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Grand Bench Ch. Pippins CPC Elroy Paul
aka Redd Man
Whelped 5-21-95

Redd Man came to us in a most unusual manner. If it hadn't been for his tattooed ears, we would never have been able to identify him. We knew he was of good breeding because he was one heck of a gun dog.

Here's a 3-generation Pedigree:

            BRAMLETT'S BUDDY
         DUAL GR. CH. BRAMLETT'S BEAR
                BRAMLETT'S FRIEDA
GREEN RIVER CPC REDHAWK
                DUAL GR. CH. BRAMLETT'S BLACKHAWK
         BRAMLETT'S ANNIE
                ROUND POND BLUE JET SASSIE
                BUNCH'S REDMAN
        ADAMS RED RIVER BUDDY II
                FANNY XXXII
CAITLYN'S CPC RED CUPCAKE
                PINY RIVER RED BILL
        ADAMS RED RIVER PENNY
                WIMPYVI

In the summer of 1997, we received a phone call from a man Ralph had worked with at Amtrak here in indianapolis. Amtrak has about 250 acres adjoining its property (now belongs to Conrail) and it is grown up over the past 40 years. It has become a rabbit running heaven for many a local beagler. A big red beagle strolled into the Amtrak repair yards - no collar and looking for a some company. This man remembered Ralph kept beagles and asked if we wanted the dog. When I heard it was a red dog I said "NO!" Ralph said yes and the dog was brought to our house. I didn't want anything to do with a red beagle at that time but I couldn't help but notice what a handsome feller he was.

A trip to the vet's office revealed no microchip, an ad in the paper received no response, so "Redd Man" found a home in our kennel. We gunned him that winter - he is truly a solid gundog of med-fast speed with an uncanny dose of rabbit smarts. We knew he had experience on rabbit, but didn't handle worth a flip. Wouldn't come in for nothing! (we surmised that was why he was left at Amtrak running grounds)

We began field trialing in ARHA in Sept. of '99 and I continued to look for Redd's owner. Redd made Gr. Bench Champion very quickly and had many places in the field. One day while thumbing through an issue of The Rabbit Hunter, I came acoss a dog by the name of CPC Red Ryan. CPC...hey, that was the tattoo in Redd's ear along with some numbers! I found Abell's CPC Dark Reds Kennel in the back of the magazine and called right away. Thanks to the meticulous records that Paul Abell keeps, he was able to identify Redd, his last owner in Indiana and provided me with his phone number. I called Previous Owner and told him I had his dog and I offered to buy the hound. This was 18 months after Redd first came to us. He chuckled and said "You've had the dog this long, he's yours, I'll send you his papers". I'd grown very fond of Redd and it was a wonderful

Christmas present to me. Paul was able to fill me in on the years I'd missed. Redd's previous owner only ran him a couple of times so he couldn't tell me much. Redd was a gift from Paul Abell to his friend's small daughter who wanted a puppy much smaller than her father's bird dogs. Redd lived on a farm his first 3 years - never wore a collar, never kenneled, but allowed to hunt rabbits from daylight to dusk. Paul and Kevin gunned over Redd some and he was so contrary about having to come in, they tied 20 ft. of heavy weedeater line to him and would step on it as he went by. He was later sold to the man in Indiana that wanted a good male gundog. Redd has since gotten with the handling routine.

We still have Redd and continue to gun him every winter. Although he was started in field trials at a later time in his life, he had many places and only needed his first place to go Champion when we decided to retire him. Redd turned 9 years old April of 2004 and still looks as good as he did at 3.