Kathy Pellerito 

Kathy Pellerito
601 Burtis St
Bricktown, N.J.  08723
phone-732-920-9079
e mail- kpirwsa@msn.com
 

KATHY RESIDES IN BRICKTOWN NEW JERSEY WITH HER HUSBAND AND FOUR GORDON SETTERS AND ONE IRISH RED & WHITE SETTER.  AS A DOG CRAZY CHILD KATHY FINAL GOT HER WISH AFTER WRITING A PLEADING LETTER TO HER FATHER AND GOT HER FIRST DOG- A WHITE BEAGLE NAMED DUKE. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF MARRIAGE KATHY CONVINCED HER HUSBAND IT WAS TIME FOR A DOG.  THERE WAS AN AD IN THE PAPER FOR A GORDON SETTER AND AN IRISH SETTER.  SINCE KATHY’S FATHER WAS IRISH SHE CALLED ABOUT THE IRISH SETTER BUT THERE WAS NO ANSWER.  THE GORDON SETTER WHO WAS 6 WAS ADOPTED AND AS THEY SAY THE REST IS HISTORY.  AFTER ATTENDING OBEDIENCE CLASS GIVEN BY THE SAND AND SEA KENNEL CLUB, KATHY BECAME A MEMBER, ADOPTED A SECOND GORDON SETTER, SERVED AS MATCH SHOW CHAIRMAN AND BECAME THE RECORDING SECRETARY. BITTEN BY THE SHOW BUG KATHY OBTAINED HER FIRST SHOW GORDON SETTER.  MAGGIE AND KATHY COMPETED IN AGILITY AND EARNED A NOVICE AGILITY TITLE AND SHORTLY LATER HER AKC CHAMPIONSHIP. MAGGIE PRODUCED THE FIRST LITTER - 6 GIRLS AND TWO STAYED. AS AN ANTIQUE DEALER KATHY STARTING COLLECTING GORDON SETTER ITEMS. IN MANY OF THE POST CARDS AND PRINTS WAS THIS BEAUTIFUL RED & WHITE SETTER. KATHY STARTED A QUEST TO LEARN ABOUT THIS DOG AND FIVE YEARS LATER WAS ABLE TO FINALLY HAVE HER OWN IRISH RED & WHITE SETTER-ROSIE. AFTER JOINING THE IRWSA IN 2000 AND HELPING WITH THE 1ST INDEPENDENT NATIONAL IN THE FALL OF 2001, SHE WAS ASKED TO BE THE MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN. IN SEPTEMBER 2002 KATHY BECAME A BOARD MEMBER AND THE EAST COAST REGIONAL CO-ORDINATOR. WE HAVE RUN YEARLY REGIONAL SPECIALTY SHOWS. KATHY RAN THE SILENT AUCTION AT THE 2003 NATIONAL. SHE RAN THE FIRST PHOTO CONTEST WHICH PRODUCED THE 2004 IRWSA CALENDAR AND SHE IS WORKING ON THE 2005 CALENDAR. KATHY IS CURRENTLY SHOWING HER IRISH RED & WHITE SETTER AND THREE OF THE GORDON’S IN BREED AND ALSO RUNNING THEM IN HUNT TESTS. KATHY’S IRWS WAS ARBA’S FIRST FEMALE MASTER CHAMPION AND IS WELL ON HER WAS TO BEING A CKC CHAMPION. KATHY FEELS THAT HER LIFE HAS BEEN ENRICHED BY HER DOGS AND THE PEOPLE THAT SHE HAS MEET THROUGH THEM.

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