I'm a Lab guy. I looked for breeding from Field Trial stock . However there are differnt field trials. American trials and British trials are not the same thing. British trials are more demanding for brains, where American trials focus on speed. My first British import had over 1,000 retrieves and 80 trips as a therapy dog to Detroit's Children's Hospital. A typical American dog would have had a hard time with the hospital job.

John:

Congratulations! You made a great decision. October Setters has a reputation for breeding skilled hunters, but more important, their setters are beautiful.

Pick a setter like you pick a woman. Take the most beautiful one you can get. Everything else can be taught.

-Victor

The old man in the backyard

Miss Daisy May
 

Just a picture of my Orenge Belton Ryman from Wyss kennels, Old Hemlock. She seems to work around 40 yads in the grouse woods but she is young, just turned two Feb-26 She works methodical and does not force the birds into flight. I was with her in SD when she worked a wild rooster along a 75-yard wind row then out into the heavy prairie grass. Stalk and point and move several times till that bird set right out in front of us 15 yards in the big open.....(-: It takes a well bread dog to work a wild bird that way for the foot hunter, especially for a first season pup with so little bird experience! First picture Daisy enjoying the fire, Daisy pointing a Rooster while a young GSP backs her, Daisy with her First Rooster prize. SXS Ohio

John:

I noticed that October Setters has a dog named Birch, which was sired by Mori from Classic English Setter. If things go as planned, I will be getting a puppy from the breeding of Mori and a sibling of my current setter, Snoop. I am very excited about that. Any chance your pup will be from Birch?

(FYI: If anyone is interested, Classic English Setters has puppies available: www.classicenglishsetters.com/Puppies.htm)

-Victor

As it stands now, I’m on the end of a very long list. I’m not sure what breeding I’ll be offered when my number is called.

I’m happy for you, how exciting!