Base colour
Rich chestnut with no trace of black
- white on chest, throat, and toes
- Disqualifying: or small star on forehead or narrow streak or blaze on nose or face not to disqualify
About the Irish Red Setter
Origin: IrelandIrish Red Setter
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pointing Dogs
- Origin
- Ireland
- Also called
- Setter Irlandes Rojo
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Gun dog and family dog
- Behaviour and temperament
“Keen, affectionate and loyal. intelligent, energetic,”
Quoted from FCI standard n°120. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Characteristics
- Size
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- Exercise needs
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- Easy to train
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- Amount of shedding
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- Grooming needs
- 4 of 5
- Good with children
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- Cost to keep
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- Tolerates being alone
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- Intelligence
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- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the Irish Red Setter
What you get with the Irish Red Setter
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Gun dog and family dog”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Keen, affectionate and loyal. intelligent, energetic,”
What you are taking on
- High grooming needs — the standard’s own description is “Tail having fringe of moderately long hair, decreasing in length as it approaches the…”
Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.
Characteristics
FCI standard · Irish Red Setter
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged disqualifying.
Coat
On head, front of legs, and tips of ears, short and fine
on other parts of body and legs moderate length, flat and as free as possible from curl or wave.
Feather on upper portion of ears long and silky
on back of fore and hind legs long and fine
fair amount of hair on belly, forming fringe which may extend onto chest and throat.
Feet well feathered between toes.
Tail having fringe of moderately long hair, decreasing in length as it approaches the point.
All feathering straight and flat
Colour
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.
Shortened from FCI standard n°120 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Irish Red Setter in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Irish Red Setter
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Irish Red Setter on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.
Gallery
No photographs yet
This is where Irish Red Setter owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.
A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.
Puppies
No puppies listed right now
No Irish Red Setter breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.