Sadie's first litter, a report back from a new owner of a Sadie pup

This is Shelby daughter to Sadie owned by the Iversson Family of Big Lake, Mn. The report from them was Shelby has exceeded their expectations! No potty accidents in the house, would rather go outside. Picked her bed over the crate and sleeps through the night. Well behaved very social, very good on a leash and a  regal appearance high head tail up and confident. Shelby will be house pet hunting dog.
I've kept a litter mate I can confirm this report, my pup was walking off leash after her third training sessionso I have no doubt how sharp these puppies are.

Sadie Now!

Lady does it

My friend Julie and her dog Lady were able to compete in their first trial ever. Julie still healing from her tragic motorcycle accident brought her crutches and cane to this event. Lady now 7 years old that never was used properly according to her breeding.. Julie has taken the time to see that Lady got some of what well bred setters are supposed to have even if it meant she had to walk thru snow and cold while on crutches.

Saturday April 14th 2012 Julie was able to run Lady in her first ever field trial. Lady and Julie made it thru with out being disqualified which is a major deal all in it's self and found two birds to boot. Lady did not receive a placement but as I said, was not disqualified! Julie just proved you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Sadie 12/16/2011

Well my pup Sadie is begining to listen and work very nice. I caught this shot with my phone camera. I never seem to have the good camera for the good shots. Well the pheasant had slipped away from her but we did eventually get it.

Lady Claire

Claire, now known as Lady in the capable hands of my close friend Julie, is beginning to come around nicely. Saturday the 23rd we went out for a bit of training Lady showed enthusiasm for the hunt not only in the field but when she hears her bell on her hunting collar she now gets excited know she gets to go. Lady also is beginning to handle nice for Julie and works at a good hunting distance. She showed signs of hunting objectives this weekend something hadn't been doing in the past. She is beginning to respond to hand signals while afield and pay closer attention to what Julie is doing. Her listening skills still need a little work but she has come a long way in a short time already I have no doubt Julie is going to have

a great hunting season this coming fall.

In the photo Lady is pointing a planted quail and Sadie is honoring the point. Julie is kicking around looking for the quail and trying to tempt Lady off point so she can be corrected but both dogs remained steady to flush.

Profile: Sadie

Sadie now 1 year old is a very intense puppy with a big set of wheels. Her nose is excellent she's very well gaited and runs fast and effortlessly. She is still in the tweety bird stage so she likes to chase tweety birds. She is almost broke except when she can see the bird. I expect by this fall she'll get to do some productive hunting.

Clair gets a new home

Claire pictured here with Julie her new owner/master. Clair enjoys being part house dog part, hunting dog. Claire is 5yrs old and was basically neglected of her needs as a well bred high end hunting dog so she is under going training/retraining to get her out of some of the bad habits she's developed over the years. Now that Julie is in charge Clair will have at the least the life of a hunting dog.

Moxi, Kira tag team for Mpls man

January 30th 2011, Moxi and Kira helped this gentleman from Mpls get his first pheasant ever. Moxi and Kira pu t on a great show, running thru chest deep snow and demonstrating excellent pointing and backing, giving this gentleman several close up oportunities to bag his birds. Temperature was a balmy 17 degrees with a wind that brought the temp down to Zero but nobody was cold.

Last day to pheasant hunt

The last day of pheasant season Moxi and I went out for some wild birds the first half of the day and on the way home we stopped by the pheasant preserve for some scratch birds. The winds cutting like a knife, were gusting up to 30mph making the windchill well below zero.

Much to my suprise we received a new member to BlaisN' Red Setters. "Clair" Clair is 5 yrs old and her previous owner was unable to provide clair with what she really needed, to get out hunting! Clair is 5 yrs old and out of Firefly kennels in Colorado.

Clair weighs in at 42lbs and very tall 27" and prances when she walks. She's had a bath and had all the matts removed and brushed out now she looks like a different dog.

Willy

Here is Willy. Willy is from Kira and littermate to Sadie. Willy is owned by Dean and Jackie Hiller here in Minnesota. They report to me that Willy now 9 months hunts like a pro is a great family dog and lives up to being the clown as irish setters are known for. Willy is very bright and listens great Jackie tells me. Willy has already exceeded the Hiller's expectaions as a pet and hunting dog and are completely in love with him.

