Our Beautiful Bella and handsome Edward were rescued with the help of Tuscola Animal Control. These two young Irish Setters are as sweet as sweet can be. They both are a bit thin, but we estimate their age to be a year. Edward was neutered on 1/12/2010 and Bella will be spayed this week.
We are looking for a home with time to devote, Either for one or two. Since they are highly active a fenced yard is a plus. They will be working on basic obedience in their foster homes.
Can you make a happy ending for Bella or Edward?
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Hi Sherri,
Bella and Edward are both beautiful Irish Setters.......just wanted to add a note about adopting a year old setter. We had put in for Rowan earlier this year and while waiting to hear if he had been adopted I watched the Cardinal's baseball game here and the dog looking for a home was a setter named Heidi..........I was glued to the set watching her but because we have always had male Irish Setters and fact I was waiting to hear on Rowan did not do more than look her up online and bookmark the site. Fast forward a week and I heard from you all that Rowan had been adopted so we put here in St Louis to adopt Heidi.....at 14 months she came home and is now known as Molly .
For anyone who loves Irish Setters as I do I had always gotten a 12 week old puppy and raised them myself. We had lost our old gentleman Irish in May of 08 and our inherited Brittany Mix the next month and my husband said absolutely no more dogs. Well it started with my showing him Rowan and telling him he would be already trained and ended up with our Miss Molly who was not really trained at all. We have had her 4 months and what a breeze this has been. Three accidents in the house, a halti corrected the walking issues....fifiteen minutes of walking with me and positive reinforcement with treats and she was heeling and sitting like a show dog!! She was used to a crate but has run of our home and we use the crate only when we are gone.....has graduated to being uncrated for anytimes we will be gone less than two hours and working toward crate begone here! Never crated her at night as she found a rug and pillow and her blanket next to the bed to be more comfy and was content to stay by us. Irish Setters are smart dogs and if you will work with them and use a positive reinforcement of treats and voice they will learn very quickly to please you as that is what they love to do. Molly has already learned so many tricks here that I am on lookout for new ones to teach her all the time. She does love to wrestle with a water polo ball in the yard if she is not busy shaking the birds out of the bushes. I found her at 14 months to be just as wild as our boy setters were if you allow it. Walks were where she first learned who was the boss here as the Halti stopped her from pulling....really impressed everyone who saw us bring the wild Irish Setter home when they saw her two days later promenading like a show dog and sitting while I talked to them. She offers her paw to greet anyone and everyone.
I know from training 6 Irish Setter puppies we got at 12 weeks that it was repeat and repeat and repeat the lesson until they were about 15 to 18 months old as they are somewhat slow to mature. Molly at 14 months was so easy to train obedience wise as she was right at the age where they learn fast if you will work with them. She was terribly thin when she came home but is now at her ideal weight and her gobbling food is a thing of the past due to use of an angel food pan for a week. We do not remove her food dish here so she knows she does not have to gobble the food. I have never had an Irish Setter be overweight ( or bloat ) and have always fed them this way. We divide her food for AM and PM and just let her eat when she is ready to eat....if she empties it I do not add more til evening. We have found that all our setters want us in the room when they eat so she usually eats while I am fixing breakfast or while we are eating dinner . I use a different type of dog food for training treats....Chef Micheals Filet Migon ( does not add all the empty calories and are small so you can give her more treats while working with her ) works wonderful and the one meal pouches are now lasting over two weeks as we have tranistioned over to using voice reinforcement praise only on most of the training except the daily show off trick time . Shredding paper was her big delight and was driving me crazy when it was the newspaper I was going to read but something happened here over Christmas which has helped stop her doing that very often now. We had wrapped her gifts and Santa was very good to Molly so she had lots of new toys and bones to unwrap.....she loved unwrapping things and finding something to play with inside....so a roll of butcher's paper and just rewrap a toy or two and leave them hidden for her to find has solved the constant shredding of paper here. The digging in the yard we are still working on but also remember our first ( and until Molly the best behaved of our setters) dug for the first two years and just seemed to outgrow it when we kept filling his holes in so hoping that will work in spring with Molly also.
