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Last Updates:
11/15/08 - A sad final update to Lucy's page
05/01/06 - Air Fancy & Ground Chuck :-)
08/11/05 - Another update to Fancy's Page (and her favorite tree)
07/23/05 - Fancy's turn at the Cleveland Irish Festival
06/26/05 - FINALLY A New reddogs Webpage and ...
07/02/05 - An update to Fancy's Page
10/16/04 - A new Bloat Prevention webpage (PLEASE READ!)
09/27/04 - Kirby's Show Pictures (AKC point #9 :-)
02/08/03 - Fancy Comes to Camp Cocoman (and stays! :-)

Photo"All My Children" by Thomas and Thomas Studio
Bay Village, Ohio

Litter by Susan Musil
Lunn's Irish Setters - Strongsville, Ohio

Maybe you've seen this picture of 9 Irish Setter puppies before ... it was featured on two Cleveland TV stations in 1995, it won all kinds of awards for the photographer, it's been on exhibit at the Epcot Center in DisneyWorld, and posters of it are still available at www.setterstuff.com. I'm owned by the front row-center puppy, Lunn's I Love Lucy (CGC, AAT).

The last picture taken during the "All My Children" photo session. (They look like all of us who were there felt !!! :-) Photo by Thomas and Thomas Studio Bay Village, Ohio

SURPRISE ... Lucy grew up!

Then I brought home a playmate (?) for her!

Lunn's'Say Goodnight Gracie' (CGC, TDI)

Lucy and Gracie shared the same mother but had different fathers. I don't know what that said about their mother ...

Ch. Lunn's Taylor Maid

(After winning the Veteran's Class at the Irish Setter Club of Ohio Specialty - 7/12/97)

... but it did make Lucy and Gracie half-sisters :-)

Gracie and Lucy - July 1995

(Photo by Thomas & Thomas, Bay Village, Ohio

Lucy and Gracie

July, 1997

Lucy and Gracie, Havin' a Ball :-)
May, 1998

Gaye Cocoman
Number of Legs: 2
Born in Kenmore, NY the year the won the World Series.
Currently living on a half-acre in Macedonia, Ohio
Profession: DBA at Penske Logistics Technology Center
Member: Delta Society, Irish Setter Club of America (ISCA), Irish Setter Club of Ohio (ISCO)
Hobbies: Making my red dogs happy; making my red dogs miserable; antiques (particularly 19th century photographic images and daguerreotypes); filling my house with Irish Setter collectibles (if you don't believe me, check out my collectibles page! :-); planting grass in the backyard and then watching the dogs destroy it; playing with Lucy, Kirby and Fancy; playing with my PC.
Pet Peeve: Making sure that their water bowl is always clean and filled with fresh water and then watching them drink out of a mud puddle!!!

Me and the girls, Sept. 1996
After a brisk 3-mile walk

(Okay, they look like 2 baby birds waiting for a worm :-)

Visit Lucy's page

"LUCY"

It's been written that the Irish Setter is "mischievous and independent, intelligent and stubborn, anxious to please and yet determined to have its way if it decides to go hunting or steal a treasure from closet or drawer". I couldn't have described Lucy any better myself though I would also emphatically add "good-natured" to the list of Lucy's attributes! :-)

"Fragile Circle"

"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan."

Irving Townsend

If you're a regular reddogs visitor, then you know that my Gracie Annie-Fanny died suddenly and unexpectedly in May 2002. Although no one could take Gracie's place in my heart, one of the pups from Gracie's half-sister Robin's litter, born 3/22/02, made Lucy and me a family of 3 again (and found his own place in my heart).

Meet Kirby

Then along came Kirby's half-sister Fancy and now we're a family of 4!

Meet Fancy

Please think twice...when you patronize a pet shop that sells puppies, you're patronizing a business that supports the continued existence of puppy mills.

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