Hi Michelle

Welcome to the site.  Looking forward to seeing photos of your dogs.  Owned English settes for 28 years and never seen a lemon belton!

Best wishes

Deborah

Hi Michelle

They are lovely dogs.  He is very pale isn't he. Are they working strain? One of my Irish is half working strain, very intelligent indeed.  We have round door handles and a lock on the fridge!!

Deborah

hi michelle i hope you will enjoy ex setters site i love your dogs happy bunch  i hope you will have a red some day merry christmas

Hello Michele,

thank you for adding me to your friends.

A couple years ago I was proud owner of my "Mr  Dog"

(he was crossbreed: mother was  Irish setter+Slovak cuvac and father was  hovawart).

His name was Athos.Your dogs remind me him a little.

Have a nice Christmas time:)

Reni and ISis

Hi there Michelle

Do you have a place in mind where you are going to get your 'Red' from???? your lemon boy looks lovely, I would hate to try and keep him clean...I took mine out for the first time for a long time, (weather been just too bad, and dangerous under foot), and was surprised that it was still thick snow/ice, mainly ice, so a walk that normally takes about half an hour to walk took 'me' one and a half...but the 'kids' just loved it, Fin, Saffy's son, was in and out of the burn, and he was absolutely soaking wet...and very dirty, as it was so very muddy...where the snow wasn't...

Good luck with your new baby, can't wait to see what he (???) looks like. All the best Dee and the gang

Hi Michelle!

Thanks for nice comment!

Hi Michelle, thanks for the friends request and the comments on my photos :-) Looks like your two boys are having a great life too! Love their names ;-)

Greetings from Scotland....

The collars came from the Internet thanks to Nicole, and it really did make life easier, when you are bottle feeding every 4 hours for so many weeks, you need to be able to tell one from the other, and in the end, they are trained to collars from the word go, they never have that dreadful time trying to get them used to a collar, all the throwing themselves around and scratching at themselves....ha ha.

Saffy left a lot of it to me, she seemed to know that I would do most of the ''stuff'' involved with babies, she really did love the cleaning up after them though, after food. She loves her son and plays constantly with him... 

Thanks for your comments on my photos;-)

Did you contact customers to offer  them new staff?

Cuddles for count Dogula and his mate:-)

Hi there Michelle

I know that I had a Xbreed that had the most dreadful teeth, I was horrified when I noticed them...but the vet told me that dogs didn't feel teeth the way that we do, and perhaps he just didn't feel anything..I know that I was pleased to think that it didn't give Liuka any discomfort, I do hope that all goes well on the 16th....will be thinking of you both then...all the best Dee and the gang

Jas is doing really well, behaving like a puppy, posted some pictures, I need to get better with the camera though...;o))

Hi Michelle,

Hope everything went well with Lego.

Cheryl

Hi Michelle,

sorry for a delay in answering, but there is a lot of duties in my life now;(

That's very niice to be your friend;)

Kisses to your white boys!

Anna

Hi once more:-)

I've just read  a story about Legolas:( I hope everything is going better and better with him:-)

Ania

Fingers crossed:-)

All the bes!

cuddles for your boys, special kisses to Legolas!

Michelle and Legolas...I know how hard it can be to wait to find out if surgery or medicines work....yesterday here in USA watched with much interest a news clip of my former vet who is in the testing of stem cells ( dogs own) for use in dogs for ortho conditions...Bermese Mountain Dog who at 7 months came up limping and whining from pain. who did not benefit from medicines and normal treatments ...evidently they harvest fat from the dog and send it away to harvest the dog's stem cells and then inject them into the dog....this little guy had two treatments and is doing wonderful....jumping up onto the bed again and running and playing.....just amazing what the future may hold for our dogs if this is successful and even for us humans.

    Legolas reminded me so much of our Brittany rescue....eyes and the markings on his face just looked so much like Pebbles.....except substitute red for that black markings....and I never could resist his eyes.  He had me from the day my Dad adopted him and when he came to live with us fulltime later he took over our home and Shilo , our IS just let him...he became Shilo's protector from the dreaded black lab puppy who lived behind us and scared poor Shilo to the point he would no longer go out into the yard...Pebbles changed that for us as he stood guard between the fence and Shilo so Shilo could enjoy the yard again.  Anyone who thinks dogs can't communicate with each other would have had to watch them work this out to truly believe they do communicate needs to each other.  Will be following to see how Legolas does so keep us posted.  Good Luck.

Sherry and Miss Molly

Hi there Michelle

Thank you for your thoughts, I am just hoping for a good outcome. I hope that she will be safe when this is all over..I will keep everyone informed as to what, if anything, I find out about this situation...

And you are very welcome for the comment on your wee man and his big soulful eyes.. he certainly can act well...Dee and the gang 

Michelle and Legolas ,

  Delighted to be your friend and looking forward to a very positive report soon that Legolas is up and about and you are chasing him!  Take care,

Sherry and Miss Molly

Hi Michelle,

Thanks for your comments on Mitch's photos.

Sorry to hear what poor Legolas has been through. Wish your lovely boy the very best of luck on April 18th.

Tony

Thanks Michelle,

Mitch has made a full recovery and is back to his usual self. Hopefully you will be saying the same about Legolas in the near future. 

Yes, Theoden and Mitch are similar -  they are even more alike in your muddy photo of him. :)  Mitch just loves the mud. Even when we have a dry spell of weather (a rare event in Ireland and Wales I know) he usually manages to find some and we rarely return home from a walk where he's not plastered with the stuff! :)  

Best wishes

Tony                   

Thankfully no, he does have the annoying habit of eating all sorts of 'orrible stuff if I don't watch him, but has never (thankfully) rolled in anything foul. I know the feeling though as my previous Irish girl would have fitted in with your boys quite nicely. She absolutely loved rolling in anything, the smellier the better!!! The worst thing she ever rolled in was the remains of an upturned dead hedgehog, which except for the skin and spines had turned into a green liquid and looked like a bowl of pea soup. The stench was unbelievable, even after three baths you could still smell it on her! Indeed the aroma still lingers with me to this day. :) As for hunting birds   etc -  it's not only looks that Theoden & Mitch have in common.... when we were out on the moors it was always the case of nose down - bottom up and and off he would go on the trail of something or other. Hares were his favourite prey, though thankfully they were too fast for him and he never managed to catch one or anything else for that matter.  He would even stand to point (think that's the correct term) for what seemed like ages on times - I used to get quite fed up of waiting for him to move in and flush whatever it was he was pointing at. Alas those heady days are no more,  age has finally caught up with my boy and he does not wander far from my side nowadays. Though if he did chance upon a Hare I haven't the slightest doubt that he would still try his damndest to catch it :)

Tony & Mitch

Thanks Michelle you cant help spoiling them. Legolas dosnt look 9 at least hes having

a better hair day  hope his shoulder gets better

Thanks Michelle,  Hawk has only had 2 GM and 3 small seizure.  Last one was on 1/27/11 and it was a small one.  He is not on any meds as the seizures are not close enough and my vet and Dr. Jean Dodds want to keep him off anthing unless they become more frequent.  Keeping fingers and paws crossed that the seizures stay away.  Had planned on showing Hawk, put not with epilepsy, he is very birdy so we are going in that direction instead.  

Also hope things keep getting better for your lovely boys.

Dear Michelle,

Thank you for all your lovely comments. I sincerly hope you are doing fine with your lovely dogs and your memories ofyour dear Connor!

Susan