I never thought we would have a dog as nice as our first Irish Setter , Shilo as far as behavior but Molly is close to it now and we think she may even surpass our Shilo. To anyone thinking of adopting one of these year old setters know you still have the puppines in them but also how easy they respond to love and training which makes them the perfect companion dog for a family. They love to play fetch and with toys and will walk with you as far as you want to walk ...wonderful also if you love to jog. We have a regular sized yard here and have found with our walking them and just letting them play outside they get enough excerise. We do not know our Molly's history or reason she was given up for adoption....we can guess at some of it as having had setters since 1973 we have heard the horror stories of untrained dogs who just tear the house up . That is why Molly was with one of us always the first month if she was not in her crate so we could undo the lack of housetraining as far as living inside a house. I worried a lot about the Christmas tree going up here and ornaments and found out by then we had her trained so well that she never touched one ornament on the tree....only thing she did was hide her dog bones under the tree skirt which we did find hilarious here. Hoping by spring the crate is in storage here and Halti on way out....and thinking perhaps this might be the dog I look into training to do volunteer work with. I hope Bella and Edward soon have their forever homes and that their owners find all the love and fun an Irish Setter brings to your life.
Shy
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Bella and Edward are both beautiful Irish Setters.......just wanted to add a note about adopting a year old setter. We had put in for Rowan earlier this year and while waiting to hear if he had been adopted I watched the Cardinal's baseball game here and the dog looking for a home was a setter named Heidi..........I was glued to the set watching her but because we have always had male Irish Setters and fact I was waiting to hear on Rowan did not do more than look her up online and bookmark the site. Fast forward a week and I heard from you all that Rowan had been adopted so we put here in St Louis to adopt Heidi.....at 14 months she came home and is now known as Molly .
For anyone who loves Irish Setters as I do I had always gotten a 12 week old puppy and raised them myself. We had lost our old gentleman Irish in May of 08 and our inherited Brittany Mix the next month and my husband said absolutely no more dogs. Well it started with my showing him Rowan and telling him he would be already trained and ended up with our Miss Molly who was not really trained at all. We have had her 4 months and what a breeze this has been. Three accidents in the house, a halti corrected the walking issues....fifiteen minutes of walking with me and positive reinforcement with treats and she was heeling and sitting like a show dog!! She was used to a crate but has run of our home and we use the crate only when we are gone.....has graduated to being uncrated for anytimes we will be gone less than two hours and working toward crate begone here! Never crated her at night as she found a rug and pillow and her blanket next to the bed to be more comfy and was content to stay by us. Irish Setters are smart dogs and if you will work with them and use a positive reinforcement of treats and voice they will learn very quickly to please you as that is what they love to do. Molly has already learned so many tricks here that I am on lookout for new ones to teach her all the time. She does love to wrestle with a water polo ball in the yard if she is not busy shaking the birds out of the bushes. I found her at 14 months to be just as wild as our boy setters were if you allow it. Walks were where she first learned who was the boss here as the Halti stopped her from pulling....really impressed everyone who saw us bring the wild Irish Setter home when they saw her two days later promenading like a show dog and sitting while I talked to them. She offers her paw to greet anyone and everyone.
I know from training 6 Irish Setter puppies we got at 12 weeks that it was repeat and repeat and repeat the lesson until they were about 15 to 18 months old as they are somewhat slow to mature. Molly at 14 months was so easy to train obedience wise as she was right at the age where they learn fast if you will work with them. She was terribly thin when she came home but is now at her ideal weight and her gobbling food is a thing of the past due to use of an angel food pan for a week. We do not remove her food dish here so she knows she does not have to gobble the food. I have never had an Irish Setter be overweight ( or bloat ) and have always fed them this way. We divide her food for AM and PM and just let her eat when she is ready to eat....if she empties it I do not add more til evening. We have found that all our setters want us in the room when they eat so she usually eats while I am fixing breakfast or while we are eating dinner . I use a different type of dog food for training treats....Chef Micheals Filet Migon ( does not add all the empty calories and are small so you can give her more treats while working with her ) works wonderful and the one meal pouches are now lasting over two weeks as we have tranistioned over to using voice reinforcement praise only on most of the training except the daily show off trick time . Shredding paper was her big delight and was driving me crazy when it was the newspaper I was going to read but something happened here over Christmas which has helped stop her doing that very often now. We had wrapped her gifts and Santa was very good to Molly so she had lots of new toys and bones to unwrap.....she loved unwrapping things and finding something to play with inside....so a roll of butcher's paper and just rewrap a toy or two and leave them hidden for her to find has solved the constant shredding of paper here. The digging in the yard we are still working on but also remember our first ( and until Molly the best behaved of our setters) dug for the first two years and just seemed to outgrow it when we kept filling his holes in so hoping that will work in spring with Molly also.
