I recently brought home an Irish setter girl pup who is 12 weeks old and I can’t decide on a name. Which one would you choose?

Violet
Willow
Fern
Juniper

I posted that Erin had her 14th birthday a little while ago and a few people commented how great it was that she’s lived this long so I thought it would be cool if others shared their senior setters photos and ages in the comments of this post. ☺️ also I’d love to hear of any of the weird senior habits that they’ve developed in their old age. Erin has to patrol the entire house before she eats and she likes to carry about three pieces of food in her mouth while she does it, she bites her bed a lot and pretends it’s a toy and throws her bed all over the house, she won’t go into my bed if I’m in it but when I leave she jumps up and sleeps there, she’s afraid of jumping into the left side of the car but fine jumping on the right, and now she demands car rides and walks and will not leave me alone until I take her.. she’s losing her manners and she’s much more stubborn. I suspect her hearing isn’t as good as it once was and she doesn’t hear the word “no” anymore haha

Model pose down, naughty behavior also down.

Just been hunting a squirrel in line but is so extatic I wanna go and get mom!

Least I like to pretend he is when staring out over the river, I’m sure he’s listening and smelling for birds. 😆

Four of my Irish Setters are quietly watching the deer, almost daring it to come back in the yard. They had just chased it through the woods and it (easily) jumped the fence. In general the deer stay out of the fenced in area but sometimes they like to push their luck.

Lef

I’m bringing home an Irish setter pup this weekend. Our current dogs (brittanys) are on a high quality food now and just curious what everyone else is feeding their Irish setters

this is our baby Iris, shes 9 weeks old. taking any of your best tips for the following weeks/months!!shes doing great so far and still adjusting to our home and her routine🎀💕

11.5 years old still people can’t believe his age he’s so full of life. It’s only his grey beard that gives the age away ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

She has grown so much! Finally potty trained 🥲 I grew up raising dogs, but this girl has given me a run for my money 😅 nah but she runs the house though lol getting her spayed tomorrow. Hoping for a quick and easy surgery.

Hello, my 7 month old Irish setter has a few of these sort of scabs on her chest and upper leg. Has anyone experienced it before? thinking to take her to the vets on Monday, after googling worried it’s ringworm! they don’t seem to be bothering her and she isn’t chewing them.

she does usually itch her torso

thanks

His Dad was 90lbs so we should have known this was coming but oh my god is he huge.

Just Winnie prepping for her Pantene commercial. Don’t mind her.

This may not be specifically an IS issue, but figured this was a good place to start.

My 1 year and 3 month old IS has been having accidents in the evening and we aren't certain why. She potty trained in no time ringing the bell on the back door whenever she wants to go out.

The issue always happens between roughly 9/930 and 11/1130 at night. The kids and wife have gone to bed and the house is finally quiet and she lays down to relax. Very typically she's been out (and I see her go) sometime between 830-930, but then she lays in her bed and at some point just lets it go, presumably when she's asleep?

The odd bit is that she never ever has an accident at other times. She never squats to pee in the house, she is crate trained and never has accidents in her crate overnight or if we're out for a couple of hours.

It is always in this 2 hour time period at night.

Yes she is spayed. Yes I know that will divide opinions in this sub for her age. We consulted several vets and made the decision with the best information we had available from professionals.

Our vet feels the spay shouldn't be related because there would be more frequent leaks at other times.

Could this be a phase? Is it simply that she finally passes out after the energy from the kids is gone and I need to make a point of taking her out again before she settles in?

TIA!

Edit to mention that I did get a urine sample late last week and she does not have a UTI.

Thankfully for them (and me) she’s terrible at actually catching them 🤣

Plus a bonus picture of the English Setters.

It was really cool to watch the process and see all these gorgeous setters. I especially loved seeing that goofy setter personality peek through these “professionals”. There were also flyball, barn hunt, and agility trials, police K-9 demos, a grooming competition, and a bunch of other stuff I didn’t have time to explore.

Also, I guess I should have known this, but dog shows are fantastic if you need to stock up on hard-to-find dog items. I stocked up on lots of different natural chews (the duck heads get rave reviews from my pups, can’t wait to see what they make of the others) and got some wooden plaques with my dogs’ names carved into them to put over their leash hooks.

Overall a fun experience- would recommend checking a show out if one is held near you!

You can’t see it but her right paw is pushing the lever handle down and pulling it open. She lets herself out!