things that happened that people would've been so happy to have happen, attacks of direwolves, crazy stuff," he said. "It was a much bigger sequence than we shot. Weiss and David Benioff decided to trim a few things out of the script, including a massive fight that would've given our four-legged friends a lot more to do in the battle against the Night King's army. Gigantic in size, they stand out because of their resemblance to the wild wolf.In a chat with the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast (via Forbes), Sapochnik revealed that while prepping for his work on "The Long Night," he and co-creators D.B. They are good-natured, loyal dogs that are very attached to their owners. There are various associations exclusively dedicated to the development of this breed. The Northern Inuit is not accepted by the FCI as a standardized breed, but it is accepted by the British Kennel Club. It is estimated that the closest relatives of the Northern Inuit are the Siberian Husky, Alaskan Malamute, German Shepherd and Labrador Retriever. This breed first appeared between the 1970s and 1980s in Canada, but others say it developed in the United Kingdom. In real life, the dogs playing the Stark's direwolves are Northern Inuit dogs. When Ned is convinced of this, a sixth white puppy appears which is given to Jon, the illegitimate son. Far from wanting to kill them, Jon Snow asks Ned to let them live and give each of them to his five legitimate children, as the direwolf is the symbol of the Stark family. They appear for the first time when Lord Eddard Stark and his sons find a dead direwolf with her surviving cubs. It's supposed to be a close relative of the wolf, with a bigger and stronger build. In the books and TV series, this species is named " direwolf".
