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The Irish Red and White Setter (Irish: An Sotar Rua agus B?n) is a breed of dog. As with all setters, it is classified as a gundog in the UK and is included in the sporting group in America and Canada. It is virtually identical in use and temperament to the related Irish Setter, as well as the Gordon and English setters, but is more often found as a working gun dog.
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Irish Red and White Setter Scott Barbour/Getty Images Only 82 of these pretty dogs were registered by the Kennel Club in 2013, but determined breeders have kept the setters from going extinct so far.
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Irish Red and White Setter. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
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Irish RW Setter, IRWS : Yellow Retriever, Golden Flat Coat : Breed Type : Purebred : Purebred : AKC Group : Recognized by the American Kennel Club in 2009 as a Sporting breed. Recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1925 as a Sporting breed. FCI Group : Recognized by FCI in the Pointing Dogs group, in the British and Irish Pointers and ...
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This was when the fashion for solid coloured red setters began and the decline in red and white setter numbers continued. The popularity of the solid red Irish Setter in both America and Ireland gained strength as they attracted very high prices, all adding to the demise of the red and white almost to the point of extinction. A handful of breeders in remote parts of Ireland kept the breed alive.
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Irish Red And White Setter in Tallinn. Thanks to the efforts of an early 20th-century Irish clergyman, Noble Huston, the breed survived, but only in small numbers in the island of Ireland. From...
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  • The Irish Red and White Setter is not as well known as his dazzling cousin, the Irish Setter, with only about 500 dogs in North America. Even in Ireland, the breed nearly went extinct during World War I. It took the dedication of a handful of breeders over decades to keep the Irish Red and White Setter breed alive.
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Why is the Irish Red-and-White Setter still almost unknown? Accidents of history, graduations of glamour, and whether the rich and famous, the author, or the film director had one or the other catch their eye first.
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In 1969, Willy Gaynor, read that the Irish Red and White Setter was extinct. John Nash, the famous breeder of working Irish Red Setters, told him that Mrs Maureen Cuddy was no longer breeding any Red and White Setters, but that Dermot Mooney was still trying to keep the breed alive.
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  • The Irish Red and White Setter is not as well known as his dazzling cousin, the Irish Setter, with only about 500 dogs in North America. Even in Ireland, the breed nearly went extinct during World War I. It took the dedication of a handful of breeders over decades to keep the Irish Red and White Setter breed alive.
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The Irish Red and White Setter is a breed of dog. As with all setters, it is classified as a gundog in the UK and is included in the sporting group in America and Canada. It is virtually identical in use and temperament to the related Irish Setter, as well as the Gordon and English setters, but is more often found as a working gun dog. The original purpose of the breed was to hunt gamebirds. In the UK, their quarry can be partridge or grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, blackgame, snipe or woodcock as

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