Widget is in heat!

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Paint River’s Widget Levi has just come into heat and will be bred in two weeks to Paint River’s Duncan Levi for the third time. Super grouse dogs!!! We are currently accepting a couple more male reservations until we have pups on the ground to see what we have. This is always a highly anticipated breeding! We have had males from this breeding all over the country and especially in grouse country and the reviews are awesome! Check out our website for all details! Photo credit to Perry Masotti, grouse buddy, traveling wingshooterand sport dog photographer.

Pre-season is here at PRL!

We’ve started to get the Llews back out on birds this week and will continue to do so until we leave for our five week hunt trip to the UP in September. The kids are looking good after their first day back to work in many months! Click on photo to enlarge and use slideshow feature.

Here are our available pups currently!

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The two tri-colors are both males from The Earth Day Litter born 4/22/16 ready to go 6/17/16. Top left is Cedar and bottom right is Spruce. The two orange beltons are both females from The Waters Litter born 4/7/16 and ready to go 6/2/16. Top right is Puddle and bottom left is Brook. All specifics on the AVAILABLE PUPPIES page. Also visit us on Facebook at Paint River Llewellins! Daily photos and videos there!

Summer updates at Paint River

Hi Everyone!!

Well Pixel, Widget and Omiimii all came into heat during the month of April! If nature cooperates we will be breeding both Pixel and Widget for sure this fall and Omiimii is a possibility but that will be a last minute decision. We still have reservations available on both litters so step up and join the Paint River Family! Please stay tuned as we will be listing any news here. A reminder to follow us on Instragram at kylewarrendogs— there is endless llewellin fun on our Instagram page.

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Spring updates at Paint River

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I haven’t been giving too much updating lately… been very busy around here with full house renovations and many dogs to train! So this week both Pixel and Omiimii are in heat. This is Omiimii’s first heat at 16 months old. Omi will not be bred most likely until a year from this winter but we will see. Pixel has a couple reservations on her next litter, which providing her next heat is on time should be conceived sometime in October. Then there’s Widget… the long awaited Widget litter! Widget was not bred this winter due to skipping a heat. We are hoping she will be coming into heat between now and the summer with the plans of a winter litter for she as well. Widget also has a couple reservations.

We all look forward to having a little llew pup for cute moments like these.
We all look forward to having a little llew pup for cute moments like these.

Pre-season training for our Llews

We haven’t gotten in as much as pre-season bird training as we would have liked due to working so much to enable our time away in the UP for 5 weeks but all the Llews are seeing birds at least once a week and receiving conditioning 3-4 days a week. After our first week in the UP I think we’ll be look’n pretty darn good! Here are a few pre-season photos our Llewellins doing their bird dog thang in the Catskills of NY. Enjoy!

Widget pointing September Grouse in the Catskills
Widget pointing September Grouse in the Catskills
Up close and  point-ersonable
Up close and
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Woodcock point
Woodcock point
Woodcock point from the rear
Woodcock point from the rear
Pointing pigeon
Pointing pigeon
Pointing a grouse!!!
Pointing a grouse!!!
Pointing a woodcock
Pointing a woodcock

Our Llewellins love watching figure skating….if you need a good laugh— watch this!

It is still a toss up as to whether these llews really love figure skating or they think that the people on television look like birds flying around….. ah— probably think they are birds but it’s pretty darn funny!! Here are two videos of Widget and Pixel watching the U.S. Championships in Figure Skating last night. We had a good laugh!!

A January hunt for Paint River llews

These Llewellin Setters deserve far better bird country than they have been stuck with lately….. it’s a down year for grouse and considering we are not in grouse heaven to begin with it’s been long hard hours with not much paycheck for all that labor. Today I decided to bring some pigeons along for the ride in case we got skunked on grouse— we did so at least they got a little action on our remote launcher pigeons. Some beautiful points below of my trio.

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Empty nest at Paint River Llewellins…. The Gizmos all depart…. and Olympus

Well it was a very busy afternoon here with our little pups from Paint River Llewellins!!! Time to get the Kleenex out!! Weep—weep! All my little kids have flown the coop!! They all have such wonderful homes and I’m so thankful for connecting with all of these families. Here are photos of today’s departures.

The Payne-Rosen Family from NY with Olympus
The Payne-Rosen Family from NY with Olympus
Axle (left) with The Churchill Family from NH and Piston (right) with The Gagne Family from MA
Axle (left) with The Churchill Family from NH and Piston (right) with The Gagne Family from MA
Rotor going home with The Higgins Family from CT
Rotor going home with The Higgins Family from CT
Rotor going home with The Higgins Family from CT.....I think these two are going to get along just fine :)
Rotor going home with The Higgins Family from CT…..I think these two are going to get along just fine 🙂

Paint River’s Spark Plug has moved south!!

My adorable little Spark Plug has moved south to quail country….. this was a very hard pup to let go of….. reminds me so much of her mom— Widget. Super little girl!! We drove down to New York City to meet her lovely new mom, Lauren at LGA airport so Spark Plug could fly to Texas in the cabin with her mom. Here is a photos of Spark Plug— one with her new momma and another of her checking out the view from the truck on the way down to the big city.

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