I never thought we would have a dog as nice as our first Irish Setter , Shilo as far as behavior but Molly is close to it now and we think she may even surpass our Shilo. To anyone thinking of adopting one of these year old setters know you still have the puppines in them but also how easy they respond to love and training which makes them the perfect companion dog for a family. They love to play fetch and with toys and will walk with you as far as you want to walk ...wonderful also if you love to jog. We have a regular sized yard here and have found with our walking them and just letting them play outside they get enough excerise. We do not know our Molly's history or reason she was given up for adoption....we can guess at some of it as having had setters since 1973 we have heard the horror stories of untrained dogs who just tear the house up . That is why Molly was with one of us always the first month if she was not in her crate so we could undo the lack of housetraining as far as living inside a house. I worried a lot about the Christmas tree going up here and ornaments and found out by then we had her trained so well that she never touched one ornament on the tree....only thing she did was hide her dog bones under the tree skirt which we did find hilarious here. Hoping by spring the crate is in storage here and Halti on way out....and thinking perhaps this might be the dog I look into training to do volunteer work with. I hope Bella and Edward soon have their forever homes and that their owners find all the love and fun an Irish Setter brings to your life.
Shy
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Shy
Molly is beautiful, thank you so very much for giving your heart and home to her and sharing her story.
Perhaps Molly would like a brother?
Molly is beautiful, thank you so very much for giving your heart and home to her and sharing her story.
Perhaps Molly would like a brother?
QUOTE (Sherri @ Jan 13 2010, 07:16 AM) 
Shy
Molly is beautiful, thank you so very much for giving your heart and home to her and sharing her story.
Perhaps Molly would like a brother?
Molly is beautiful, thank you so very much for giving your heart and home to her and sharing her story.
Perhaps Molly would like a brother?
I would love another one but was lucky to talk my husband into this one!!!! and the NO MORE dog man here is a sucker for Molly big time. I do think that the reason I always had male dogs was because I knew they would bond closest to me and sure enough Molly worships the ground my husband walks on here.........we just call him Molly's boytoy now!! Molly's video from the Cardinal game is on U tube (under Heidi the Irish Setter , I believe).
Do you often adopt out of state? Irish Setters are not real common here in St Louis unless you go to a breeder near Kansas City and seldom do you now see one looking to be rescued here in St Louis......I haunted our local humane society sites for a year looking for one and Molly was the first one I found here in that year. If so I will pass the information on to a few people I know who might be interested( and to some of the people who ask me about Molly when we are walking that wish they could find one like her) .I will continue to follow Bella and Edward here and hope the luck of the Irish will soon find them in their forever homes. I am so tempted but know better than to press my luck.
I love what you all do on here and there was no need to thank us for taking Molly in.....we were so lucky to be able to be her forever home....especially since I truly thought my Irish Setter days were over and had been looking to sneak a small dog into our home when I found your site and saw Rowan............fact he would have been completely trained is only way I got him to let me apply for him and then along came Molly. SO I guess in a way I owe our having Molly to your having Rowan on your site!
Shy
Shy, thank you so much for your beautiful words about Setters. That kind of knowledge is invaluable to prospective families. Knowing that they really mature and blossom late, will guarentee more of them stay in thier homes, hopefully. I will make sure to keep a copy to be able to pass along to others in the future. I have learned in this "business" of rescue that, "Things happen cause they're supposed to." I believe you were meant to have this little girl, but it took Rowan to make you realize it. Someone upstairs used Rowan as the bait to get you interested, then pulled him away after your appetite was whetted, and VIOLA the little girl just happened to be availabe at exactly the appropriate time. You can't convince me that it was all just one big coincedence. You watch, she will turn out to be an exceptional dog, cause of her relationship with you. She has a job to do here on earth, and the angels made sure she came to just the right person that will let her fulfill her destiny.
Keep us updated on Heidi to show us what her destiny is. Thank you again, and enjoy your little "fur-girl."
