Weekly Update Archive

[Gene]

I thought it might be good to post an archive of all the weekly updates.

It is another chance for me to thank certain members for their efforts promoting the site.

It allows new members to catch up on the growth and evolution of the site.

It allows new members to get visibility to some of the more remarkable discussions, photos, videos, etc. for the week.

[Gene]

Week 12 (and 11) Update - Posted September 30, 2007

Hi Everyone - Sorry for not getting a weekly update out last week but I just couldn't make time to do it. This is an attempt at a double issue to catch us all up. There may be more of these double issues in the future as my work hours will continue to be crazy through the end of November.

We added 13 new members over the last two weeks, pushing our numbers to 288. To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We added an additional 350 photos, taking us to over 3,800. To see and comment on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

After a brief lull, our video section is getting some uploads. We added 10 new videos, bringing us to 37.
- Monika Sliwinska of Poland provided us a video of Zambi and her warming up before her first
show.
- Agnieszka Rola of Poland uploaded a video of Conner winning a wrestling match with his
favorite blanket. She also uploaded another video of a dog playing that I had technical
problems watching. Hopefully, it plays for others.
- Charlotte Godart of Belgium uploaded a couple of nice videos from the Ostende CACIB dog
show complete with some sub-titles. They looked very professional. I wish I was that good
at video editing!
- I uploaded a video from the Irish Setter Club of Ft. Worth TX Specialty Show - September 23,
2007 that I know some of our members attended.
- Kasia Czapla of Poland, who may have the best collection of multi-Setter photos on this site,
showed us a trade secret in getting Setters to pose. I could NEVER get mine to do that!
- Jelena Kreitmayer of the USA uploaded a video of Lego in a fun dog fight with BFF Di.
- Ulla Oinas of Sweden also posted a fun dog fight/play video with a beautiful back drop. Ulla,
I would love to have the view out my back window that you do.

To see and comment on all of our videos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/video

The group continues to come up with interesting discussion topics in our forum.
- Susan Stone of Switzerland started on entitled “Are Irish Setters intelligent?’
- Ursula Wilby of Sweden started several interesting discussions:
* Irritating things that OTHER dog-owners do...
* What is your particular "Pet-hate" when it comes to faults?
* Retrieving setters?
- Loma Clark of the USA started “Stacking a dog”.
- Carmel Murphy of Ireland posted on entitled “Over trimming or shaving of the Show Irish Red
Setter?”
- Jessica Nay of of the USA started “Show vs Field/American vs Overseas”.

Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

We now have 14 groups. Yvonne’s Gordon Setter group is up to 10 proud members. Mistylake of Finland started Mistylake, which I assume is a kennel. Monica who I believe is from Canada started on for agility enthusiasts.

To see existing, join, or start a new group, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

The blogs continue to generate a lot of great activity. There was a lot of show activity reported:
- Frances McKimm of Belgium reported in on 'Carlow Championship Show, Ireland'.
- Claes Viviane of Belgium blogged on the Irish Setter Club of Belgium's Junior Day.
- Alenka Pokorn of Slovenia reported on a show in Gradiska, Bosnia September 15-16.
It was an interesting post to read because she included some details on the trip, the
weather, etc. that made the post come alive in addition to a great photo. Alenka also
blogged on the Innsbruck International, Austria on August 25.
- Loma Clark of the USA posted good show results from a show in Prescott, AZ.
- Vilja Vehkaoja of Finland blogged about Tessa's show results and plans for a litter.
- Yvonne of the Netherlands blogged on 'Championshipshow show Dutch Gordon Setter Club'
and included a photo of a couple great looking dogs.
- Amy Noyes of the USA blogged on her new champion, including a fabulous photo.
- W A Lauwers 'Daktyle' of Belgium reported on the 'Driffield Championship show, UK',
sharing some great pictures.
- Anne-Marie Hearn of Australia reported in on Carina’s double win in two “Royal” shows,
and included a super photo.

Several members also provided updates on puppies.
- Claes Viviane reported on two puppies for sale.
- Lena of Sweden posted from pictures from her 5-week old litter in the blogs and her
home page.
- Pauliina Artiola of Finland reported on plans for two litters in 2008 and included what
I assume are pics of the future dad and mom.
- Lise-Lotte Persson of Sweden reported in that Mr. Jingles (I love that name!) is a proud
poppa.
- Agnieszka Rola of Poland posted some adorable puppy photos of Conner’s first litter.

