llewellin setter – Page 6 – PAINT RIVER SETTERS

Oh boy, oh boy….and oh boy and oh boy and oh boy….yes 5 boys!!

Well last night was certainly an interesting one…. it was 8pm and I was just getting into bed and ready to watch some of my favorite tv shows with the dogs…. Pixel was outside and scratching at the door to come in…. so I let her in and she went to the whelping box for 5 minutes… dug around and then came into the bedroom and jumped on my stomach all hunched over with a puppy making his way into the world!!! I was totally unprepared figuring Day 58 with a young first time mother. I don’t know how but I shot out of bed and held her keep that exact position bring her into the whelping room adjacent to the bedroom. I set her down in there and she proceeded to have the first pup!! It’s a boy!! After the first pup was out Pixel’s instinctive switch got turned on and she was an old pro… every 30 minutes she had a puppy until she was done. And yes…. boy after boy after boy…. five times over!!!! All boys!!! Here are a few photos for your viewing. Here are Pixel’s 5 sons. The litter theme is cameras.

What it’s all about…. October in the U.P.

I always say….”there are dog people—and then there are bad people.” I can absolutely understand not owning a llewellin setter if you don’t hunt and or don’t have lots of space for the dog to run and hunt on it’s own around your home (property) but for those of us who view our dogs as an extension of ourselves…. well— then, you have found a great place to hang out online and read about amazing dogs with amazing abilities that are at the center of a dog person’s world.

Three things that warm my heart are: a llewellin setter giving me a hug, a llewellin setter snuggled against my body while I’m in bed watching a movie and a llewellin setter fiercely on a stunning point rock solid and as sure as the day is long. What do these things all have in common— a llewellin setter.

My first hunting season in the U.P. with my young llews could not have been more fruitful for both the dogs and myself. Nearly every time I came out of the woods from a hunt for a couple hours with one of my dogs or running a brace with Scott Lazur of Laurel Mtn. Lllewellin Setters with one of his dogs I pretty much always came out of the woods glassy eyed because it’s just so beautiful to watch these dogs do what they were born to do and do it with such style, with such grace and with such tenacity. I wear my heart on my sleeve but these dogs in incredible wilderness were just the song this country boy has been yearning for his whole life. There was no time, no place…. nothing…. ever…. that made me feel more at peace, more happy nor more excited than these few weeks of watching my kids do what they were born with. Here are some more photos that you can see for your own viewing pleasure.