Saturday, March 20, 2010

Puppies, Bird Hunting and Pictures

It's dark on the way to work, it's dark on the way home. Blah! Looking at bird hunting pictures and the nice emails from folks with pups from us or pups out of Keystone Setters is one good way to get rid of the winter blahs.
This is a picture of Scout pointing woodcock and with his owner Curt Cote and his son after a good October hunt in New England. At 7 months Curt shot 54 grouse and woodcock over Scout's points this fall! Scout is from Bill Henke's shop out of his Keystone's Best Bette (CH Keystone's Red Rage ex Keystone's Pale Ryder) and sired by CH Long Gone Boston.



This is a picture of a 5 month old male, Merlin, sired by CH Keystone's Red Rage and John Theriout's female that was reported by his owner to be hunting AND pointing ND pheasants. He is the small tri-color pup in this shot hanging out with all the big dogs and their pheasants.


This picture was already posted on the internet but I just love it! These are pups sired by CH Peacedale Duke and out of Babe Keene Valley and are just 8 weeks in this picture. The boys (3 of them) belong to Bill Curtis of Mass. These pups are younger siblings to 2 1/2 yr old Beauty Keene Valley who we just aquired from Bill and Richie Frisella to breed to CH Keystone's Red Rage later this winter-spring. Beauty or B as we call her, is also pictured here pointing birds.



Stoney Fork Fargo (CH Keystone's Red Rage ex Electra) won the Flannagan Top Cover Dog Setter Derby award last year and was sold to new owners. Here's a quality shot of him on point during his new owners first trial in New England where he got a first in the Amateur Gun Dog Stake.


Making it coast to coast for the holidays here is a nice shot of Mike Spies' dog Ted out of CH Keystone's Red Ryder and sired by CH High Definition. Ted is pointing California Valley Quail in southern California on the Kern River this December.


Happy Holidays to everyone. Have a great winter!

2 comments:

Shawn K. Wayment, DVM said...

That red and white setter above is gorgeous!

Craig Peters Warrens, WI 443-206-1091 said...

He's a near clone of his pop, just slightly smaller. His mother was diminutive but looks near the same with identical orange color and ticking. But that's pretty much the MO of Lacey's pups too, dark orange with dark pigmentation. Funny how they have become easily identifiable from that. Mike Spies' Ted dog carries the look as well.