The hunters are posting good reports too!
- Sari of Finland posted a great hunting photo.
- Katariina Roiha of Finland reported in with several photos that I enjoyed looking at.

Other posts included:
- Jessica Nay of the USA provided an intro post. Jessica is a avid dog lover who is interested in
Setters and hopes to import a couple from Ireland next fall.
- Monica provided another update on her family's travels and activities, including trials and a
CKC (Canadian Kennel Club) show.
- Christiane Lohmann of Denmark cross-posted a couple of her blog postings both of which
had some great hi-res photos. Check them out at: http://micha.wordpress.com/
- Loma Clark reported that the brother of one of her dogs was cover boy on the AKC
Gazette. Check him out at: http://www.akc.org/pubs/gazette/
- Kasia Czapla of Poland posted a great puppy shot while on vacation.
- Jelena Kreitmayer of the USA recounted a story on Lego's trip to the dog park that will make
you sad and furious at the same time. Hope Lego is feeling better now.
- Ginger Kenney of the USA reported in on a more pleasurable trip to a no-leash dog park.
Sounds like CLG is settling in nicely and Ginger later reported that CLG may have found a
new forever home.
- Londa Warren of the USA provided an update to her horse training post from last month.
- Ursula Wilby of Sweden posted examples of her outstanding artwork. She is very talented and
was definitely one of my favorite blog posts because of its uniqueness.

To see all of this week’s blog postings, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

Have a great week.

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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[Gene]

Week 14 (and 13) Update - Posted October 14, 2007

Hi Everyone – Here’s another attempt at a double issue. My work hours are getting worse but hopefully for just another couple months. If you need something, it may be best to send me an email as I am not able to spend as much time on our site as I would like. And I am behind about 40 welcome emails as well. We did achieve a couple milestones this week – our 300th member and our 4,000th photo!

We added 16 new members over the last two weeks, pushing our numbers to 301. To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We added an additional 250 photos, taking us to over 4,050. To see and comment on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

We added 4 new videos bringing our numbers to 41:
- Diana van der Valk of the Netherlands posted ‘Setterbeach’, a great video of 7 Setters playing
in the surf and sand. I am glad my dogs were sleeping when I watched it because they would
have been extremely jealous. Those dogs looked like they were having the time of their lives!
- Fran Griffin of the UK posted ‘Tallulah does agility’. I have only seen one agility show in person
and Tallulah would have won it hands down.
- Michele Roche of Australia shared a video of Jessa having a blast with pine cones. And if that
is your side yard Michele you also have an incredible backyard view!
- Paula Rausch of the USA shared a video of ‘Jet and Hogan’ . Was it Jet or Hogan that was
enjoying the ‘giant drinking bowl’? :-)

To see and comment on all of our videos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/video

Discussion forums continue to generate opinions:
- Carmel Murphy of Ireland started one on ‘Over trimming or shaving of the Show Irish Red
Setter?
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary started ‘Funny faces in the ring - or elsewhere’.
- Ginger Kinney of the US started a couple new ones, one on ‘Separation Anxiety’ which I bet
a lot of members could contribute to, and one on ‘FCI STANDARD- Size changes put in
place?’.
- Ursula Wilby of Sweden started one on ‘irritating things other dog owners do’.
- Susan Stone of Switzerland has a couple that everyone could participate in, ‘Why do you
own an Irish Setter?’ and ‘Are Irish Setters intelligent?’.
- Lena of Sweden started one on ‘Black in Coat on Red Setters’.
- Monique Viry of France, started a thread titled ‘Quel avenir pour le setter irlandais en France ?’
I enjoyed reading, or at least trying to follow along.
- Katariina Roiha of Finland started one entitled ‘Problems’ and other members reported other
site issues. Maybe we could use this to share issues we are having with our site and
suggestions on how to fix.

Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

Also, I noticed some of the groups have discussions going on as well. I will try and remember to report in on them next time.

To see existing, join, or start a new group, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

Our blog continues to generate lots of activity. Show reports included:
- Carmel Murphy of Ireland reported that Darby has qualified for Crufts 2008
based on a great showing at a recent show in Belfast.
- Yvonne Joerling of Austria blogged about Bundesiegerschau Tulln 2007
and included some nice photos.
- Kasia Czapla of Poland posted results from the CACIB Rostock show.
- Brad Porterfield of the USA posted good results for fellow member Mary Merlo and him at
a recent show.
- Alenka Pokorn of Slovenia posted on a Romanian show and included
some great photos.
- Susan Stone of Switzerland posted on behalf of some of our shy members,
‘Bundessieger Dortmund 12.10.07’. W A Lauwers 'Daktyle' of Belguim, one of the winners,
followed up Susan’s blog with more details.

