Bonjour Catherine, je suis ravie de vous parler en français car moi et l'anglais... difficiles ! Vos chiens sont magnifiques ! J'adore les irlandais et se sont les setters que je préfére après les Gordon ! Vous êtes en Grande Bretagne ou en Hollande ?
En France nous ne trouvons pas de "rouges" aussi beaux que sur ce site !

Je serais ravie de vous rencontrer lors d'un passage en Bourgogne et comme je suis en retraite, j'ai du temps de libre et si vous avez besoin de mon aide pour rechercher une maison... n'hésitez pas !
En France, on se bat pour que le standard du Gordon ne bouge pas ! Je les aime beaux et bons, les deux ne sont pas incompatibles !
Vos irlandais sont comme je les aime : typés ! En France, on voit trop des "renards" !
Amicalement,

Hello Catherine,
Hope you and yours are all well!
We actually refer to Shannon as 'Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear...' a childhood song that stuck for over 40 years;-))

Hello Catherine and thank you for your comments.
YOur photos have a heart.I had to smile.Lovely and crazy setters, doesn´t matter if they are young or old.
Many greetings from Bratislava.
Reni

Hello Catherine.
Love your photos! They show setter as they are: playfull, happy and outgoing.

Greetings from Slovenia,
Kristina

Thank you so much for that, this site has been a great comfort at this time, everyone is so kind, I got her back AGAIN, she was in again yesterday, but this time we have, I hope, got it sussed, it seems that her innards are not quite where they should be, it is rather worrying, but she seems, at the moment to be getting over it, operating on them is dangerous at the best of times, but when it is totally unnecessary, I think that makes it worse, but thank you again Dee and the girls

Hi there hope you can open mine!!!!!! thanks for the info Dee and the girls

Hello Catherine, thanks for your kind remarks! It really was agood day and a friendly atmospehere. You are welcome anytime!!!

That's great Catherine! I bet you've heard about the training weeks organized by Peter & Geraldine up north?
Good luck with your boy
Susan

Just 10 mins, what more can you ask!

Glen only retrieves cold game so far... not enough practice!

hello Catherine, I have been trying to get the adresse in a blog-post now and it is totally impossible...so it seems. At least impossible to make it "clickable". And no it was NOT you, I could not make it work either...

Ill try it on your page, might get lucky this time :-)

Oh well...so much for luck.
It did not even show up on the comment below....just vanished into thin air!
Ill just type it as it is and you can copy and paste...

http://www.irishredsetter.net/

Thanks for saying hello. Yes, my dogs came from Judi. Small world!
kay

Hi there Catherine
Just wanted to say a VERY BELATED Happy new year, to you and yours. Will you be at Crufts? Maybe see you there although I will be at the other end of the rings to you..
Hope to see you there Dee and the girls

Hello Catherine!
It would be so sad if this site only catered for one side, its the world-wide mix and setter-owners with many different types of dogs/activities that make this site what it is! :-)

Thank you so much Catherine!

Hi Catherine,
Thanks for the welcoming. I like your kids. Especially the one on the right in the September pic above! And I love the tons of chest hair on both.

I used to live in the south of England (Epsom), so I know what a small admount of snow does...:-)
Strange enough, living in the south of Sweden, we have had no snow whatsoever this winter...so you are leading so far!

Yes, I liked that photo, it was so very much "irish"!

Hello Catherine,

Yes I remember all those setters, good memories!

Tamarisk - just before this line became extinct here, there was sperm collected by a friend of Tamarisk Tarragon of Duskhunter, but it failed.

It was a sad scene - most of my friends active in those lines died young, one in a plane crash.

Some were good duals some not. So intrested what the training at your place will offer. Keep me informed!

Do me favor by e-mailing a few pedigrees to Info@Iersesetter.com Will appreciate that!

Groeten-Henk.

No I know that this time, its a fair lot of snow. The difference is that in a country like Sweden I drive around with studded winter-tyres from end november (no use whatsoever this year) and in England you drive on summer-tyres all the year round.
We are expecting nasty roads, you are not...also I am horrified with the number of cars in England. The motorways blocked even on a "good" day. I can imagine the total disaster!
Every time I am over I am amazed at the fact that I took my driving test in London...I doubt if I would last 30 minutes now!
So yes, stay put!
The only sensible thing to do!

Bonjour Catherine,
Vous avez autant de neige en Angleterre que chez nous en Alsace !!! Mes chiens ont joué dans le verger et courru dans la campagne. Nos setters sont comme les enfants : ils adorent la neige !!!
Gare au verglas !!! Chez nous froid sec comme les autres jours et donc moins de saletés dans la maison :-))

Hi Catherine!

Oh yes I did see on the news that you had a lot of snow, and the dogs love it. Up here in the north of Sweden we have 60 centimeters of snow and 15 degrees below zero. A perfect Februariday!

hello, sent you a private message yesterday, did you receive it?

yesyes! will write more in the evening!

Hello Catherine,

Sounds you live in a setters hunting paradise in south England!!! I will probably need to go for a week to France this month training youngsters. Luckily with a very experienced dam, a thrill on point. She did all so rough shooting, falconry (waiting on) and trials three EC's.

Last time we were in south England was collecting a Sandgate youngster for friends, after I took H. Ashley from Matlock, their mothers were sisters. Loooooooong time ago and luckily a week before planned date because last was when the Herald of Free Enterprise sunk.

I'm interested in pedigrees of all your present dogs not present in the Lena Armgard database, if that isn't too much work.

There is a friend here big farm huge area with wild partridge who is still more or less mourning this type became extinct in the Netherlands! He has a ft bred one now from me eleven years but the preceding one 100% H/B line still calls "my very best"!!! That is one reason I am very interested...

