The Gemstones in a rush for breakfast
Bring a whole new meaning to bottle-necked!!
Pixel pups litter theme: The Gemstones
Later this week I will get individual photos up with each of their names.
Girls:
Diamond, Peridot, and Opal
Boys:
Garnet, Emerald, Alexandrite, Topaz, and Zircon
Pixel pups at 4 days old
Pixel x Duncan litter update
Hi Everyone!!
So it’s been a busy week here for Paint River Llewellins!! I will try this weekend to get some individual photos of the puppies up on the site. As many of you know one of the delights of Llewellins is that they change color so much you often don’t know what you get until it’s time to pick them up!! … and sometimes your lightly speckled belton turns nearly a solid color as one of my recent puppy owners found out!! So I don’t like to guarantee any coloring on the beltons. And we have four beltons in this litter!! Over the next month it will be clear as to what colors they will be but this breeding last year and Duncan’s other breeding showed him to be very dominate in the breeding. All tri-beltons ended up being heavily ticked just like their papa!! Which I personally love.
At present the best I can tell we have a tri-color female with several patch markings, a black and white female with a face patch, a belton female, 3 belton males!!, a black and white male with nearly a full hood and a body patch, and a tri-color male with a small eye patch. All these pups are likely to get MUCH dark in the weeks ahead and that’s part of the fun of watching this breed grow!! So please be patient because before long you’ll have so many photos in your inbox you’ll have to buy more memory for your computer 🙂
Oh!! And hopefully we will have a litter theme this weekend too!!
Preggers Pixel on DAY 55
Our precious Pixel is getting very uncomfortable as her due date nears….. 63 days is average but last year we had pups on DAY 58…. so as her pups to into position we will be waiting patiently….. well maybe not patiently 🙂
PIXEL’S ULTRASOUND SHOWS 5-6 PUPS **PUPPIES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE**
Paint River’s Pixel Levi was bred to Paint River’s Duncan Levi on 10/2/14. Ultrasound on 11/6/14 showed 5-6 puppies!! Due date is 12/4/14. Puppies going to their new homes the last week in January — first week in February. At this time this is the only litter planned until next winter so if you’ve are in the market for a Paint River pup this is your chance!!! We do the best we can to have pups born between November and February so your first hunting season with your Llewellin Setter can be a full throttle experience. Next winter we will have repeat breedings of both—Paint River’s Pixel Levi and Paint River’s Widget Levi to Paint River’s Duncan Levi. These breedings have proven to produce outstanding bird dogs. ALL parents are incredible grouse and woodcock dogs in excellent health.
Paint River Updates as of Nov. 5th
Hello All!!
Well it’s been a whirlwind!! 5 solid weeks in the UP hunting grouse and woodcock with my 7 llewellin setters. Best 5 weeks of my life!! I have so many photos to get up on the site to share with you but it will take me some time to do so given the number of photos I have and how much work (dogs to train) I have since I’ve been away from home. We will continue to squeeze in 2-3 hunts a week here in the Catskills of NY but we are bummed that our season in the UP has come to a close.
Here are a few photos of Pixel and Duncan. These are the parents to the upcoming litter due on December 4th. We have several paid reservations and several other inquiries. Please inquiry if you are interested. This is a repeat breeding and should produce fantastic family hunting dogs!!
