The Scarlett Letter The Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club, Inc May 2013 April Showers bring May flowers ~~~ the flowers are beautiful already and the dogwoods are blooming! It feels so good for spring to have finally arrived! Dog News Congratulations to~~~~ Perry GA >Jamie Lamphier with JR, NOW GCH Erinfyr s Night Game, for SELECT DOG to finish his GCH at the Valdosta Kennel club show. >Jamie with JR GCH Erinfyr s Night Game NOW BISS for BOB at the Irish Setter Club of GA specialty for 4 GCH points under Judge Robert Slay!! 15 th. ISCA National Specialty 2013 - The national Specialty was held in Fairfax VA the week of April The week got off to a great start. Getting a placement at the National is a great win! Congratulations to~ Day 1 - Puppy Sweepstakes >Jamie with Peyton, Erinfyr s Trade Rumor for placing 3 rd in his 9 12 puppy dog class. >Karren Harrison with Alice, Shadowmere s Chasing Rainbows, for placing 2 nd in her 12 15 puppy bitch class.
>Coleen with Twister, Shadowmere s Storm Chaser for winning his 12 15 month puppy dog class and going on to win Best in Sweepstakes!! >Mary Lamphier with JR, BISS CH Erinfyr s Night Game for earning his first leg in Rally Novice. Day 2 regular Dog class judging; >Coleen with Twister, Shadowmere s Storm Chaser for placing 4 th in the 12 18 month dog class. >Congratulations to Karren Harrison, Shadowmere Irish Setters on the placements and wins from her Chase Litter. Littermate Troy, Northwinds Clash of the Titans went on to go Winners Dog. Troy is owned by Jeff & Becky Arch. Day 3 Regular Bitch judging; >George Towle with Cassidy, Shadowmere's Chasing a Dream back to Highland, for placing 3 rd in the 12-18 month class. >Karren Harrison with Alice, Shadowmere s Chasing Rainbows for placing 4 th in the Am-Bred class. >Denise Hall with, Shadowmere s Something to Talk about at Kellyn, for placing 2 nd on the Open class. >Karren Harrison for placing 1 st in Brood Bitch with Twister, Cassidy, Alice and Abbey. Shadowmere s Chasing Butterflies. Day 4 BOB judging >Karren Harrison with Nikki, BIS BISS bronze GCH Shadowmere s Sentimental Journey, for BOS. (and 5 GCH points). >Jamie Lamphier with JR, BISS CH Erinfyr s Night Game for an Award of Merit. ISCA Annual Awards Congratulations on winning the 2012 ISCA Junior Showmanship award recognizing Jamie Lamphier for 8 Best Juniors, 11 wins, and qualifying for Westminster and the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship Rescue parade and raffle Joan reported that there was a nice amount of spectators that stayed to watch the Parade of Rescue. The ISCA national committee was very appreciative of our efforts to donate the bag of goodies and also a basket to the raffle. Christine Raposo, Chair of the Basket Raffle for the ISCGR (host club) thanked us for our Pittsburgh/PA themed basket we donated to their raffle. Deb received two emails, one from Anne Marie Kubacz (ISCA board member) and Patty Fanelli (this year s show chair) thanking us for our participation and donations to the National Specialty each year. They said they always appreciate everything we do. Irish Club of Greater Richmond (Host club specialty-sunday) >Coleen with Twister, Shadowmere s Storm Chaser, for Reserve Winners Dog.