Puppy news is popular:
- Piret of Estonia reported in on her new litter of 11. Hope that Jente
and the pups are getting better...and we are going to need to see some
photos soon...;-)
- Lena of Sweden posted photos of her 6 1/2 week old litter.
- Lise-Lotte Persson of Sweden posted photos of Tea feeding
Mr. Jingles' kids. I will go on record as saying Mr. Jingles may
be my favorite dog name. I hope to own my own Mr. Jingles
one day.
- Marjo Tuomola of Finland told us about their plans for Tessa’s first litter.

Hunting continues to have action as the season gets in full swing:
- Sari of Finland provided us a couple great photos of the ‘Big Hunter’ and
the catch. She also announced some planned litters. If I am reading it
right, it sounds like Mr. Jingles is going to be a granddad!?!
- Katariina Roiha of Finland informed us on how hunting season was going
and provided some great photos. I getting an appreciation of what a beautiful
country Finland is from all our Finnish members’ photos.

Other posts included:
- Ulrike Reder-Marko of Austria posted a precious photo of new
daughter Ina, the two-legged version. Congrats go out to the Marko family.
- Ginger Kinney of the USA reported that CLG found what hopefully is her
forever home.
- Harriet of the Netherlands posted about a problem with an ear sucking dog.

To see all of this week’s blog postings, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

Go rub your dogs’ ears for me.

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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[Gene]

Week 16 (and 15) Update - Posted October 28, 2007

Hi Everyone - Here' another double update. It’s with a heavy heart that I report that another red head went to Setter heaven yesterday. McBIRDY - Jean DUHANT of Belgium blogged on the loss of Belgian, German, Lux. Champion Yuelynn of McBirdy. Thoughts and prayers to the McBirdy/Duhant family from Texas and all our 300+ members from 30+ countries.

We added 12 new members over the last two weeks, pushing our numbers to 313. To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We added an additional 300 photos, taking us to almost 4,400. To see and comment on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

We added 3 new videos, bringing our total to 44.
- Loma Clark of the USA shared a video entitled ‘114 degrees outside’. What a great looking group of dogs and Loma, your yard looks great when you consider that temperature. I didn’t realize grass could look that nice in the Arizona heat.
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary shared a couple videos. One of Danka entertaining herself with a ball until something else caught her attention. Another entitled hunting in the woods where Laura shows great camera skills keeping up with the dogs.

There were several show reports on our blog:
- W A Lauwers 'Daktyle' of Belgium reported on the 'Bundessieger, Dortmund 12.10 ( 2 x CACIB show)' and the great showing by their dog, Sumaric Shadow of Mr. Jingles. Sari of Finland gave in update on a planned litter with Sumaric Shadow of Mr. Jingles. Both included an outstanding photo of the dog.
- Johanna Holm of Finland reported that Eppu is prepared for Lahti international all breed show (Saturday 28.10.2007).
- Johanna Blacklake of Finland blogged on ‘Nice results from the Seinäjoki International (Finland)’.
- McBIRDY - Jean DUHANT of Belgium announced a new Belgian & International Show Champion: Cheyenn of McBirdy ! Congrats!
- Carmen Lorenzi of Switzerland posted shows results from CACIB Lausanne 21.October.
- Zsuzsanna Lesko of Hungary reported in on the Budapest CACIB '07 Oct 21 show.
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary reported on her long weekend, taking in the Budapest double international shows and then the field trials held by the Pointer club.
- Sanna Kopola of Finland reported on Dennis BOB & Group-4 in Siauliai.
- Nadine Bonjean of Belgium also reported on the Budapest double international shows.
- Frances McKimm of Belgium blogged on a puppy show and shared a nice photo.
- Philippe Deram of France reported in on CH : Tulssye du " Cap de l' Emeraude " and shared an outstanding photo.
- Anna Wymyslowska of Poland reported in on CAC Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki – results and uploaded a great picture.

