Katie earns first placement of 2010 fall season

On September 5, 2010, Katie returned to her winning ways and back to her pre-pregnancy form with a 4th place in the Miami Valley Vizsla Club's Open Limited Gun Dog stake. Katie was 4th out of 26 dogs in this AKC horseback event. During Katie's brace she had the opportunity to show not only her run, but also her ability to find birds and her style and intensity while backing. Thanks and good job to Jamie Fountain for handling Katie in this event.

Katie's Puppies

Katie's puppies have reached 12 weeks old and are looking good. We decided to keep 2 of the males, Hawk and Smudge. They are bold, curious and crazy about birds already. Hawk is looking like he'll be a brute and Smudge is fast and already scent pointing quail. "Patch" went home to Steve and Ginny Chiappini's house, we miss her and are eager to see just how pretty she turns out to be.

Field Trial Placements for 2009-2010 season

Chip's Charlie Brown and Pine Straw Katydid both had a successful year, Charlie as a derby and Katie as a first year shooting dog. We were very happy with both of them.

Charlie won: 3rd place at the National Brittany Open Grouse Championship Association's Open Derby on October 4, 2009; 1st place at the Wolverine Derby Classic held by the Beaverton Grouse Dog Club on October 18, 2009; 3rd Place at the Joel Collier Derby Classic in March of2010; 3 rd place at the 2010 spring running of the Black Ash Amateur Derby; and 1st place in the Shooting Dog stake of the spring 2010 DuBois Beaver Meadow Field Trial Association.

Katie brought home: 3rd Place in the Central Georgia Pointing Dog Club's Open Gun Dog stake held October 4th 2009 (AKC horseback trial); 4th place at the Vizsla Club of Metro Atlanta (AKC horseback trial) in the Open Limited Gun Dog stake; 2nd place in the Amateur Shooting Dog stake (AF walking) at the IB Parnell Trial held by the South Carolina Bird Hunters in January of 2010; and 3rd place in the Open Shooting Dog stake of the Vidalia Trial (AF horseback) held in the spring of 2010 at Baxley, Georgia.

We would like to thank Scott and Marc Forman (Shady Hills Kennels) for their hard work with Charlie as well as Steve (Chip) and Ginny Chiappini (Chip's Kennels) for giving us the opportunity to co-own Mr. Charlie.

We would like to thank Jamie Fountain (Oconee Kennels) for his efforts and handling of Katie.

Katie's Litter

First year shooting dog, PineStraw Katydid, just whelped a litter of 5 puppies, 3 males and 2 females. The sire of the pups is RU-CH/ CH Chip's Torquato. Katie is by newly crowned Ontario Grouse CH Chip's Uncle Buzzy X Foster Award winner Sky's Blue Belle. Katie has puppy, derby, and shooting dog placements, and has placed in both walking and horseback trials. See page 30 of the May 8 edition of the Field for a picture. For information I can be contacted at esetters3@yahoo.com.

Katie has been bred

Pine Straw Katydid has been bred to Chip's Torquato. "Torque" is a grouse trial champion who is known to run big. These pups will have a lot of big name setters in their pedigree, but they will also have some good performers up close. Katie's sire, Chip's Uncle Buzzy, recently won his first championsip title at the Ontario Grouse Championship.

In deciding to which dog I should breed Katie, I did a lot of deliberating and a lot of asking advice of people that know a lot more than me. For this, Katie's first litter, I decided to go with Torque based not only on his championship wins, pedigree as it matched hers, and running style, but also based on his production of a fair amount of champions and winners. Charlie is a Torque son that my boys and I raised from a puppy. He has done pretty well with 4 wins in his derby season (1 first and 3 thirds). He was also easy to train and is a serious bird finder. Charlie is out of a repeat breeding of Torque with Keystones' Red Ryder. The first breeding produced champions Keystone's Red Rage and Peacedale Duke. Torque also sired CH Chip's Little Spark.

Katie is due any day, as 63 days from her first tie with Torque would be 5/19/2010. I will try to keep this blog up to date.

The puppy picture above is Chip's Charlie Brown as a puppy. This will give you an idea about what Torque's puppies can look like.

Pinestraw Setters Initial Post

Welcome to Pinestraw Setters! We are a small English Setter kennel and breeder. We do not breed a large volume of puppies, but we do strive for the highest quality in field trial and hunting Setters. Our dogs are achieving success in horseback, walking, and coverdog trials as well as AKC hunt tests. We pay attention to pedigrees in our breedings, but also require individual performance in both sire and dam. We do not overlook the individual personality, because we want all of our pups to be good pets as well.

In addition to field trials we hunt our dogs regularly. They get exposure to multiple species of game birds in several states. Our dogs have hunted pheasants, quail, ruffed grouse, sharptail grouse, woodcock, hungarian partridge, blue grouse, and sage grouse.

Our puppies are raised in a hands-on manner, being socialized by the whole family. They are bold, inquisitive and happy. We do everything that we can to make them well adjusted and ready to begin a life as a bird dog. Thanks for looking at our blog and please check back for new posts or litter announcements.