Smiling Shamrocks Tally Ling Birthdays Coleen MeGee 4 th Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get Well wishes~~ Sending get well wishes to Ed Prichard following eye surgery. Sending Get Well wishes to Bobbi Lou Fisher as she recovers from surgery. Continued get well wishes to John Scheck as he recovers from his stroke. Rainbow Bridge Condolences to Mary & Jamie Lamphier on the loss of Trixie, CH Erinfyr s Sweet Dreams. Trixie was Jamie s first Juniors dog. May the shamrocks fall softly~~~ New Puppies >Deb and Skip are proud to announce the arrival of their very first litter. On Wednesday, April 24 th, BISS silver GCH Courtwood Cobblestone CGC TT, Claire whelped 3 boys and 3 girls. Sire is BISS bronze GCH Captiva s Quitte Ou Double, Eliot, owned by John and Heidi Laabs of Wisconsin. They wish to thank Paula Fannin and Petey for coming and handling it all. So much to learn~~~
Events & Activities Shows/ Specialties 2013 Memorial Weekend Cluster (May 23 May 27) We are now on crunch time for the end of May. > JR's BAR B Que is catering the entrees which include: Whole baked ham and chicken for Saturday. Grilled hamburgers, hotdogs and kielbasa for "Picnic Sunday "with the buns and cheese included. Also the sternos, etc. Petey will return to cochair with Shirley. Additional help throughout will be needed making it easy for people to just pitch in as the day goes. Set up, organizing, clean up etc. The caterers are only preparing the food we have hired them for, nothing more. Members are asked to bring a side, salad or dessert for each day. Shirley is organizing the menu so we don't have too much of any one thing. Please check with her to see what has already been added to her list. The club will provide the beverages/ice. Contact Shirley at sasem@comcast.net >Joan is doing our ring floral decorations. >Joan is chairing the grooming table raffle. ALL UNSOLD TICKETS NEED TO BE RETURNED SO WE KNOW WHETHER WE NEED TO ORDER ADDITIONAL TICKETS. Please contact Joan at joanfiser@zoominternet.net to let her know the status of the tickets you were mailed. This will be drawn on Sunday following BOB judging. BASKET RAFFLE -If you are bringing a basket for the basket raffle directly to New Castle, it should be there by Thursday. We sell most of our raffle tickets for the baskets and the table ringside Thursday and Friday. If you want to get it to me before hand, you will need to bring it to my house. I would like to have the bags and labels ready before we get there, if possible. Please let me know what you are planning. This will finish Saturday following BOB judging. >Help is needed Thursday and Friday MAIN ringside from early morning thru the start of group judging to no one person must stay at the raffles all day. If you are planning to be at the show site those two days, let us know. Saturday is OUR ringside. You may contact Bob at rjsem@comcast.net with any of the above. >Robin Morris is chairing the Craft for Rescue sale table. She has it well under control. She could use some help. This is Saturday. Contact Robin at RobinSMorris@comcast.net for information or questions, or to let her know if you have a crafty item to donate. She has cookie recipes if you would like to bake a few dog cookies. All arrangements for grounds, tables, trophies, awards, golf cart etc. are all complete. The 2014 National Specialty will be held in Sandusky OH in June with the host club the Irish Setter Club of Michigan. Our members who attended the National in VA did not hear the announcement to where the Information packets were located in order to pick some up. Deb has made an inquiry about obtaining several packets.
Website- www.gtisc.org All information and updates are available on our website. Check in periodically throughout the month for the most up to date club news. Please continue to send your own personal photos and updates to Deb to be added to our website. As always, thank you to Tammy Boice to keeping our website up to date. New Membership We have received an application from Cathryn Brandau and her granddaughter, Taylor. We are hoping that they can make the May Meeting so we can officially make them members. They reside in the Shadyside area of Pittsburgh. Cathryn had Irish Setters many years ago and contacted us for a show male. She now owns a male from Mary Merlo, Evergreen Irish Setters. From the Rescue Side~~~~ HI Everyone. Joan Fiser here again. I was hoping that maybe one of the club members other than me would write about their rescues. We do have a few that have rescues and who also work for shelters finding homes for these wonderful animals. Over the years I have helped animals other than dogs and other than Red dogs. For 20 plus years I have my cat that was thrown from a car window when she was only few weeks old. Lucky for HOPE, she was rescued by a state trooper who stopped traffic to pick this little black and white kitten up off the road. In doing this, the "Bad" guys got away. I was a founding member and board officer of Rainbow Animal Refuse, INC. here in Butler and it is still helping animals today! We had only been together for about a year and then we got a call from a local vet telling us about Hope. Would we help with her expenses and find her a home? YES.. Hope was fostered by a member of Rainbow. She had her right front leg removed to the shoulder, and her left front leg was broken. So our Nancy from the club took Hope home and kept her till she was able to be adopted. I took Hope to Life Steps and other projects to show that even a cat can overcome disabilities. Hope stayed