Puppy (one of my favorite areas) postings were in full swing:
-Anna Saturnii Cartoon's of Belgium announced that they are expecting to receive some Irish Setter puppies. She also posted additional photos, including a one of an adorable Gordon Setter puppy and a great one of her and one of her Gordon's after a successful show.
- Sian Thomas of France is a proud mum with a new generation of Dawnmaen puppies, including a great photo of the four-legged mum nursing the litter and a striking photo of the four-legged dad.
- Yvonne of the Netherlands posted show photos of some award winning Setters.
- Beata Gnyp of Poland announced she has two new female puppies in her kennel, one Gordon and one red and white. Both are very cute! Beata also has a great profile photo of 3 Red & White and 2 Gordon Setters.
- Lise-Lotte Persson of Sweden posted a couple times on puppies. One on my friend Mr. Jingles and the other has an awesome shot of Teas litter.
- Renata Olszewska of Poland shared some adorable photos of some of their new litter.
- Piret of Estonia reported on Jente puppies.
- Pam Seipkes of the USA shared her blog which is following their puppies’ growth and has a lot of great pics. Check it out at: http://flamexemilio.blogspot.com/
- Kasia Czapla of Poland shared some Dortmund Bundessieger 2007 photos.

Hunting/Field work posts included:
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary blogged on shy member Petra's dog Andy, who won the field and water hunt test and included some excellent action photos.
- Henk ten Klooster of the Netherlands posted on young dogs a 'Finding First Feathers'. The dog in the photo he shared looks to be having a great time.
- Katariina Roiha of Finland posted some hunting photos with snow! I enjoyed reading the comments on the post as well. And yes, Katariina, I am glad your blog is working again! :-) She also reported on another successful hunting trip.

In other posts included:
- Ginger Kenney of the US reported that CLG finally found her forever home!
- Johanna Blacklake of Finland announced a new site for Derwish Gandalf a.k.a. Roope has a new site at www.gandalf.fi.

We are up to 15 groups with Michelle Webster of the UK starting one on called Twoacres for all those lucky owners of Irish Setters with Twoacres breeding. To see, join, or start a group, go to:
http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

There were a couple new discussion posts started, bringing our total to 68.
- Lena of Sweden started one on black coat on a Red Setter.
- Loma Clark of the USA started one on Mandatory Spay & Neuter.

Prior posts continue to be popular:
- Monique VIRY of France started what may be our most popular post to date, Quel avenir pour le setter irlandais en France ?
- Ginger Kenney of the USA started a post on FCI STANDARD- Size changes put in place?
- An old post of mine, Memorial/Tribute Thread for all of our Dogs that have passed (waiting at the Bridge), got dug out of the archives and got some replies. We had 24 members from 10 countries when I originally posted it July 10.

Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

Go rub your dogs’ belly(s) for me.

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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[Gene]

Week 18 (and 17) Update - Posted November 11, 2007

Hi Everyone - Here' another double update.

We added 9 new members over the last two weeks, pushing our numbers to 322. It's great to see so many new members posting profile photos. One of my favorite ones is the agility one from Jane Guidinger. Be sure and check it out. To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We added an additional 300 photos, taking us to over 4,700. To see and comment on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

We added 6 new videos, bringing our total to 50.
- Marta Galuszka and Agnieszka Rola, both of Poland, each posted fun videos of two dog having big fun in the water.
- Mary S. of the USA posted one of Duke and Abby in a tug-of-war contest.
- Yvonne of the Netherlands shared a video of Pelle in the ring. Pelle just looks like a fun, personality-filled dog who enjoys the ring.
- Jean en Rita Struyf-De Groof of Belgium shared a video that was really a photo slide show of their great looking dogs…some of a litter and some of adult dogs.
To see all the great videos, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/video

There were many blog postings. I ready the one from Kristina Brannlund Westin of Sweden with great sadness. Kristina reported that both Amadeus and Vera went to the Rainbow Bridge in the last couple weeks. You and your families are in our online community's thoughts and prayers, Kristina.

