About Linwood English Setters
Now Co-Breeding with Amber Bach-Gorman
Why we breed & what we stand for:
We are committed to breeding beautiful, healthy English Setters with stable temperaments who make great family pets & personal gun dogs. Linwood Setters are bred to be competitive in Conformation AND Field Events. Recently we've added Therapy Work, Rally & Agility to the mix.
That’s a couple of long sentences with a lot packed into them.
We stand behind every word.
BENE: CH, MH, BN, CGC, TDI
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LIN: I got my 1st English Setter from Barbara Oakes in 1978: CH Five Oakes Token of Linwood. I drove from Wisconsin to upstate New York & back over Fourth of July weekend to get “Token”. My life has been filled with travel, good times & these beautiful dogs ever since. I consider it a bonus that Setter People have become my closest friends! I chose my 1st dog from Five Oakes knowing they hailed from the Heljax kennel (where Helen Kilgus’s show dogs were her husband Jack Kilgus’s personal gundogs for generations behind my Token). My dogs have placed & won consistently at Regional & National English Setter Specialties all over the US & also in Canada. As beautiful as these dogs are in the show ring, their finest moments for me are in the field. There is nothing quite as graceful as a Setter covering a grassy meadow in search of birds….. nothing so breathtaking as the intensity of a Setter staunch on point.
I've bred close working “Hunt Test” style dogs for many generations now. In recent years I've been breeding for bigger running dogs that can compete in all-breed horseback field trials. Hopefully a Dual Champion is on my horizon sometime soon.
