Lewellyn

Lewellyn

Infobox Animal


caption= Llewellyn Setter
species= Canine
breed= Llewellyn Setter, Lewellyn Setter (Lew-Ellen)
gender= Female

Description

Appearance

Related to the English Setter, the Llewellyn's silky coat is mostly white with black and usually brown specks. Its coat is of a medium length and as it gets older is fur begins to curl near the shoulder and neck. Smaller than most breeds of Setter, the Llewellyn is generally 21-25 inches (56-60cm) tall and 33-37 inches (86-70) long.

Temperament

This breed of dog is affectionate and loves to play. They enjoy human company and get along well with children and adults if trained not to jump. Not naturally aggressive, Llewellyn Setters are moderately intelligent. Energetic, this breed will require exercise daily. They are territorial towards other dogs.

Health

Llewellyn Setters can be healthy dogs when looked after.

*Hip dysplasia
*Progressive retinal atrophy
*Epilepsy
*Entropion
*Hypothyroidism
*Hyperosteodystrophy
*Bloat
*Osteosarcoma
*Von Willebrand's disease
*Patent ductus ateriosus

History

The name Llewellyn Setter is given to a certain breed of Setters bred by R.L. Purcell Llewellyn to be perfect for foot hunting and early field trials. The breed was very successfully advertised even though losing to Joe, Jr. in the great match race between the Cambell (George M. Cambell of Springhill, Tennessee) native English Setter strain and the blue blooded Llewellyn Setter Gladstone of an American strain of Llewellyn Setter.

Because of the major change in American field trials to big, wide running field trials their field trail performance begin to decline against the bigger running pointers after 1914 when pointer Commanche Frank won the National Bird Dog Championship. But the obsession with the Llewellyn breed as champion foot hunting bird dogs and excellent family companions occurs at the same time pointers began to dominate wide ranging field trials.

The Llewellyn Setter breed is making a huge come back with the lose of large area's to hunt, leaving hunter's the need for a closer ranging hunting dog and family companion.

There are basically two lines of Llewellyn Setters recognized today. They are the "American Llewellyns" developed from lines of early English imports from the late 1800s and early 1900s that were mainly developed by American field trial breeder's. The second is the "Dashing Bondhu" line developed personally by R.L. Purcell Llewellyn himself for 50 years and with William Humphrey also in England for 38 more years and Fr. Brannon in Ireland for 30 plus years. These were not imported to America until the 1960s and 80s. The breeding of these pure Dashing Bondhu's in America resulted in producing the most famous of all Llewellyn Setter's known today. The famous "Henry Princeof Paws", aka "Hank" fame of the Outdoor Life Network 'OLN' Channel series known as "Hunting with Hank".

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