Heyhi Catherine, strange that e-mail address Info@Iersesetter.com does not work for you, there is a lot arriving. Another one is Henkloos@wxs.nl When it arrives it will sure make interesting reading!!! Henk.

yes, yes, but had a busy weekend (again) and no time yet to answer, mail to you arrives soooon!

or maybe just a system bug :-)

Pozdrawiamy z Warszawy

Greetings from Warsaw. Super dogs!!

I am so sorry Catherine,. My Gordon had not only terrible HD but also suffered tumours like your beloved Billy. My first dog Athos died of cancer, as well.
I noticed you lost Anna a year ago.. SO MUCH sadness. I am thinking of you a lot. I do remeber your kind comments when my Gordon died.

Cairo is my friends dog. They are on holiday now. I ve got him only for one week
Sweet tender baby.
.

LOTS of Love and BIG HUG
Reni

- Do you think Catherine is angry on mum for still not replying on her post?

Wow I love your set up. Mine have to go into the bath, they hate it, that would be so much easier, for them and me....I do hope that it helped you. I know that it gets messy, but it is all worth it in the end, I kind of feel that you take a lot out of their coats, (natural oil's etc) when we bath them so we need to put something back, and if you can get hold of the Avon, then just occasionally spray his 'willy feathers' with it, they won't get dry and brake off quite as much as they usually will. I spray Jas between the back legs with it every now and then, for the same reason. Can't wait to see him in a couple of weeks....
Dee and the girls.

I have a garage that one day I will turn into a grooming room, I wish I could have it now because the bath kills my back...and getting them in there is a battle. Jas hates being bathed, and fights me all the way, and she is no feather weight.
I am glad that some of the tips work. I don't have a dog at the moment so don't have to worry about when the girls are in season. Though if Saffy has puppies I hope to be keeping a dog so will have to start worrying about that kind of thing....

Bonsoir Catherine,
Je suis heureuse d'apprendre que le banc de Girly sera près du vôtre.
Car un petit coup de main en anglais sera le bien venu ;-)
Je prend le tunnel vendredi après-midi (plus rapide) et je dors à l'hôtel pour deux nuit.
Je suis accompagnée de Dorothée et Nadine. Toutes deux sont sur exclusively.
J'attends ce week end avec impatience.
Je serai également heureuse de faire votre connaissance.
A très bientôt.
Charlotte.

I see that.. I asked Nicole if she knew how she said you had already done it, well done its worth posting. I didn't know about some of the other things Nuts and Onions
Speak soon Dee and the girls

So sorry to hear that Billy has gone. My Bailey is Cataluna Son of a Gun, so they had a little in common after all.

Night and God bless Billy.xxx

Dawn R.

Hi Catherine,
thanks for your comment on Glen:-)) I just wish I had the oportunities that seem to prevail in the UK for training... I'd love to do (even) more with Glen on the working side. I found that besides Peter's weeks the KC offer various training days. Pity there is not more interest from the breed clubs in organising training events (or maybe not enough interest from members)
Little boy Dillan lives with Manuela (also on this list) and is coming on nicely:-))

hello, maybe i am blind but i can't see any chat button??? i know that there is one on the gordon ning and chats are visible to all but i can't find one here? where is it?

Catherine, i really do not have that chat button :-))) very funny. refreshed the page several times but it just won't appear. maybe a good sign, otherwise this site will take even more of my time ;-)
today we have the carnival of the setter club, still thinking about my masquerade ;-)

costume i mean :)

happy to announce that finally i found the chat function. seems to work for me, at least i see your message and annette's as well. i believe it is for chatting with more members at the same time, not with individuals. you can use the little arrow in the right corner of the chat window to make the window disappear. hope this helps. off to the fields now with the doggies, byeee and have a nice weekend. going to write more later on.

Sorry Catherine, I've just been having a little giggle about your chat window that could not be closed - fancy chatting with Laura for 7 hours!!! I find 7 minutes hard going;o)))) (I'm sure she won't read this!)
No, seriously I've been experiencing problems too after my own website not showing my ES photographs I downloaded the 'Flash viewer' update at least 10 times and still can't get things to work... so frustrating isn't it!
Ning seems to be changing too much at once.

I got in and out again with clicking either on arrows or on the green light beside the figure. But it sounds as if you may be blocked;-(( have you switched off and re-started?

Thanks for the update. Glad your daughter figured it out!

Hi there Catherine, how is the preparation going??? I have just started to get the girls ready for Crufts. I am not sure if this time it is going to make any difference, Saffy in particular hasn't got much hair at the moment, but am going to Crufts so will bring her along...she looks like a miner puppy, not Post Graduate...Jas will I hope look good she is such a sweetie she deserves to win everything......
See you at Crufts, Dee and the girls

great to hear! i just tried it with Camilla (Danka's breeder) and i find it disturbing that when i change the ning page (right now from my own page to yours), the chat i had with her until now just disappeared... oh well, good that there are other channels of communication as well :-)

Hi there Catherine,
Just got back from a 'new' walk so the girls have had a wonderful time. Just have to do the final trim on neck and feet, will bath on Friday morning, gives me all day to dry them, Saffy will not take any extras because she just doesn't have any hair to worry about...But Jas on the other hand is going to take a lot of work, as usual, but it is worth it when she is 'unveiled' just before going in the ring, as you say lets hope it doesn't rain, I too hate driving in the rain, but the time I go down it isn't so crowded, just a lot of lorries...Oh well less than a week now, EEEKKK will see you on Saturday, and yes.....the photo.....should be good though, if it can be organised, lucky it isn't me organising it, but I WILL get EVERYONE in it, if it kills me...
Dee and the girls..

yes, it sends me an invitation to join your chat :-) i have to accept it - but as i was out with the girls, i couldn't... let's stick to the private messages here on the real site, that works for sure.