King Llewellin Setter Kennel

Breeder of 100% Llewellin Setters since 1965

The following is an overview of our breeding plan as we move into

The 2^nd decade of the 21^st Century  

PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT WE WILL CONTINUE BREEDING OUT BELOVED

100% LLEWELLIN SETTERS ON A SMALLER AND VERY REFINED SCALE   

WE WILL maintain a broad pool of 3 major lines of Llewellin Setters.  We intend to keep 1 male for each 3 or 4 females within each given line.  This will provide a wide base to insure that none are in-bred but WILL be fully LINE-BRED 100% PURE Llewellin Setters. 

There are 5 major lines of American Llewellins.  The Royacelle, TonyO and Blizzard were clearly defined during the mid 20^th century.  These lines are still intact due to the breeding of King Llewellin Kennel.  NO other breeder continued these lines intact.  From these 3 basic strains; the Gladstone & GladstonyO lines were developed and maintained by Alfred O. King, Sr. and King Llewellin beginning in the mid 60’s.  The Bomber line was developed by L. V. Doan during the same time period. 

The Royacelle line [which goes back to 100% to TonyO lines bred in the 50’s and 60’s] will be added back into the GladstonyO lines. 

Blizzard & Bomber will be combined as the Bomber line goes back to full Blizzard breeding. 

The American lines are our American heritage.  These descend from the first Llewellins imported into the US beginning in the late 1800’s on through the 20^th century.  It is amazing that they can still be found in the present world of Llewellin Setters. 

Our goal for the DASHING BONDHU line is to preserve it in purity. Since the very beginning of our breeding in the mid 60’s we have maintained

and continued to acquire a group of 100% DASHING BONDHU dogs.

At present we have 20 dogs in this group Of Bondhu Bloodlines! 

We have 5 MALES which are 100% DASHING BONDHU! 

We have 15 FEMALES which are 100% DASHING BONDHU! 

For over 40 years in our breeding program we have insured that

100% Dashing Bondhus remain for future generations of foot-hunting gundog enthusiast.

We intend to maintain 3 of the several lines of Bondhu breeding.

Few remain that have not been mixed; in at least one generation with American Lines.

Our goal is to present ONLY those that go back to 100% Dashing Bondhu families without outcross to the American lines; thus preserving each as separate for future generations.

Madam Marie Therese a Goes – Belgium; Bondhu/Wind’em lines from Wm. Humphries  

Dr. Stephenson imported several Dashing Bondhu from Chris Sorenson   

Dick Biggs also imported several Dashing Bondhu from Chris Sorenson   

Alfred King, though never importing directly from Chris, did acquire and preserve a good number of Dashing Bondhu from several Llewellin Setter breeders as well as individual owners who imported between the mid 60’s and into the 70’s. 

AND OF COURSE

Chris Sorenson - Last owner of the original R. L. Purcell Llewellin Kennel in England! 

THESE 100% DASHING BONDHU lines will be maintained by use of dogs that go back 100% to the breeding of William Humphries by he and others during the 50’s - 60’s & 70’s! 

We also intend to maintain separately the lines from Father Bannon &

Trevor Wostenholm - - - our IrishKing line of Dashing Bondhu. 

This will insure an even wider range of blood for future generations. 

“HANK” is included in this group of Dashing Bondhus. 

We have 4 100% IrishKing & Dashing Bondhu males!

1 son of HANK & 1 son of DASH! 

We have 18 100% IrishKing & Dashing Bondhu females! 

Derry Argue - Scotland; Advie & Machad, outstanding line of gun dogs, regrettably I can find none that have not been crossed with American lines  

Father Bannon – Ireland; Machad, Scinn Amach [Dashing Bondhu] & Cloncurragh [Wind’em] from Wm. Humphries  

Trevor Wostenholm - from South Africa; Bondhu & Wind’em lines from Wm. Humphries  

Dr. Everett E. Bickers of Indiana imported the majority of these lines into the US. 

These breeders also bred from the dominant William Humphries Dashing Bondhu & Wind’em line; descending directly back to R.L. Purcell Llewellin himself. 

Recently derogatory comments have arisen concerning our family.

This seems to stem from this cut back we initiated in our breeding program.

A portion of this cutback is due to our age and health.

PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT WE WILL CONTINUE BREEDING OUT BELOVED

100% LLEWELLIN SETTERS ON A SMALLER AND VERY REFINED SCALE   

We plan to continue breeding until our oldest son can take over the responsibility handed to us by a group of breeders of Llewellins prominent in the 1950’s.  These steps are being taken in order to move forward in this same direction. 

This responsibility, when realized, was not taken lightly.

We did not ‘plan’ to be the ones who maintained the lines; it was a gift that happened.

We continue to be the breeder of THE 100% Llewellin Setter! 

We at King Llewellin Setter Kennel have been the breeder of 100% Llewellin Setters

SINCE 1965 

We at King Llewellin Setter Kennel have been the breeder of 100% Llewellin Setters

FROM 100% Llewellin Setters SINCE 1965  

Our 100% LLEWELLIN SETTERS are registered with: 

IPDBA and are eligible to be registered with NSTRA

Please go to the following web pages to view the purpose and goal of each registry

IPDBA http://ipdba.8k.com/      NSTRA http://www.nstra.org/ 

IN TODAY’S LLEWELLIN SETTER PEDIGREES [As viewed on a number of Llewellin web sites];

   VERY FEW DO NOT CONTAIN OUR BREEDING IN THE PEDIGREES! 

Our web page

IS

www.llewellin.com

That was and still is the first choice when web pages were I-N-V-E-N-T-E-D ! 

There were only a few other Llewellin Setter Breeders out there at the time …

KING LLEWELLIN SETTER KENNEL got the first choice! 

Various pages purport that in order to be a Llewellin Setter the dog must be FDSB registered. 

OR

State that if a dog is not registered with FDSB it is not considered a Llewellin Setter. 

I leave it to you to figure that one out since the majority of existing Llewellin Setters on these same pages today descend from the dogs bred by Alfred O. King breeder & founder of

KING LLEWELLIN SETTER KENNEL

AGAIN

PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT WE WILL CONTINUE BREEDING OUT BELOVED

100% LLEWELLIN SETTERS ON A SMALLER AND VERY REFINED SCALE