Laurel Mt. Llewellin Setters
Just one Llewellin Setter was all it took for our family to fall in love with this breed of bird dogs. The Llewellin Setter has "indomitable, enduring, hard-working properties" (to quote Edward Laverack), wonderful character and style, a great passion for bird finding and they are loyal companions. Our Llewellin Setters have literally filled our home with fun and companionship and our freezer full of grouse, woodcock, quail, chuckar, and pheasant.
Proven hunters, our Llewellin Setters are also our companions and a huge part of our family. They are truly, in our opinion, the best gun dog breed there is. We have hunted over many breeds and are absolutely convinced Llewellin Setters are the best there are. We have seen no other breed with such style and grace, natural, inherited abilities, and such lovely personality. If you are serious about upland bird hunting, you need to get serious about the dog that accompanies you. The Llewellin Setter works tirelessly to find birds. It is what they have been bred for centuries to do.
We do not consider ourselves breeders, per say. We just happen to really like what we have seen in our personal Llewellin Setters and breed them for the desirable characteristics each posses, producing our own personal line of amazing gun dogs. We can not keep them all, so we will occasionally have some world class Llewellin Setters available. We do not have large kennels (in fact many of our llewellins stay in the house), but our dogs are well cared for, kept clean, exercised, socialized, hunted extensively, and trained.
We have put much effort into the research of the Llewellin Setter, their training, their care and we hunt our personal Llewellins as much as we possibly can. Our "vacations" are spent hunting our Llewellins. We work like fools the rest of the year so we can devote every minute possible to hunting from October to April (October-February our dogs are hunted extensively on wild birds only, February thru April we then hunt our dogs on Pennsylvania preserves).
Our goal in breeding our Llewellin Setters is first and foremost to preserve the natural hunting and pointing instinct, intelligence, style, stamina, and temperament in this truly amazing breed of dog. Llewellin Setter pups will be made available whose parents are proven excellent in the fields and forests of Pennsylvania, Maine, Michigan and wherever we get to travel to hunt grouse, woodcock, pheasant and more. We are committed to maintaining the Llewellin Setter breed and will occasionally make pups available to select, hunting-only homes. While the Llewellin Setter also makes a great companion on the sofa—even in your bed—they are bird dogs first and foremost and need to be hunted. If you do not have the time to devote to the care, attention and time afield, do not acquire one! Ill-mannered dogs are simply the product of lazy owners.
It saddens us to see the natural hunting instinct has been breed out of so many of the hunting breeds and are now bred for just "show" or "companion" dogs. To obtain a dog from us, we will ask many questions about your intentions, why you want a llewellin setter, the amount of time you plan to devote to hunting, where the pup will live, and the like. You might think it intrusive, but we believe it is our responsibility to make sure these pups get to do what they were bred to do!