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.

Pine Straw Sweet Tea has BIG time at English Setter Club of America's spring trial.

Pine Straw Sweet Tea (Sugar) wrapped up her first year as a Shooting Dog in fine form. Dillon Shaffer ran Sugar for us in both the Open Restricted Shooting Dog stake and the Open Shooting Dog Stake of the English Setter Club of America's spring trial held at Medford, New Jersey. A handful of finds and nice race garnered 3rd place for Sugar in the Open Shooting Dog. Three finds and a great race earned Sugar a big 1st place win of the Open Restricted Shooting Dog stake. A big thanks to Dillon for running Sugar and to Cole Henry for scouting her.

Sugar's runner up for the Bill Conlin Setter Shooting Dog Derby award for the 2015-2016 season gave us high hopes for her shooting dog career and she has continued to improve through her first year. Sugar is out of our Mult. CH/RU Highground Jax Jabba X RUCH Pine Straw Katydid litter. She is very classy running, biddable, and seemed to mature a little more at every trial. Wrapping up the season with two nice placements keeps our hopes high for Sugar.

Pine Straw Black Hawk Earns 3rd Place at Keystone Shooting Dog Classic

On April 13, 2017, CH Pine Straw Black Hawk earned 3rd place at the Keystone Open Shooting Dog Classic held at Indiantown Gap. This is a big wide open venue that requires dogs that can really open up their range. Hawk laid down a great performance against a field of 42 which contained many champions. Big thanks to Jeanette Tracy (handler) and Dillon Shaffer (scout) of Ladywood Kennels for running Hawk.

This was a good way to end a trial year that had more than its share of setbacks, including an injury during the season that took Hawk out of competition for 3 months. He was then forced to return in the heat of the season at less than optimum condition due to the injury.

Hawk's 2015-2016 year qualified him to run in both the Shooting Dog National Championship and the Shooting Dog Invitational. It was an honor for him to compete at both even though he was fresh off his injury and not at the top of his game.