Keep us updated on Heidi to show us what her destiny is. Thank you again, and enjoy your little "fur-girl."
QUOTE (Dawn @ Jan 15 2010, 04:07 PM)
Shy, thank you so much for your beautiful words about Setters. That kind of knowledge is invaluable to prospective families. Knowing that they really mature and blossom late, will guarentee more of them stay in thier homes, hopefully. I will make sure to keep a copy to be able to pass along to others in the future. I have learned in this "business" of rescue that, "Things happen cause they're supposed to." I believe you were meant to have this little girl, but it took Rowan to make you realize it. Someone upstairs used Rowan as the bait to get you interested, then pulled him away after your appetite was whetted, and VIOLA the little girl just happened to be availabe at exactly the appropriate time. You can't convince me that it was all just one big coincedence. You watch, she will turn out to be an exceptional dog, cause of her relationship with you. She has a job to do here on earth, and the angels made sure she came to just the right person that will let her fulfill her destiny.
Keep us updated on Heidi to show us what her destiny is. Thank you again, and enjoy your little "fur-girl."
Keep us updated on Heidi to show us what her destiny is. Thank you again, and enjoy your little "fur-girl."
Dawn,
If I can help in anyway with information on Irish Setters....puppy or adopting an older dog please let me know. My purpose in writing about Molly was to encourage others to adopt Bella or Edward. Have had puppies always before Molly and to be honest I would adopt an older dog like Molly again in a heartbeat as this really has been easy here to train her into a wonderful companion. Lots less work than my puppies were!
Shy
Bless your heart, Shy. I will keep that in mind and contact you whenever we, or prospective owners have ANY questions. I know you will be a big help for a lot of dogs. By the way, when you want to post a reply, scroll down a little further and click on ADD REPLY, instead of "REPLY". That way the whole previous message won't be repeated in the post, OK?
Bella and Edward have ear infections, that are being treated.
Shy, Thank you again for all the info you sent about Setters. I am going to forward the info to the lady who started fostering Bella today. She is very knowledgable about dogs, but as you know, we can all learn something new. By the way, yes we do adopt out of state. We have placed dogs in several different states, even Canada. However, we do not ship our dogs. The person has to come here to meet the dog and then can take them home with them. Some people have driven great distances to get thier new "fur-kids"
Dawn,
Thankyou for the information about adopting out of state.....and love that you do not ship dogs and that people adopting one of your dogs have to meet them to pick them up ......is exactly what I would have done if we had gotten Rowan !! I will forward information on here to someone who is also a Irish Setter fan that I met after we brought Molly home. She does have two....one older and one just Molly's age who are both males. She wavered on adopting our Molly and regretted it later so perhaps she may be interested in adding another Irish to her home.
I hope Bella's and Edward's ear infections are cleared up soon.....as a setter owner I know that faster you tackle that problem the sooner they feel better and hopefully less persistent ear infections can be....follow up checkup is vital to be sure you really got rid of pesky infection. I hope Bella settles in nicely at her foster home....and that her foster mother is prepared to lose her heart to her!! I have been checking a couple times of day following Bella and Edward......have to laugh as I did not get the names until my daughter told me it was from the New Moon book series and movie! Hoping soon they both will be settling into forever and ever homes. If I can help with any information, please , just let me know.
Shy
Thankyou for the information about adopting out of state.....and love that you do not ship dogs and that people adopting one of your dogs have to meet them to pick them up ......is exactly what I would have done if we had gotten Rowan !! I will forward information on here to someone who is also a Irish Setter fan that I met after we brought Molly home. She does have two....one older and one just Molly's age who are both males. She wavered on adopting our Molly and regretted it later so perhaps she may be interested in adding another Irish to her home.
I hope Bella's and Edward's ear infections are cleared up soon.....as a setter owner I know that faster you tackle that problem the sooner they feel better and hopefully less persistent ear infections can be....follow up checkup is vital to be sure you really got rid of pesky infection. I hope Bella settles in nicely at her foster home....and that her foster mother is prepared to lose her heart to her!! I have been checking a couple times of day following Bella and Edward......have to laugh as I did not get the names until my daughter told me it was from the New Moon book series and movie! Hoping soon they both will be settling into forever and ever homes. If I can help with any information, please , just let me know.
Shy
Edward is being fostered by Karen and is doing well and gaining some much needed weight.
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