Sugar wins Northeastern Open Shooting Dog Championship!

Pine Straw Sweet Tea (Sugar) has won the Northeastern Open Shooting Dog Championship. Sugar was handled by Jeanette Tracy of Ladywood Farms.  Sugar had 8 finds in her bid to take the title.  Sugar has shown a lot of promise even from a puppy. She was runner-up for the Bill Conlin Setter Shooting Dog Derby award in her derby year and had amassed some quality placements in her first couple years as a shooting dog.

Pine Straw Sweet Tea is out of Multiple CH Highground Jax Jabba and our RUCH Pine Straw Katydid.  She is one of the most classy Setters we've produced and is obviously a very good bird finder.

Huge thanks go to Jeanette for developing Sugar and bringing her to the level that she has achieved.

Sugar shows she's back from maternity leave with two solid placements.

Pine Straw Sweet Tea has returned to trialing with a vengeance. Sugar took second place in a 22 dog Open Shooting Dog stake at the English Setter Club of America's fall trial at Medford, NJ. She followed that up with a 1st place in a Open Restricted Shooting Dog stake at an AKC/American Field dual sanctioned trial in late September. We're hopeful Sugar is on her way to a great trial year.

Pine Straw Magpie available for sale to the right home.

WE HAVE FOUND A HOME FOR MAGGIE. THANKS TO ALL THAT EXPRESSED INTEREST.

We are offering our Pine Straw Magpie for sale to the right home. Maggie is 6 years old and is a finished gun dog.  We think Maggie would be a great fit for someone looking for their first fully trained bird dog, someone that makes regular trips to a hunting preserve and needs a well mannered hunter, or a family that has up and coming young bird hunters that would benefit from the thrill of hunting behind their own dog.

Maggie is very petite, weighing approximately 34 pounds and is quite portable.  She is affectionate and very much wants to please. She points, backs, and retrieves.

If you are interested in hearing more about Maggie you can email us at pinestrawsetters@gmail.com.

Erin's Hidden Shamrock X Pine Straw Sweet Tea pups have arrived!

We are excited to have these four beautiful Sugar Babies from or breeding of Sugar (Pine Straw Sweet Tea) to Erin's Hidden Shamrock.

We think that this breeding of a multiple titled AA champion to our promising up and coming horseback shooting dog Sugar will be a good one.  Sugar was runner-up for the Bill Conlin Setter Shooting Dog Derby Award her derby year and garnered some wins as a shooting dog last year.  She came close to some really big wins a couple times this fall and then she took the rest of the year off to have these pups.

We are really looking forward to seeing how they turn out.

Pine Straw Evangeline gets her first field trial placement.

Pine Straw Evangeline (Emmy) earned her first field trial placement on January 20, 2018.  Emmy's three find performance in the Amateur Derby stake at the Vizsla Club of Metro Atlanta's field trial helped her take third place.  Emmy is out of our breeding of 2X Nat'l CH Shadow Oak Bo to RUCH Pine Straw Katydid.

Pine Straw Chester earns first field trial placement.

PINE STRAW CHESTER took first place in the Open (All-Age) Derby held by the Black Belt Amateur Field Trial Club's fall trial on October 29, 2017.  This was Chester's first placement in a field trial and came in the second trial he's run in.

CHESTER is out of our breeding of 2X National Champion Shadow Oak Bo to our National Amateur Grouse Championship Runner-Up Pine Straw Katydid.  I think just about all Setter people are familiar with Bo. Katydid took Runner-Up at the 2010 National Amateur Grouse Championship held at Marienville, PA against a field of 69 entries. Katydid is out of Grand National Grouse Champion Chip's Uncle Buzzie X Mult. CH Sky's Blue Belle.

Big thanks to Lee Phillips out of Trail South Kennels for running Chester.  Lee runs our all age dogs for us and most importantly lets me come out to the prairie to ride along for a few days every year to watch.

Shearjoy's Unforgiven X Pine Straw Country Sunshine pups arrive.

Our Will X Dottie litter has arrived. Unfortunately for our customers/bird dog partners, there were only 2 puppies, and we are going to hang on to both for a while to evaluate them. The pedigree for this litter is full of Hall of Fame dogs and Champions, from both the shooting dog and all age venues. Grand sires are Hytest Skyhawk and Highground Jax Jabba, both having multiple trips to the National Championship. See our post on this breeding for more details on pedigrees.

If you were wanting a pup out of Dottie, take heart, we will likely breed her again in the future.