Their 1st Hunt!t

Their first days hunted on LIVE BIRDS! Total birds taken: 20 quail, 9 partridge and 6 Cock Pheasants. 

Welcome to Mountain View Kennel 

We specialize in hunting and raising the most natural foot hunting pleasure hunting Setters found in the world and are the only kennel solely dedicated in raising and preserving the purest "Dashing Bondhu" Llewellin Setter bloodlines remaining in the world!

As you can see from the photo above, they are born natural bird dogs. These young dogs at only 14-15 months of age had no help from other dogs and no training. Pictured are the results after their first time being exposed to live birds in the wild. All dogs naturally Pointed solid , Retrieved to hand, and even Honored (backed) each other faithfully. They were worked and shot over a lone and then together and did an amazing job for any dog, never mind for one's on their first hunt. Absolutely, NO force training or electric training collars were ever used in their training or in any of our dogs training here at Mountain View Kennel.

They continue season after season to amaze us and everyone who has hunted with them. Please see our many hunting photos linked below. 

A brief history of the Dashing Bondhu bloodlines are as follows: The Dashing Bondhu bloodlines were personally developed by Mr. Richard Purcell Llewellin, Esq. (1840-1925) who spent over 50 years in their personal development and perfection of his own unique personal strain he personally named "Dashing Bondhu". All of the other Llewellin Setter strains were not developed by Mr. Llewellin himself.

The main difference from the Dashing Bondhu line from the many American lines, is that the American lines came from Llewellin's first early attempts at breeding, that were sent to America prior to 1900's and then developed by American breeders and Field trailer's. Selection was very different even among American breeders and soon many different recognized bloodlines were developed here in North America. Each kennel bred for different standards and traits such as size, color, markings, temperament, ability, health, hunting range, etc. resulting in each line becoming very different from one another. Even dogs originating from the same strain would be slightly different from one kennel to another.

The Dashing Bondhu line was Llewellin's personal bloodline that he personally developed and perfected in England for over 50 years. On Mr. Llewellin's passing in 1925, he left his respected friend William Humphrey also in England all of his personal Dashing Bondhu dogs to continue their breeding to Mr. Llewellin's high standards. Which Mr. Humphrey did for another 38 years, producing 41 foot hunting Field Champions in the process. Mr. Humphrey also worked closely with Father Brannon (Irish Priest) who owned Scinn Amach Kennel in Ireland, who also bred them in Ireland for 30 plus years. Many feel that Humphrey and Brannon even refined or prefected the Dashing Bondhu's even further. They selected only the most "natural born bird dogs" without the use of electronic collars, plented birds, or any force training generation after generation.

Our Dashing Bondhu Llewellin Setters today are direct decedents of 1960's direct imports from Humphrey's kennel and 1988 direct imports from Fr. Brannon's kennel, two outstanding gentlemen that Mr. Llewellin entrusted his personal bloodlines to and because of breeding the generations 8-10 years apart, many of our Llewellin Setter's we own today are still only 3- 5 generations from the original English and Irish imports from these great gentlemen, without any other strains being added what so ever.

For a complete history of the Dashing Bondhu bloodlines, please go to our Dashing Bondhu History  webpage.

These are also the same pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines that produced famous "Hank" aka Henry Princeof Pause, from Outdoor Life Network's Number "1" Sporting show for a number of years, OLN's TV series, "Hunting with Hank",

and also Hank's famous son "Dash" aka Hank's Dashing Bondhu, who has stared in OLN's following TV Series "Upland Days with Dash and Dez". 

 
 
 
 
 
 

"Hank" aka Henry Princeof Pause was also entered in the Bird Dog Foundation's Hall of Fame. These two great dogs are not only all out of the SAME 100% exact combination of pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines that we own and specialize in, but "Hank" aka Henry Princeof Pause can even be found as the grand sire and great grand sire in most of our dog's pedigrees and in pups we offer and "Dash" aka Hank's Dashing Bondhu, is the sire of our stud "Hank's Champ Bondhu". In fact, Mountain View Kennel is home to more "Certified Gun Dogs" of OLN's Hank's and OLN's Dash's bloodlines found anywhere else in the world.

Also, congratulations to Henry Princeof Pause aka "Hank" and Hank's Dashing Bondhu aka "Dash" for receiving their IPDBA Gun Dog Certifications!

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Please be aware that there are several different recognized bloodlines of Llewellin Setter's being bred and advertised today as Llewellin Setters. Because they are so different, these bloodlines  are known by many different names like Blizzard, Roycelle, Gladstone, Bomber, Tony'O, Advie, are just some examples of Llewellin Setter lines that are not found at all in our pure Dashing Bondhu Llewellin Setter pedigrees.  If any of these names are found in a pedigree, you will know they were not Llewellin's personal strain of "Dashing Bondhu" bloodlines that we specialize in at Mountain View Kennel.

It is not our intention to knock other strains or breeder's of other Llewellin Setters. We just feel that not all Llewellin Setter's were developed by Mr. Llewellin himself for over 50 years and are not the same and it has been our first hand experience that each strain can be very different from one another. Also, that crossing of those strains can have very mixed results, especially in future generations. The point is, if you want to own dogs that are as much like a certain strain that produced genetically sound, foot hunting dogs like OLN's Hank and Dash for example, or that were bred personally by Mr. Llewellin's high ideals, then it is best to stick with the same pure strain that produced them.

By the way, if in your search, you can find any Llewellin Setter's here or abroad, other than ours or our good friend Al King's as pure Dashing Bondhu as ours, please let us know. We are always in search for other pure Dashing Bondhu Llewellin Setters from around the world.

We feel they are the best  pleasure hunting BIRD DOGS ever developed in the world and because of our strict selection, our dogs are producing the BEST pups available in the world and is why we provide a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on ever single pup we offer!

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