One of my favorite TV channels is Encore Westerns. Yesterday I saw an episode of Bonanza called "The Bucket Dog". An Irish Setter that was saved from being bucketed as a puppy due to "poor looks" must win a trial if the new owner is to keep her. One setter had a show look and the bucket dog did have more of a working dog look. OK, a lot of dramatic contrivance but an entertaining show nevertheless. The dogs quartered and pointed (fairly well I might add) but some points looked fake---the dogs "pointed" with their mouths open and smiling. I suspect more than two dogs were used as actors and some points were really a "stand-stay".
Again, entertaining. Any comments? Have you seen this episode? Have you shot over an Irish Setter?
Funny! Poor bucket pups! I'll have to look up that epidsode- wonder if it's on Amazon.
As a Golden person, I've always been attracted to the sturdy field version of the Irish Setter - I think they were used to make up the Golden. Never hunted with one, but would love to see what they're like.
When I was a young person the folks from Chicago used to come to our place in SD to hunt with their IS's. It was a very popular breed in the 30"s. After the hunt they would spend a considerable time plucking sandbur barbs from those poor dog's paws.
We owned a boarding kennel in the 70's & 80's with a customer who had two IS's of the old standard. Handsome dogs with broad heads & very athletic, they raised the activity volume in the kennel , sort of oversized JRT's with their activity. I enjoyed them as I like an active well conformed dog of any breed.
You might be able to see it on Youtube. Episode was dated 1972. The setters don't look as clumsy as what I am used to seeing. I think (not sure) that the red setter movement might have started at that time.
I have only hunted over the Continental Breeds myself.
Jamie acquires an Irish Setter, unaware that its rightful owner considers it an inferior example of the breed and wants it destroyed.
Guest Stars: Tim Riley...Don Knight,...Horace Kingston...William Sylvester,...Clem...Bing Russell,...Hop Sing...Victor Sen Yung,...Minister...Ivan Bonar,...Mr. Turner...Don Harris,...George Spencer...Carl Pitti,...Judge Wilcox...John Zaremba,...Bill Clark...(uncredited; extra as big man in church).
Trivia: William Sylvester, Don Knight, and Ivan Bonar make their last appearances on the series.
Trivia: The opening credits used reprinted film stock and in this episode, one can see the 1965 ride-up at Nevada Beach for a few seconds and the 1972 ride-up and credits at Brown's Meadow dissolves in frame.
In the first half of the episode, Joe comes home around midnight wearing his dating outfit he wore when he was courting Alice in "Forever." The white dress shirt and black pants. So, it would appear he had a special lady to cater his affections to after the loss of Alice in the final season.
Trivia: In one of the final scenes in this episode, Michael is wearing blue jeans when Mitch Vogel and the Irish Setter exit the Ponderosa living room.
Trivia: Bing Russell makes his last appearance as Deputy Sheriff Clem Foster in the series' history.
Location Scenes Filmed at: Golden Oak Ranch, Southern California.
I was curious as to who the dog actors were. I really don't think any of the Irish Setters I have seen (I don't see many, only 1 or 2 in the field) could look half as good as April, the bucket dog.
We called them farms as more than half of the land was plowed & in crops, farmed with horses. The smell of a horse on clean bedding (in our case straw) is a smell that rivals dog smell for it's workerlike fragrance - Chessies excluded .
I asked the owner how they acted at home & he said they were not very active - guns, birds & dogs to BS with apparently were their turnon.
My first dog EVER that was MINE was an Irish Setter. I was 8 years old and to me Red was the BEST DOG ever. She taught me how to quail hunt on our family farm. Me and Red and a 410 Stevens bolt action walked many miles. I have always been short and if I could not find Red on point she would back off point and come find me and lead me to HER birds. I learned what her LOOK was when I missed a bird. Thank God for her patience with me. It was our second year before I hit a bird....... One of my proudest memories seeing that big red dawg with a bird in her mouth coming to me. I had her until I was a Senior in HS and she was poisoned by neighbor by leaving out a pan of antifreeze. I still feel the pain of losing her and that was 53 years ago.
I did as well and I can remember hanging on every word. Probably the only books that I read multiple times while growing up. If I remember correctly.incorrectly, I think they were in a series of dog books with different types of dogs?
That bucket puppy episode made me smile. About 18 mos. ago I posted some pictures here of my "bucket puppy" mainly because I really liked him, despite his disqualifying white that might've earned him the bucket if he'd been born 50 years earlier. He was my favorite from his litter of 10; everyone liked him a lot but of course when it came time to sell him, no one really wanted poor white-footed Jackson even though none of the pups went to show homes. He ended up in what seemed like a good pet home, but I ended up getting him back at 10 mos. because he'd started standing up for himself when two very spoiled, yappy Yorkies were allowed to write checks they could no longer cash with him.
He's now happily living with his own, forever family nearby, he earned his JH this fall and has been on his first duck and pheasant hunts, too. We have no idea where all that white, especially the white foot, came from. Both parents had small white markings as did some of the pups, but neither they, nor any of the littermates, had so much as a single white hair on any toe!
Meet my bucket puppy Jackson (you know we had to name him that since he's missing a glove!) Isn't he cute?
I'll see if I can get some better pics, but here's "Gyp" aka "Gypsum" a rescue dog that we raised out of a litter of 11. Gyp's momma sure looked like a pit.
I've said many times that Gyp looks kinda like a Chessie. He's a good swimmer too!
Here's a shot of Gyp as a baby with his momma. (she never did tell us who the daddy was, or what kind of dog he was. She was darted and noosepoled in the tough section of Decatur and on day 3 of her capture, she delivered 11 pups at he shelter.)
Here's a shot of Gyp in the front row next to the black lab, "Bus".
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