We had several show posts:
- Vilja Vehkaoja of Finland reported on the Lahti INT show.
- Mojca Novak of Slovenia blogged on the 'CAC Maribor, Slovenia 14.10.2007' and shared a couple great photos. Mojca also reported in on 'CACIB Mantova, Italy 27.10.2007'.
- Dorothee Durieux of Belgium provided a report on the Young Dogs and Veterans Day of the Liege Kennel Club, Belgium.
- Zsuzsanna Lesko of Hungary blogged on 'Budapest CACIB '07 Oct 21' and included some nice photos of KO and her.
- Anne-Marie Hearn of Australia provided show results from the 'Irish Setter Club of Victoria (Australia)" Carina " Best In Show' and shared a great photo of one of her dogs.
- Jeanette Bostroem of Denmark blogged on the ‘Bestenfee, Germany Pointer and Setter Show’, providing a great pic and a link for more details - http://www.kenneldiscovery.se
As well as hunting...
- Katariina Roiha of Finland (who has a great background photo on her personal page) shared several great photos from a recent hunting trip. My dogs would love to go hunting!
- Henk ten Klooster of the Netherlands shared some great outdoor photos across several blog posts. My favorite was the color photo of about a dozen Setters and their people.
- Jelena Kreitmayer of the USA reported that Lego got his JH title. And if you get a chance, check out the photo Lego and the kitten on Jelena's personal page in her Exclusively Setters box.
And puppies...
- Anna/Saturnii Cartoon's of Belgium shared an adorable photo of her new puppies.
- Marcella Booij of the Netherlands announced their J-litter for next year and posted some great photos of the future mom and dad.
- Lise-Lotte Persson of Sweden reported in on Tea & Mr. Jingles puppies, sharing a super photo.
- Sari of Sweden shared some new photos of their 10 month old girl, Miss Behaving Of The Red Empire. What a great dog name!
- Judi Schuerman of the USA took suggestions of Irish and Celtic names for her new puppy.
- Mistylake of Finland provided some great photos of their 5 month old Gordon Setter pups.
- Pauliina Artiola of Finland announced a planned 2008 litter and shared some outstanding photos of the future mom and dad.
- Sian Thomas of France provided an update on their litter of 12 and shared a couple cute pics.
Other blog posts included:
- Ginger Kinney confirmed that CLG found her forever home! She sounds like the typical Irish Setter bed hog! :-)
- Sara Åkerström of Sweden posted an introductory blog and shared some great photos of her and her dogs and a beautiful scenic picture from her home town. Welcome Sara!
- Vilja Vehkaoja of Finland shared some great photos of Tessa and Balou.

One thing I noticed on the blogs. Some people are just posting on their page and not the main page. If you want more people to read your blog postings and get more comments, please make sure to post it on the main page as well! :-)

Looks like we held pat at 15 groups. To see, join, or start a group, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

There were 5 new discussion posts started, bringing our total to 73. New ones included:
- Agnieszka Dufrat of Poland started a topic for us to share problems or suggestions on our site, called ‘This site - proposals / remarks / problems’. She has some good ideas on how to extend the functionality of the site. Once my workload calms down, we’ll work together to take a look at this.
- Sussie Larsson of Sweden started ‘nationel/internationel or inofficiell dogshows?’
- Marcella Booij of the Netherlands started a great thread - ‘Can you name 10 things you love and/or hate about your dog ?’ I hope to join this one this week.
- Susan Stone of Switerland started 'Do your setter girls come in season together?'
- I started one called 'Dog Humor' where we can all dig through our email inbox archives and share dog jokes, stories, and photos.

Older threads included:
- Gina Hayes' 'Therapy Dog and Freestyle Work'
- Loma Clark's 'Mandatory Spay and Neuter'
- Monique Viry’s ‘Quel avenir pour le setter irlandais en France?’
- Lena's 'Black in coat on red setters'

Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

On my catchup list for the site is to go through the latest 4,000 photos, catchup on the discussions in the groups, and listen to some of the music you all have uploaded. Unfortunately, the home PCs speakers are not working at present but hope to fix that soon.

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

Go pat your dogs’ head(s) for me.

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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[Gene]

Week 20 (and 19) Update - Posted November 25, 2007

Hi Everyone - Here's another double update. Hopefully, we’ll get back to a normal schedule in January.

We added 11 new members over the last two weeks, pushing our numbers to 333. To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We uploaded an additional 300 photos, taking us to over 4,900. To see and comment
on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

We added 3 new videos, bringing our total to 53.
- Vilja Vehkaoja of Finland uploaded a fun video of 3 dogs playing in the snow. And near the end, you can see all 3 are better on leads than either of mine!
- Charlotte Godart of Belgium shared two new videos, ‘Eurodogshow Courtrai (B) "Junior dog"’ and ‘Eurodogshow Courtrai (B) "Junior bitch"’. I am very glad that she added sub-titles since my PC’s audio capability is still out. It was nice to see member’s dogs or dogs from member’s kennels in action and doing well.
To see all the great videos, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/video

The blogs were active as usual. Jelena Kreitmayer of the USA had a fabulous idea – a holiday card exchange. She even created a group for this. Please check it out if you are interested.