with this person and that person most of her young life. She was a one cat home. This made it hard to find her a home. My brother even kept her where she had the pleasure of being inside and outside. Then she came back to me and I couldn't keep her with my dogs seemed to want to hurt her. So to Pet Co she went to be adopted. She stayed there for about a month no one wanted her. The board at that time decided the best thing would be to put her down. I stepped in said no way So she had lived at my store in Butler for 10 years. I think she got other store owners to adopt cats for their stores. Hope had her favorite people coming in on their lunch breaks to buy things for her. So in 2009 when I retired and closed my store in Butler, Hope came home to live with me. She is still going strong and making the Red Dogs crazy. Give all of yours a HUG. God Bless. Joan and MY Red Heads
Hope An update on the young male Irish setter, Guinness, at Animal Friends: Joan reports he has been adopted. We welcome back to our Rescue Column Bailey who owns Laura and now new little sister, Abbey. We are pleased to have received this in time to make this month s news letter. Hello all,,, Do you remember me? I am Bailey from Baltimore. Mom and I contributed for quite some time as it turns out. I have had my forever home for 6 years now. Tonight was very special for us. We read through the archives and relived our journey. From Congratulations to us March 2007 and then my Mom's straight from the heart "Ode to ME,,, Bailey April 2007. We had a good ride for a long time. But then life happened. We participated pretty much until my Grandma Fizzle became ill and passed in 2010. So, we have been absent. Maybe absent from the column but not absent at home. Ruby and I were here with Mom the whole time. I knew how to kiss and sit by my Grand mom Fizzle and how to lay right next to Mom and Ruby through the tough times. To get you all up to date. I am one handsome gentleman these days. I am the proud boy of my Mom. I greet guests with a paw, not a jump. I gently kiss when invited and walk people to the kitchen when they need anything. Then I lie down on my wag bag and enjoy the company of all who visit. Ruby growing along with me. She was a bit more spry than I, but we were like peas and carrots. When Mom said Bed we went. Ruby on the bed and me on my way bag. I'd like to say we did everything together, different paces but side by side. March 1st, I lost my little sister, to an unusual event. Mom and I walking around not knowing what to do. So, Mom did what she always does. "Call the ones who love the red dogs." Aunt Deb asked "what is the plan?." Mom said her and I were so very lost and, as you know, from our columns "there is always room for 2." Some people need time. Some people jump in with both feet. Mom and I are jumpers. We put it in Aunt Deb and God's hands, knowing when it's time it will happen. Turns out it happened immediately. Too fast to even think about it. Mom and Aunt Wendi went to Virginia Beach and life began again. So, Mom and I happily announce, I have a new little sister. Her name is Abbey. We have tossed the spelling around a bit, but we decided on Abbey from the Beatles, because as you older followers will remember WE SING IN THIS HOUSE. When Mom sings Abbey runs to her and nuzzles. I simply raise my head from the way bag and wink. My bones are getting a little older. THE BEST NEWS I CAN SHARE IS... NOW I'M THE BOSS. Took 6 years to be head of the household but I am (after Mom of course). Ruby was not a fan of sharing the bed. Lately, I wander up there and just lay down. But I still prefer my wag bag for the most part. And guess what? Abbey finds a spot too. Only for awake time. Abbey must sleep in her bedroom kennel when lights go out for safety. I notice she understands that and that's not a problem. Now me snoring has become a bit of an issue. Mom moves down to the bottom of the bed and reaches to my bag where I sleep and rubs my tummy and says "move over". I get it. I move around a bit and slow the snoring down. I do understand that she needs a little sleep too. Nice to say Hi to you all again. We remain very happy in Baltimore with much to share,,, So Goodbye for now... Mom, Bailey Handsome and Sweet Abbey. (She's sweet but doesn't know how much Mom and I miss Little Ruby... but she has softened the loss for sure.)
Rescues are our Champions of the Heart! Club News and Reminders Please RSVP to Bob and/or Shirley about Memorial Day weekend. Once our shows are behind us, we would like to have some meetings to include guests/speakers. If there is a particular subject that you would care to learn about, please share your thoughts and ideas. We also want to schedule CGC testing, which is for EVERYONE. If there is an event you would like for us to hold, please share your ideas. Our Members Fall Fun Day had to be cancelled last fall. We would like to schedule that again this year. It is a great social day for our members. Our next general membership meeting is Saturday May 25 th, at the show site following BOB and our end of the day festivities approximately 2:30 3:00 p.m. We will meet at the ring. The Golden Triangle Irish Setter Club, Inc President Bob Semich Vice President Joan Fiser Recording Secretary / Treasurer Deb Lawrence Corresponding Secretary George Towle Board Member Ruth White Board Member Tally Ling Board Member Coleen McGee Rescue Joan Fiser Caring Shamrocks Tally Ling Newsletter Deb Lawrence Editing Joan Fiser & George Towle Dog News information provided from members ALL articles welcomed!