Irish Red & White Setters

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Comment by Dave Wittrick on February 25, 2009 at 8:13am

Falconry is my number one pastime and the next stage two years ago was to add a dog to my hunting team. I had always loved Irish Setters and had admired R&W at Game Fairs and so decided after lots of research to take on Toby from IR&WS Rescue and the rest as the say is history. A year and a half ago I joined the IR&WSC of GB and their Working Together group and have recently joined the working Sub Comity to try and help increase the numbers involved in working this under rated bread.

Comment by Rhona, Bruce n Lil Lucy Skene x on December 29, 2008 at 4:39pm

Comment by Rhona, Bruce n Lil Lucy Skene x on December 19, 2008 at 5:15pm

hello i have just got a brand new puppy from granaghburn over in ireland and she is the cutest ever. I thank Raymond for this puppy Granaghburns Wild Flower Lady Lucy and for everything. She is a pleasure to have in the family. She is very active and lovable and gets lots of cuddles off of us kids. She is trained and still learning more each day. I love taking her walks and exploring with her and my other Setter Bruce and we all get along like best friends. Thank you for reading

Comment by Chris Knight on September 26, 2008 at 2:25pm

Greetings !! It is good to find so many Red and White Setter enthusiasts .

Comment by Peri on August 27, 2008 at 4:58am

I now have my new IRWS pup- Summer is her name and she is my first pedigree dog- I am going to be doing showing, flyball and obedience with her. I also have 3 x breeds.

Comment by Susan Stone on August 11, 2008 at 5:56am

I don't own a R&W but would still be happy to join your group!

Comment by Fiorella Mathis on July 28, 2008 at 2:07pm

Fantastic

Comment by Silvia Lindner-Rae on July 20, 2008 at 1:08am

Hello!
IRWS dog Chaersiveen Celtic Music, age 10 1/2 months, went into his first show today and finished best junior. He stacked perfectly but running he thought he was a kangaroo. Mrs Doppelreiter thinks he is a very fine dog that needs some ring training before the next show.
We are very proud of the young man.

There were 3 IRWS entered:
dogs:
Chaersiveen Celtic Music in Junior, Limelanes Bolero in Intermediate
and bitches: Limelanes Birdy in Intermediate,
Celt was Best Junior, Bolero CAC, CACIB, BOB and Birdy VG1.
Oberwart is always very difficult: middle of summer and extremely hot insdoors and outdoors.
If you want to see the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.at/arthurthedog1411
Silvia

Comment by Christina Phillips on June 2, 2008 at 9:34am

PS. hopefully the DNA test for PPC will become reality soon and both CLAD and PPC should be history.......

Christina

Comment by Christina Phillips on June 2, 2008 at 9:24am

<<<<PPC was found in IRWS in the UK in the 1990s, but curiously I cant find any references to PPC in red Irish Setters? So why do you think it came into IRWS from the 1970's outcrosses
Very little PPC has been found in Irish bred dogs, compared with the UK stock. There is one line down from Snow King of Tormore , a son of Harlequin, which has a few cases of PPC, and another line down from a mating the Canon did with a UK dog Fieldtop Latest Edition (another Harlequin descendant) which has also produced a few cases of PPC. Otherwise PPC hasnt shown up in the working Irish dogs, which I suspect probably has something to do with them not having Harlequin (or very little Harlequin) in their pedigrees. In contrast the UK dogs have Harlequin as the bottleneck in their pedigrees, and he can occur 20 - 30 times in some UK pedigrees. Where PPC came from further back from Harlequin is difficult to guess. Have you any ideas?>>>>>>>>>>>
Margaret,
of course you are correct that no way of knowing if we did not have a few CLAD carriers in IRWS before the revival program ....and possibly the same for PPC and it being a dominate it only takes one dog...
If Harlequin is blamed, taking a close look at parents and grand parents ..........., be my move if I was to track a health issue.
Christina

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