There were several reports from the shows:
- Renata Olszewska of Poland provided a report on the ‘International Dog Show for the Middle and Eastern European Cup’ and included a couple special photos.
- Beata Gnyp of Poland blogged on the ‘CACIB Poznań 10-11.11.2007 - International Dog Show for the Middle and Eastern European Cup’ and added a couple great photos of her Gordon and Red & White Setters.
- Jenny Karlsson of Sweden reported on her ‘Two new Champions! VDHCH Brilliant Bronze Bryan of Boyne and Kbhv-06 Nordv-06 VDHCH Brilliant Bronze Cutty Sark’ with nice photos of each.
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary inquired on the ‘Piet Roks Jonge Honden Dag’ which I think is a show in the Netherlands. She also reported in on the ‘Bestensee Pointer and Setter CAC show’ and included a link to photos of every dog in the show
http://pointer-setter-berlin.de/Ausstellungen_Historie/Hr2007/Bestensee_Hr_2007.html
- Agnieszka Dufrat of Poland provided results from ‘International Dog Show for the Middle and Eastern European Cup – results’ and provided a link to some photos -
http://portal.seterkowo.org/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemi...
- Philippe Deram of France provided some photos of Chiva and Cyrano.
- Dorothee Durieux of Belgium blogged about ‘11 November 2007 - "PIET ROKS JONGEHONDENDAG ISC" (NETHERLANDS)’.
- Frances McKimm of Belgium reported that her ‘Charmed wins at big International Show 'Eurodogshow' 18th Nov’.
- Pauliina Artiola of Finland posted results from ‘MINSK 2 x CACIB’.

Puppies were a popular topic:
- Piret of Estonia uploaded a cute photo of smallest puppy of her 6-week old litter Stella with her uncle Ruudi.
- Saturnii Cartoon of Belgium shared some “G” litter photos. The Newfoundland pup threw me but I am glad that Didi is a willing Mum.
- Lise-Lotte Persson of Sweden provided a 7 week update on Tea’s puppies and then later uploaded a great photo of one of Tea’s puppies.
- Marcella Booij of the Netherlands shared a great photo of the “D” litter pups. I really liked the one of her boy on the couch.
- Judi Schuerman of the USA was 8 days from puppies about 7 days ago. Looking forward to some pics Judy! She later posted on ‘puppy proofing’ her house.
- Vilja Vehkaoja of Finland announced they are doubling their puppy plans for 2008.

Other posts included:
- Ulrike Reder-Marko of Austria shared some great photos of the first snow from her parent’s house. My dogs are jealous since they have never even seen snow.
- Zsuzsanna Lesko of Hungary sent out Birthday wishes to Jeffy.
- Ursula Wilby of Sweden shared with us the cover of her latest book, “Life between dogs and cats…”

We added two new groups, bringing our total to 17:
- Christiane Lohmann of Denmark created one called ‘HuntingIrishSetters’ and already has 11 members.
- Jelena Kreitmayer of the USA created ‘Holiday Card Exchange 2007’ and has 15 members so far.
To see, join, or start a group, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

There were new and existing discussion topics in the forum, taking our total to 76:
- Bill Fowler of the USA let us know about the sad passing of Steve Adams. The Houston Irish Setter Club has started a fund to assist surviving wife Denise and their 10 Irish Setters. Go to
http://www.irishsetterclubofhouston.org/ if you are interested in donating.
- Christiane Lohmann of Denmark started one titled ‘CHAMPIONS LEAGUE POINTER + SETTER Germany 2007’
- Henk ten Klooster of the Netherlands started ‘American Red Setter War raging’.

Existing threads still getting activity included:
- Monique Viry of France started what is I think the most popular discussion thread on our site, ‘Quel avenir pour le setter irlandais en France ?’
- Susan Stone of Switzerland started ‘Do your setter girls come in season together?’
- My ‘Dog Humor’ post had some great additions.
Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

On an unrelated note, I recently joined Facebook and found several of you on there. Thought we could connect there as well.

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

Go rub your dogs’ ears for me.

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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[Gene]

Week 22 (and 20) Update - Posted December 9, 2007

Hi Everyone - Here's another double update. Looks like my work schedule will be extended through January. I still have dreams of participating in the site!

We added 5 new members over the last two weeks, pushing our numbers to 338. We even had Minnie "The Intruder" join us! :-)

To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We hit a Photo milestone, going over 5,000 photos!!! We uploaded an over 250 photos, taking us to over 5,150. To see and comment
on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

We added 15 new videos, bringing our total to 68.
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary shared one of 'Danka running on the outskirts of Mohács'. She also uploaded one of Danka trying to motivate some older dogs to play.

