Happy Birthday...from all of us!!! Love your puppy photos, by the way...truly scrumptious!! :-))

Happy birthday Jean from all of us here in Scotland :-) Enjoy your day!

Happy Birthday Jean! have a nice and really special day!

Happy Birthday Jean! Have a great day!

Joyeux anniversaire Jean !!!!

Hi there Jean
I hope that you have a wonderful day for your birthday.
Have a happy birthday,
All the best Dee and the gang

Happy happy birthday from across the miles. Hope you had a super day. Lots of love from Jo and the redheads in NZ.

Oh là là, I almost missed your Birthday, Jean... Joyeux Anniversaire et j'éspère que tu a passé une journée très agréable avec la famille à deux et à quatre pattes!

Thanks for being so mindful and wishing me a happy b-day, Jean!
Just realised you turned a prestigous age not long ago. Those lots of experiences have made you a master of the breed by now for sure. Wishing your way to be continued in a long and happy life together with your families and dogs full of health, joy, and success!!
Marta and the rest

thank you for comment for houston.
iam verry proud on him
gr rieky

Hello Jean,
Thank you very much for your nice comment about my pups. Yes it will be sad to give them away but it is a high time to let them go... if I won't do this my house will be ruined;)
Kisses to your babies,
Marta

Hi there Jean
Could comment on all the puppy pictures, they are all so so Sweet they are really growing well, will be going to their new homes soon, have you got them all their ''forever homes'' yet??? I know it was a worry for me but they all seemed to go really well and to really nice people, there are a few on the site now...Good luck and I hope that you are not too exhausted. Keep the pictures coming Dee and the gang

Hi there Jean
Oh I know what you mean about them standing like professionals mine were really good until they got to about 10 weeks...now will they stand...will they heck. but they will get the habit soon again, mine are at the stage now of looking like ugly camels everywhere they go they seem to have a hump in their backs and their heads are looking 'ugly' but Janice Roberts said to me once...look at them at 6 weeks and then try not to look at them until they get to 6 months + I have always though that was a really good comment. And lets face it Janice knew what she was talking about. Glad they all have good homes, that is the main thing. I will look forward to the standing pictures of your yellow-orange girl...
All the best Dee and the gang

Bonjour Jean
Mercie pour votre commantaire. Je voulais vous encore dire que les photos sur votre site m'ont beaucoup impressionees. Bon courage avec des tres mignion chiot :)
Salutations
Renata

Hi Jean,
thanks for your sympathies. I am so sorry that you lost your girls. Unthinkable! I always thought (for about 16 years) that nothing could happen to our well-protected setters but now we have got a new generation of girl setters (1,5 years and 10 months) and everything has changed. I am so surprised that so many setters died on roads (my nightmare on Sunday) I could not believe it. Think positive! No walks without leash! we are sorry. Best wishes Kerstin

Bonjour,
Une bien jolie portée, j'imagine ? Tous sont déjà réservés ou peut-être vendus ?
Bonne journée.
Jean-Luc

Bonjour Jean,

Cela me fait grand plaisir d'apprendre que vous avez rencontré plein succès avec cette portée. Vos bonnes nouvelles montrent que le setter irlandais plaît toujours beaucoup et se vend bien, en tout cas en Belgique. Ici à Genève, comme en France vroisine, il est rare voire impossible d'en croiser un dans la rue. J'imagine qu'en Belgique, compte tenu que vous êtes plusieurs excellents éleveurs, le setter irlandais est à nouveau un chien que l'on voit de temps en temps ?

Je crois que vous êtes venu à Animalia à Lausanne cette année ? je regrette de n'avoir pas pu m'y rendre. L'année prochaine, pensez-vous y retourner ?

A bientôt.

JL

Thank you Jean for Birthday wishes!!

Thank you for your comment on my beloved Bella!
I've looked at pictures of your puppies and they look great! Good luck in the future with them!

Hi there Jean
Again thank you so much for the comment on my boy, he is growing well, and I was unable to take a picture by myself, ah bless.....every time I got the camera out they all just tried to eat it, but Aleks can stand him whenever she wants, he looks so good. As I have said, I am prejudice about him. Thanks again Dee and the gang

Thankyou Jean for your lovely BumbleBee message - made me smile!
Cheers,
Myra.

Hi Jean,
thank you for your nice comment about Conner's babies.
Saw your new girl, she is lovely, good luck with her!
greetings :)
Agnieszka & Conner

Hi there Jean
Thanks so much for the comment on Saffys thank you!!! I love the baby that you have kept, I think that Robynn/Lana will probably be in the ring with you???? Good luck to you both.
All the best Dee and the gang

Hello Jean,
Thank you for your comments:)
Violet boy is not mine. He lives in Dębica with Daria and her husband.
Greetings to you and your gang:)

Thanks a lot for your comment! We wish all the best in the field and on show ring!

BON ANNIVERSAIRE A YELLY DE LA PART DE SON FILS DUNDEE.

