Common domesticated dogs are found throughout Westeros and Essos. Their larger relatives include wolves and direwolves.
Hunting dogs are used throughout the world to help their masters track down wild game or fugitives. Wealthy nobles often employ a kennelmaster whose task is to look after the hunting hounds and oversee their training and well being.
The men of the Frozen Shore employ chariots made of walrus bone pulled by dogs.[1]
Notable dogs

One of the Bastard's girls.
- Bastard's girls - a pack of hunting dogs owned by Ramsay Snow, at the Dreadfort in the North. Ramsay has trained them to help him hunt the most dangerous game: he sets women loose in the forests around the castle, then tracks and kills them for sport.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels there are dogs throughout the known world. Dothraki khalasars are constantly followed by packs of feral dogs who feed on the corpses left behind by them. Meanwhile, the dogs bred by the men of the Frozen Shore to pull their bone chariots are said to be as big as direwolves.
References
Animals and plants of the known world | |
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Animals: |
Basilisk · Bear · Cat · Dog · Direwolf · Dragon · Horse (Dornish sand steed) · Lion · Old men of the river · Lizard-lion · Mammoth · Manticore · Raven · Shadowcat · Snow bear · Elephant · Dwarf elephant · Zorse |
Legendary and magical creatures: |
Grumkins and snarks · Harpy · Ice spider · Kraken · Macumber the blue-eyed giant · Mermaid · Nagga the Sea-Dragon · Sphinx · Ice dragon |
Plants: |
Weirwood · Milk of the poppy · Blue winter rose · Ghost grass · Dusk rose · Lady's Lace · Harpy's Gold |