Life with the Llews in the UP
Hello Everyone! I can’t believe we have been here a week already!! It’s rained everyday but one day since we’ve arrived but that hasn’t stopped us from getting out and hunting every day for at least several hours. Many of our hunts have been incredibly exciting!! I could sit here for hours and hours just writing about all the great play by play bird/dog action from the past week!!! But I don’t want to bore you to death especially given that I really don’t have access to upload photos of the dogs on point (haven’t taken any yet really due to the weather). The grouse are so crafty it’s ridiculous!! Certainly anyone that spends time with them will understand why they are dubbed The King of the decidous forest. Always fleeing before we arrived at them, running safe distances before flight, hiding in their bunker until you immediately pass, roosting in a nearby tree and take off careening in the other direction, sneaking to the other side of the hemlock then taking off…. and my favorite though I’m hoping they are not this smart…. getting back near the house flushing a grouse and it flying directly over my 500 gallon propane tank. So much for throwing Kyle a bone!! But in all seriousness— it’s been a blast!! My llews are in heaven and watching them work the grouse and woodcock is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Warms my heart, brings tears to my eyes and gets my adrenal going all at the same time. All the dogs improve with each hunt this early in the season and the transformation is always amazing to watch. My old girl Rogue is in her 11th hunt season (2nd in the UP) she a superstar even at her respected age. I only hunt her every third day or so and only have 1-2 hours. She runs as hard as my two year olds. For any of you Toby Keith (country singer) fans, there’s a song that has the main line goes—”I ain’t as good as I once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was….” well that’s Rogue’s theme song these days and we spread her hunts out for that reason. Love my old girl!! Then there’s the trio!!— My three kids that all grew up together and are around two years old in their second hunt season. Last year I was super impressed with these young kids on grouse and woodcock. This year they are proving to be the dogs that I’ll be proud to call my foundation stock. Once the leaves are off the trees here hopefully we will get more shots at these feathered crouch rockets!!! Duncan’s drive, intensity yet cautiousness—Widget’s wicked crazy smart intelligence to figure everything out before the grouse does pointing nearly every grouse before it gets a jump—and my Pixel—my primal girl as I call her… she’s no nonsense, find those darn birds one by one and move onto the next. Then there’s Omiimii… my little devil child that I spoil rotten!!! WOW!! She doesn’t like when dad goes hunting without her!!! I have been taking her every single day on at least one hunt since this is her first season. I call her my ninja! She slices thru the woods in a sneaky way to frequently check the scent in the air from a stand still then selects her next route. She’s incredible on woodcock and has over a dozen grouse points in her first week of the hunting season. I love this 30 pound little bundle of crazy happy energy. lastly there are the two newest additions that I’ll take out in the woods in another week or two— Jolene and Eli. They are having a great time racing around the house and the yard and playing with everyone between my hunts. They are 4 mouths and one week old as of now. I usually don’t start bird work until around 6-7 months old with the llews but certainly since we are in the UP in October I gotta take them out a bit. So just giving them every little chance I can to get a little bigger and wiser. But their bird fun is soon to start too!! Ok well it’s 8am here and it’s time to suit up and get out and find some birds with the kids!! Have a happy and safe day out in the woods wherever you are!!
Paint River Llewellin breeding update
I know we have many of you that are very excited to hear when Pixel is coming into heat…. we hope that this will be really soon!! She usually goes in every 6 months and six months ago today she was in heat so… any time now we hope. While we are excited to have our next litter of pups I am also happy that she’s a little late since last hunting season she was very preggers while we were out in the UP. She hunted every day but we kept all her hunts to around or under an hour. One of my favorite pointing photos of all time is the picture of Pixel pointing a grouse in the UP 50 days pregnant with with giant belly and split tail. My respect for these dogs and their instinct work ethic is second to none. So Pix will enjoy long hunts for our full 5 week hunting adventure this year and get to do some nice hunting in NY for a week or two hopefully before nestling in for the arrival of her next pups. I will post when we have a breeding date but as of now looks like her and Duncan are going to have their romantic date under the stars in the UP.
Omiimii makes her point
If you are truly a bird dog lover then you know after one week of doing 10-30 minutes bird workouts in the training fields after work with your 7.5 month old pup and you are getting the following response — then you know I’m going to sleep every night with a smile on my face. After a week in the grouse woods this dog is going to be bringing me to tears with such joy.
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Omiimii riding high after her first week of bird work
Omiimii appears to have all the tools for the job, this young girl is really going to have a blast this October!! I can’t wait!!
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Paint River updates will be much more frequent
To all Paint River enthusiasts, as you well know, the second half of the year is usually the busier time for us bird dog lovers….. it’s time for training and conditioning of our beloved canine athletes for the start of our Sept/Oct. bird hunting seasons. So stay tuned for some great photos of all the Paint River Llews in the weeks and months ahead. Also please pass the word around to all your bird dog loving hunting buddies that our next breeding will most likely be happening in September with Pixel and Duncan. So if nature permits that means pups born late November… time flies so all serious family hunting dog lovers speak up!! There are three paid reservations on this litter already. We may not breed Widget this next heat cycle unless Pixel’s breeding does not take. So stay tuned for all the fun!!!
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.
Paint River’s Gitche finally out on some birds
Well my dad and me finally got coordinated with our schedule today and was able to do a little obedience training with his dogs and get them out on birds. It was a very productive day in the yard and in the training fields. Here is Gitche pointing a pigeon tucked away in brush in a remote launcher. Gotta love these dogs instincts!!!
We have been doing a lot of this in the evening lately…..
…… I’m not trying to rub it in to all my new Paint River puppy owners…. but this is one of the benefits of not having puppies in the house at the moment. Widget and I are catching up on some early evening rest from the past several months.
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.
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.