- Charlotte Godart of Belgium shared 3 show videos from the Eurodogshow Courtrai (Belgium). She also posted a 'Happy Family' video that must have taken forever to upload but I enjoyed watching it. The best part for me was the stick chase and into the woods at the very end.

- Krisztina Borsanyi of Hungary (who has a great pic on her profile page) uploaded several funny videos. One called 'Who's the real hunter in the family?:)))' that shows a cat playfully attacking a Setter and getting the best of the dog. The sequel video was Felix and Minci, who look like great play partners. The water video was funny as well.

- Gennadi of Russia shared a video of 'Troy in the field'. Troy was having big fun, let me tell you.

- Paula Rausch of the USA uploaded videos of Hogan and Finnegan and a 'goofing' video. Unfortunately, neither one would play for me. Hopefully, others had better success.

- Lofty of Poland shared two videos, both entitled 'CAC Nowa Ruda'. It was interesting because I had never seen the judges set up in the middle of the ring.
To see all the great videos, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/video


The blogs were active as usual. It's with a sad heart that I share Laura Kolbach's report on the passing of Emese's best (4-legged) friend, 'Dr. Robin'. In reading the comments, it was obvious that Robin was a legendary Setter whose life and lineage has and will continue to touch a lot of lives. Thoughts and prayers from everyone at Exclusively Setters to Emese.



The show scene is busy as ever:

- The Amsterdam show proved to generate several contributions. Harriet of the Netherlands reported in on Reddins Elliot’s performance. She later came back and shared a great looking photo from the show. Laura Kolbach of Hungary followed up posting show results. Yvonne of the Netherlands shared some great show pics of her Irish and Gordons.

Dorothee Durieux of Belgium provided a trip report on the show. Marcella Booij of the Netherlands shared an update on Willow's showing.

- Anne-Marie Hearn of Australia shared a striking photo of Foggy after another BOG showing. She also shared 'Great International news for Pendoric!'

- Cecilia Guiot of France reported on Appleton gaining the first part of agility patent (1st degree).
- Philippe Deram of France shared a super photo of 'Cyrano du Cap de l' Emeraude'.
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary shared a trip report on '01.12.2007 Wels CACIB, Austria, day 1'. Congrats on Danka's great showing!
- Diane Fitzpatrick of Canada reported on 'Am.Ch.Beaubriar Premier Event at The AKC Eukanuba Classic Show'.
- McBIRDY - Jean DUHANT of Belguim (who has an incredibly scenic photo in the header of his profile page) reported in on 'Fletcher of McBirdy: CACS/CACIB - BOB - BIG3 Rouen (F) - Juge: Mr. Riva (F)'.
- Lofty of Poland blogged on 'CAC Nowa Ruda 02-12-2007'

Puppies reports continued to come in:
- Marcella Booij of the Netherlands shared some absolutely adorable pics of Connor's kids.
- Sari of Finland announced that they were expecting puppies this January and uploaded nice pics of the future dad and mom.
- Pauliina Artiola and Vilja Vehkaoja, both from Finland, reported on on their respective 2008 puppy plans and shared some great pics.
- Nenad Mocorka reported in on 9 'New puppies in Red Irish Dream Kennel'.
- Sjoerd Jobse of Sweden announced 'Puppies in 2008 at kennel Caemgen's'.
- Frances McKimm Frances McKimm of Belguim reported in on 'The very first pup for Dreamdance in the Trawricka Kennel, Belgium' and shared an AMAZING photo that you have to check out.

Other posting included:

- Michaela of Germany shared photos of Chili's first contact with snow.

- Henk ten Klooster of the Netherlands??? shared a story entitled 'Mother learns young Bram trialling' and shared a great pic of a setter retrieving a bird.

- Annie, one of Judi Schuerman of the USA's dogs, shared a welcome post. Roo-Roo Annie! I enjoyed your write-up. Annie then reported in from her new dog house in Idaho. Don't worry Annie, you'll be jumping up in that chair in no time! Annie also reported on her first visit to her trainer. I am sure she will have her trainer trained in no time. And I love the '100 people in 100 days' idea for socialization purposes.

This is the second update with no reports from the hunting scene. I guess they are all out in the woods!!! While I am about 4,000 photos behind, I did notice one from Katariina Roiha of Finland entitled 'our pack of Setters' that I enjoyed looking at. I saw in looking at the Google Maps locator that Katariina and her clan live at the very top of Finland. They are now experiencing the Polar nights and it appears to be quite cold. I get a kick out of the dog owners where I live here in Dallas who put sweaters or coats on their little dogs when it is 50 degrees Farenheit (10 degrees Celsius). I would bet it would humor Katariina even more so.

