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Three Llewellin Setter Walking Gun Dogs
Two FDSB registered and DNA certified Llewellin Setter, Walking Gun Dogs, whelped on February 17th 2009, will be up for bid.
Willy and Lilly are an excellent cross between; a sire with direct lineage to the ancestors of Purcell Llewellin’s personal kennel, which is now in Belgium, and a hard-hunting dam from the Bondhu line. The dam placed 3rd in the 2003 Mid-South Llewellin Field Trial, her one and only start. These pups are guaranteed to make excellent gun dogs and companions.
HISTORY OF THE LLEWELLIN SETTER
Around 1875, Purcell Llewellin imported a number of very fine Setters to North America. Llewellin's Setters were a cross between some of Edward Laverack's English Setters and some Setters from North England. The result of these crosses was eminently successful, particularly at field trials, and swept everything before them. The Llewellin strain has enjoyed such extreme popularity in this country as hunting and field trial dogs that it has been recognized as a sub-breed of the English Setter by the Field Dog Stud Book in Chicago which registers these dogs as Llewellin Setters.
The slightly smaller Llewellin Setter, is the field-trial dog, and is usually distinguished from the Laverack type by the color--white, for the most part, with large black patches and, more often, white with large black patches and tan ticking on the head, muzzle and legs. Their heads are thicker through the skull; their muzzle, in comparison to their length of skull, is shorter than similar measurements for the Laverack type. The nose is inclined toward snippiness. They excel in speed and have a keen nose.
− The foregoing were excerpts from The New Complete English Setter by Davis Tuck and from Hunting Dogs by Philip Rice and John Dahl.
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