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All my fun loving Irish:
Irish Setter Females:
Shepard Mollie Lou O'Day (Mollie) ( Retiring)
Rose Valley Pink Petals (Pink)
Shepard's Sunny Shelly Girl (Shelly)( Retiring)
C-Bar Country O'Reiley (Scarlett)
C-bar Country Red (Ruby)( Retiring)
Shepard's Stormy Girl (Stormy)
LITTLE RED ABIGAIL MOLLY ODAY ( Abby)
Rose Valley Elegant Elanor (Elly)
Rose Valley Little Lady (Lady)
Little Red Abigail Oday (Gabby)
Rose Valley Sweet Cece Girl (Cece)
Rose Valley Zany Zazoo ( ZAZOO)
Our Irish Setter males are:
Rose Valley Sir Isaac. (Isaac)( SOLD)
Redlands Dusty Boots of Texas (Dusty)
Rose Valley Sir O'Reilly Red (Big Red)
Irish Setters
The Irish Setter is an aristocratic bird dog who has a rich, lustrous red coat and an expressive face. Along with its appearance, the Irish Setter's personality is fun loving, playful and affectionate breed who enjoy children and make good pets or gundogs.
Some believe that the setter is difficult to train, but this is not so. The Irish Setter is very smart, sometimes smarter than its owner, so one must use care and patience in training this dog. Once learned, a lesson is never forgotten, so it behooves the owner to train a puppy with love and firmness, never harshness or cruelty.
The breed is naturally clean and fastidious and will housetrain quickly, if given the opportunity to go out at regular intervals when it is young. It loves to be with its people and will adapt to riding in a car, preferably in a crate where it can stretch out comfortably and be secure. This breed is not aggressive but it will energetically announce the arrival of all comers, and if put to the test has been known to protect its owners from harm.
I have three type of AKC Irish Setter.
First the show type, that is large, substantial and heavy coated. The males stand about 27 inches at the withers and weights about 70 pounds. The females are smaller. The muzzle is square, ears are low set and long. The color is deep mahogany red. AKC standards allows a little white on the head, feet, and chest.
There are also two types of field dogs. They are smaller and more lightly boned with thinner coats. The AKC field type varies in size: from 21 inches up to 27 inches. Weight is 45-50lbs for the smaller and up to 70lbs for the larger Setters. The muzzle is more “wedge” shape, ears are shorter and set a bit higher than the show type.
Randall Davis has Irish Red Setter Gun Dogs. For more information go to: http://elkhorngundogs.com/
The Red Setter of today is often called a new breed, but this is not true. This breed represents the true Irish Setter from it’s origination in Ireland over 50 years ago when it was among one of the most prominent pointing dogs. This breed is also recognized by the AKC.
The appearance of the Red Setter is not that of the traditional Irish Setter show dog. The Red Setter does not have long flowing hair associated with the breed. Their hair only flows and feathers on their legs and tails, making them much easier to maintain. This obviously is due to the fact that they were originally bred to be a hunting dog. The coat is very soft and silky. The Red Setter also is not as large; males top out at 50 lbs. and the females usually weigh between 35 lbs. and 40 lbs. They normally have some white on their face and stomach too. They have very friendly dispositions and love their family, which makes them a great companion too.