Thank you so much for your kind words!!!!! I love him too :)

Thank you very much for asking, very sweet of you:-) Everything is okey, but I am working a lot, my husband are away for the weeks and on top of that renovating the kitchen so a lot to do right now, but truelly understand that you wonder, have not been so activ here lately, but it will change soon when things calms down. Anyway me and Charlie will go to Stockholm next weekend and at the same time we will visit his children, so maybe hopefully I will have som news to share, thank´s again for asking,
I really appreciate it,
All the best//Kristina

Bonjour Jean,
J'imagine que votre prochaine portée est prévue d'ici l'automne prochain ? ou envisagez-vous quelque chose avant, au printemps par exemple ?
A bientôt, cordiales salutations.
JL

re-bonjour,
Joli mariage en prévision ! Beatles dont les origines sont très proches de mon chien Lucky, par le père Kramer ... L'avez-vous déjà vu ?
JL

Merci ! et en plus, il est adorable et tellement gentil.
J'ai vu sur votre site de très belles photos et que vous êtes chasseur. Alors vos chiens sont-ils tout à fait aptes ou performants à la chasse ?
J'avais l'impression qu'il y avait d'une part la sélection au travail, à la chasse, et d'autre part celle pour les concours de beauté.
Dans votre sélection, vous avez aussi des chiens destinés aux chasseurs ?

Thank you Jean for your kindly words, and I am very happy because you like my photos :)

Hi there Jean
I know what you mean, there are some that are really special, and stand out from the crowd, I have a couple that really do mean a little bit more than the others, I do love them all but some are as I said special.
I do think as well that some Affix's also stand out from the crowd, and I have always like the McBirdy Affix, guess its the Mc thing, being a Scot!!!!!
I only did one agility and ended up being carted off in an ambulance, so never did it again, the dog was fine though.. All the best Dee and the gang

Hi there Noella
Ah that is great, Scottish people are very patriotic, on the whole, so thank you for being a fan of my wonderful, (all be it cold and very wet, at the moment), country...
Good luck with your wonderful puppies The Scottish side of the family is in the ring on Saturday, I suspect that your wee ones are just that bit too young for this show????
Speak soon, all the best Dee and the gang

Hi there Noella
Please give my wee girl a cuddle from me...And I will raise ''another'' glass for Dooley, we had two bottles her that night. So another glass would be fine..I hope that you have a good day. All the best and I will not know what happens until Tuesday Dee and the gang

Thank you Jean for your nice comments on my new photos! We have a lot of snow at the moment and the boys enjoy it every day
Regards Esther

Thank you so much for your kind words on my blog-post about Ivy!
Yes she was a great horse and you felt she was so big and powerful...makes it hard to understand.
She is a much missed family-member!

Bonjour,
Je trouve vos chiens magnifiques, je connais d'ailleurs la petite Hyushann of MCBIRDY que j'ai eu l'occasion de voir en exposition à plusieurs reprises et dernièrement à Rouen avec son heureux propriétaire, M. Perrier Michel.
Félicitations !

En effet, j'espère que nous aurons l'occasion de faire connaissance. Il est vrai que mes chiennes sont "médium" et qu'elles passent bien partout....mais même si je participe aux spéciales et aux nationales, je suis consciente qu'elles n'auront pas les 1ères places....mais elles sont au moins excellentes c'est ce qui compte pour moi ! Alors je participe...

A bientôt,
Domi.

Hi there Noella
Well we are both on the same 'cusp' so that probably makes us with something in common...+...we have the dogs as well All the best and thanks for the BDay greetings..
Dee and the gang

I love your Xmas card.Lovely dogs.Hope to meet them one day.
Enjoy and take care

Joyeux Noel et Bonne Annee 2010!
Catherine et ses 3 Irlandais!

Thank you very much of you wishes on my birthday :)
Happy Christmas days to "McBirdy's"

Anu & co.

thanks for the b-day wishes and happy b-day to you, Noëlla ! december-end girls are the best :-))

THANKS FOR THE WISHES!!
I WISH YOU AND YOUR SETTERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Zsuzsi & KO :)

Hi All
When in Scotland over the new year, you have ''first footing'' and that is the first person that steps the threshold, after the 'bells' should bring in a bottle of Whisky and a lump of Coal, the latter to keep your lum reaking. If you are tall and dark haired, you get slung outside with the appropriate gift, and not aloud back in until after midnight...strange but true. All the best Dee and the gang

Thanks for comment on Tösen, keep fingers crossed that everything works out well.
Greetings Annika

Toutes nos félicitations à Frisbee pour ce magnifique résultat de meilleure femelle de l'année 2009 et bien sûr bravo à Jean et Noëlla pour le travail réalisé
Annie et Philippe et les autres Mcbirdy

Thank you so much for the comment on my blog! Yes, I do prefer working with dogs rather than doing anything else...especially when I win!!!!!:-)

Thank you for the wishes :) I am proud to be a capricorn ;)