View Full Version : Remembering our first Setter
Mike Koneski
11-14-2021, 03:55 PM
I was thinking of our boy today and came across this photo. Deacon Blue was a great dog and spoiled us for all the Setters to follow. So glad we had a good 10 1/2 years with him. He taught us so much and he was my constant companion. And yes, his name was inspired by the Steely Dan tune.
Andrew Sacco
11-14-2021, 07:49 PM
Mike, wonderful looking dog. Wonderful tune! Incredible band!! A bucket list item I never got to.
Mike Koneski
11-14-2021, 07:50 PM
Fortunately we had the dog and saw the band play the song live. :)
Andrew Sacco
11-14-2021, 07:59 PM
Fortunately we had the dog and saw the band play the song live. :)
I'm still better looking Mike : )
Mike Koneski
11-14-2021, 08:50 PM
I'm still better looking Mike : )
No, Deacon was better!!
Andrew Sacco
11-14-2021, 09:05 PM
Not the dog. YOU.
Mike Koneski
11-14-2021, 09:52 PM
Not the dog. YOU.
BWAHAHAHA!! No way Andy! I’m man pretty!! 😎
Jon Sheets
11-16-2021, 06:31 AM
Leaving all that aside...... Ya never forget your first one!
Funny how you never hear, "I had a Setter once but switched to a _________."
Garry L Gordon
11-16-2021, 06:49 AM
Beautiful setter, Mike. Looks like an Osthaus dog.
Bill Murphy
11-16-2021, 07:36 AM
My first setter was in 1948, when I was two years old. She was an Irish out of Milson O'Boy as I recall. I still have her papers, but not handy. My dad raised one litter and we kept one male from the litter. He was the first dog I hunted over, until I was in college.
Mike Koneski
11-16-2021, 08:25 AM
Beautiful setter, Mike. Looks like an Osthaus dog.
He was a Decoverly. Ken Alexander picked him out for us. Ken picked a good one! His Dam was L’il Lil and sire was Sterling.
Hal Sheets
11-17-2021, 09:05 AM
Leaving all that aside...... Ya never forget your first one!
Funny how you never hear, "I had a Setter once but switched to a _________."
Jon, Say What ?
Jon Sheets
11-19-2021, 06:24 PM
Jon, Say What ?
Okay, you ALMOST never hear it. And certainly not from those with disciminating taste. :rotf:
Mike Koneski
11-19-2021, 11:05 PM
Jon, now you’re digging where the taters are!!
Hal Sheets
11-20-2021, 06:25 AM
Mike,
Jon's just pulling my chain (he's my baby brother by 12 yrs.) and my first setter (Irish) helped raise him. I have french brittanys now (more room on the bed), but I'm still a setter man, too.
I've been telling him, that on one of his rare trips down from Maine, I want to being him to The Mountain, to meet you and Sam and your setters. I know you'll get on well, Jon's a real dog-man.
Mike Koneski
11-20-2021, 06:45 AM
Well Hal, your brother will definitely get his Setter fix!!
Jon Sheets
11-21-2021, 01:55 PM
I'm chasing 2- 3 month olds and their mother around now. Doesn't that qualify as a fix?
Mike Koneski
11-21-2021, 04:24 PM
Yes it does!! :rotf:
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