To start, comment, or view our blog postings, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

There were new and existing discussion topics in the forum, taking our total to 82:
- Laura Kolbach of Hungary started 'Regulations for tests and trials'.
- Georgianne Carney of the USA reported in on Tessy’s performance in ‘Best in Show for my Ch. Dancin Fasination’.
- Henk ten Klooster of the Netherlands started 'AKC strips winning Dutch red and white setter'.
- Mavis of Canada started one on 'Facebook' which is a larger more generic social network than this one. Several
of us are connecting their as well. Related to this, some of you have sent me Facebook stuff. I have the emails
saved but I am new to Facebook and I am in the middle of another push at work. In fact, I have written most of this
edition this weekend while at work. I hope to check out what people have sent me soon.
- Gennadi of Russia let us know about a great book on Irish Setters. Looks like several members order it. I have sent
them an email to see if I have any way to get it over here.
- I started one called 'Dog News/Stories' where we can share generic dog news.
Older posts are still generating interest:
- (Switerland's) Susan Stone's 'Do your setter girls come in season together?'
- (The Netherlands') Henk ten Klooster’s ‘American Red Setter War raging’
- (France's) Monique Viry's 'Quel avenir pour le setter irlandais en France ?'
Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

Our groups held at 17. To see, join, or start a group, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

Go rub your dogs’ belly for me.

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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[Gene]

Week 23 Update - Posted December 16, 2007

Hi Everyone - Here's a quick update before the holidays.

We stood pat at 338 on members. To see and greet our new members, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/friend/list

We broke the 5,200 photo barrier this week. To see and comment on all of the great photos, go to http://irishsetters.ning.com/photo

We added 7 new videos, bringing our total to 75.
- Charlotte Godart of Belgium uploaded 5 videos from the CACIB Dog Show in Genk, Belgium.
- Brad Porterfield of the USA uploaded 2 videos from the 'Battle of New England'.
To see all the great videos, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/video

There were several neat blog posts this week. Just when I comment about the lack of hunting blog posts, Katariina Roiha of Finland comes through with some polar-night hunting photos. I agree with Henk's comment that this site is a virtual vacation and we are e-tourists.

There were several reports from the shows:
- Charlotte Godart of Belgium blogged on 'CACIB Dog Show Genk Belgium' and included a couple nice photos. She also uploaded 5 videos of some of the winning dogs.
- W A Lauwers 'Daktyle' of Belgium provided a trip report on 'LKA, UK 08/12'. Check out the great pictures of his young son Jeremy and his dogs too!
- Kasia Czapla of Poland reported in on the same show 'LKA Championship Show December 8th'.
- McBIRDY - Jean DUHANT of Belgium blogged on ' Fletcher & Frisbee of McBirdy: Best Irish Red Setter Juniors 2007 in Belgium'.
- Frances McKimm of Belgium blogged on 'Trawricka Irish Setters proudly present 'Champion Charmed Top Irish Setter in Belgium 2007'.
- Dorothee Durieux of Belgium blogged on 'GENK CACIB - 8th december 2007'.

There were a couple of puppy announcements:
- Nenad Mocorka announced 9 new puppies and shared a spectacular pic of the parents.
- (Anna) Saturnii Cartoon's of Belgium looks like she graduated for Kasia's 'school of getting multiple Setters to pose like a calendar photo'. She shared some super photos and the group one is greatness!
- Marcella Booij of the Netherlands shared some great 5 week old photos of Conner's puppies.

Laura Kolbach of Hungary blogged on Odin's birthday party, including sharing the recipe for the cake! The pics and the cake were awesome!

To start, comment, or view our blog postings, go to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

There were new (2) and existing discussion topics in the forum, taking our total to 84. New ones included:
- Kristin of the USA started 'Coat Care and Health'.
- Mary S. of the USA started 'Is there Afghan in some show setters?'.
Join in the discussion by going to: http://irishsetters.ning.com/forum

Our groups held at 17. To see, join, or start a group, go to:
http://irishsetters.ning.com/groups

Don’t forget to invite your Setter friends if you haven’t already.

This may be the last update this year. I was going to dig up how to say 'Merry Christmas!' in a bunch of language translations but I thought we could do this on a discussion thread I am getting ready to start.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Gene
Exclusively Setters
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