Soon I hope to have some hunting pics of him.

Team work

Christmas weekend I went out with Moxi and Kira. I was able to witness Moxi back Kira from roughly 75 to 100 yds away. I was amazed just by the fact that these are my dogs doing this. Moxi typically would not back Kira because Kira will point tweety birds due to her inexperience. Since I've been working them together Kira is begining to ignore the tweety birds and Moxi begining to take Kira's points a little more seriously. Moxi has now been making retrieves something she didn't do before until we started letting Kira come with. Kira loves to retrieve .

I am convinced that hunting with dogs trained at this level combined with their natural instincts does not allow much hope for the wildlife that is being hunted. Using two dogs even seems unfair at times. I've hunted wild birds and preserve birds with these dogs, to be done in 15 to 30 minutes is not unusual. Often my drive is longer than the hunt.

Josh's first pheasant

With Moxi's assistance the day after Thanksgiving Josh, the son of a very good friend of mine Chet who is pictured in an earlier post, decided it was time for his boy to get a taste of shooting pheasants with an old style single shot 20gauge and a dog. Moxi. Well Josh missed the first two but he did get the third one. I think Josh is now hooked on pheasant hunting along with being an accomplished deer hunter with both rifle and bow and arrow. Accompanied with his sister Miranda in photo

Kira's day out with Julie

Thanksgiving weekend and the first weekend in December Kira has been getting into the action. She's been backing Moxi without fail. Kira has even been finding her own birds and Moxi backing her. She also has been making retrieves. I have to say she's not very clear on objectives so she does a lot of extra running around. Kira's nose is outstanding and when on point she looks like a million bucks.
December 4th Kira and Moxi helped good friend of mine, Julie Crawford get her first pheasant. Having missed our share of wild pheasants we stopped by the preserve for some scratch birds. We were told a group of serious hunters worked with four dogs for a better part of the day shooting all of their birds and having seen a couple scratch birds fly off too far ahead to shoot at.
So Julie and I went to that field and indeed 5 mnutes into the field Moxi established point that produced out first bird we then proceeded to see 6 more but they were running and flying off before either of the dogs could get a point on them. On our way back to the truck as the sun was setting the dogs went on point Julie kicked out a rooster and missed about 50 paces and the dogs went on point again Julie kicked out another rooster and down it came, not even realizing the bird had been hit Julie was perplexed with her gun jamming after a bit of putsing with the gun here comes Kira with the rooster in her mouth delivering it to hand completely suprising Julie.

RED HOT

November 13th and 14th

November 13th Moxi hunted at a preserve for a group from a Mpls based company. Running pheasants and wet heavy snow 13 of 17 birds recovered. November 14th Moxi did more preserve work for a father son team. 8 birds released 24 birds pointed 6 birds recovered.

All in all a great way to spend the weekend.

Out of the pages of Field & Stream

Halloween after an hour in the field and woods Moxi found me several pheasants and 2 grouse due to my shooting skills it took a little extra for me to get my limit of pheasant for the day and shortly after the photo was taken I shot my second rooster.
November 7th 2010 60 degrees. Five minutes into the field Moxi went on point and we soon had our first rooster, 20 minutes later she pointed a second and we were done for the day. It took me an hour to drive there, so we walked around for a while and she found 3 more that we watched fly away.

late summer training for Sadie

September 18th 2010 Sadie now 6 months old developing her her pointing skills and also har backing skills by honoring Moxi's point. Sadie works very hard at finding her birds and does fairly well at her age. I took her out on her own the next day and she was able to find 2 pheasants. I would say she's off to a great start.

Next Generation: Sadie

Sadie is the result of a breeding with Kira and a carefuly selected Sire.

Sadie has already shown signs of being a smart, hard drivin, hunting dog/trial dog.

Spring 2010

Spring of 2010 Moxi brought home Second Place in Open shooting Dog competition.

Early Spring

Moxi keeping her skills sharp working scratch birds on a local shooting preserve a couple weeks before they close for the season. She had to wait quit a while before I could get to her and yes we did get the bird.