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Raisin
Raisin was a dream-come-true Irish Setter! She was the 21st Irish Setter in the history of the Irish Setter Club of America to accomplish a dual championship. A dual championship is awarded when a pointing dog breed completes both a conformation AKC championship and an AKC field championship. Raisin also earned the CKC titles of Field Dog Excellent and Companion Dog in obedience, as well as, the AKC performance titles of Master Hunter, Versatility Certificate Excellent, and Companion Dog in obedience. She had group placements and a Best in Specialty win to her credit in Canada. She obtained the first major win for her AKC championship title at the MISA show under James Covey for 5 points, and the next major win was the following weekend at Tualatin under Christina Hubbell. Raisin was a shining example of what our show bred Irish Setters can accomplish when given the opportunity to do all that they are able to do. Raisin was described as "born broke" as a bird dog. She was a full-sized, on breed standard, Irish Setter, weighing in at approx. 60 lbs and 25 inches at the shoulder.
Had any of these people contacted me, which they did not, in fact no one who has bred to pedigrees with Roxy and Raisin has ever contacted me, and here I am an open book, and would have told them that Roxy had severe spondylosis at 3 years of age and died of kidney failure. That I kept all but two of her puppies after one I had shipped out developed HOD. That one went to a show home and was the first in the litter to develop HOD (he recovered) but later died suddenly of pneumothorax (spontaneous hole in lung) at 17 mos old. Three other littermates developed HOD and recovered. Everyone of them had marked to severe spondylosis. Four bloated and were saved. The others had preventative gastropexies. (This was some seriously big money that came from my income as a teacher, four emergency bloats and then gastropexies and I only sold one puppy from that litter, not raking in thousands like people using Raisin's name to sell their puppies have). And a second one suddenly died from spontaneous pneumothorax (which is an extremely rare condition and very very unusual to have two in one litter). Another died of kidney failure as an older dog. That dog (Raisin's sister) had a litter and 4 of that litter bloated as well and all have marked spondylosis. |
~ Pedigree ~
Whelped: October 1, 2001
Am/Can Ch Kulana Qismet's Rhuzara CD TDX Am TD CGC |
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Ch Russell's Roxy Roller |
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Am. Ch Pompei's First Class | ||
Click here to see a 4 generation picture pedigree for Raisin with health clearance information
Raisin growing up - puppy pictures
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