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Our Llewellin Setter Dams!
The Purest Llewellin's Dashing Bondhu Bloodlines
Available in the World!

All  Dams and Studs are fully trained and
"Gun Dog Certified"


All our dams and studs are direct descendants from Sir Richard Purcell Llewellin's personal bloodlines named by him as his "Dashing Bondhu" bloodline. We are only working with 100% pure "Dashing Bondhu" bloodlines imported directly from Sir William Humphrey of England plus Machad Ambassador from Fr. James Brannon/Humphrey bloodlines from Ireland, and  Dashing Remus Bondhu, a pure "Dashing Bondhu" bred male, imported later from Marie Therese a Goes of Belgium. All these bloodlines originated from Sir Richard Purcell Llewellin's personal kennel many years earlier, and Fr. James Brannon and Marie Therese a Goes continued to work very closely together with Sir Willaim Humphrey, who inherited Sir Llewellin's personal Dashing Bondhu Llewellin Setters.

In fact, Sir Humphrey and Fr. Brannon vacationed at each other's homes many summers, and Marie Therese vacationed with the Humphrey family many times and enjoyed hunting their falcons together over these Setters. Our kennel is combining only the purest surviving "Dashing Bondhu" bloodlines available in the world without the addition of any American Llewellin bloodlines in their pedigrees! 

We know that they are 100% genetically sound and, other than their color and markings, they are virtually like clones in temperament and natural outstanding ability, assuring our pups will satisfy our customers over 99% of the time.

All our adult Llewellin Setters are listed on our website so our customers will know the size of our kennel. We have the largest, pure gene pool remaining in the world and, because of this, we must maintain enough dogs that are required to preserve and continue a healthy genetic breeding program of Sir Richard Llewellin's personal, pure "Dashing Bondhu" Setters. No other kennel or breeder in the world has the genetic diversity of working with 100% Humphrey and all other remaining pure "Dashing Bondhu" bloodlines. We also show five- generation pedigrees of every dog, so you know they are 100% pure.

You don't have to be a knowledgeable breeder to recognize the many years of dedication and selective breeding that we have devoted to selecting only the very best and purest "Dashing Bondhu" Llewellin Setter bloodlines from the very best breeders left in the Setter world. We will continue to preserve the very best bird dogs and loving companions ever developed in the world for generations to enjoy.

We have not been able to distinguish the reproducing qualities between our Setters. Believe it or not, all studs and dams have produced equally well no matter how they were bred to one another. This is a testament to the quality of Sir Llewellin, Sir Humphrey, Fr. Brannon, Al & Drenda King, and our breeding program since 1996.

All our studs and dams are Gun Dog Certified "GDC" before they are used for breeding. They must  prove to an IPDBA inspector that they will hunt (search), hold point, be shot over, retrieve shot birds to hand, and will back (honor) another dog pointing to the inspector's satisfaction to receive a "GDC" official title, proving each dog is not just a brood dog. 

On a personal note, no dogs are added to our program if any force training or electric collars are/were needed in their training. This assures that our pups are out of only the most "natural" at pointing, retrieving, and backing (honoring) other bird dogs generation after generation. This does not mean they cannot be pro trained, but we have found that we get the best results when only natural simulation training methods are used with pups starting at 10-15 months old. Please read how easily all our Setters are trained on How to Train our Dashing Bondhu Setters webpage.


Breeding Terminology
The following is done to preserve an outstanding dog and increase number of pups like that dog.

Double Bred: has the same grandparent on both sides, can be an exceptional male or female.
3/4 Bred: has the same parent and grandparent, can be an exceptional male or female.
Quadruple Bred: has the same four great-grandparents, can be an exceptional male or female.


The Late
GDC Dashing Blaze Bondhu
In Loving Memory!
(1996-2007)

100% Humphrey's Dashing Bondhu!
She was of the purest Dashing Bondhu bloodline found anywhere in the world! Littermate to Dashing Chess Bondhu and Dashing Humphrey Bondhu. Her sire, Dashing Ringold Bondhu, was clearly the best producing pure Humphrey sire of his generation and is a major link of all Llewellin Setters who carry the Dashing Bondhu bloodlines today, including his grandsons, Hank's Ringo Bondhu and Dashing Jerry Bondhu! Just look how many times he is found in all our dogs' pedigrees today!


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Blaze Bondhu
Proven natural bird dog

and proven reproducer of the same!


My personal
painting of 
GDC Dashing Blaze Bondhu
  by
Michael J. Bloodgood

Color: Orange Belton

(lightly ticked)

Above is my personal "painting" of "Dashing Blaze Bondhu," a pure Dashing Bondhu Llewellin Setter I owned from a pup and trained. It is also used (faded) in our background as a dedication in her loving memory. That was her exact stance on point and is just what she looked like in her prime. We have been told by several dozen people that our painting of her looks just like their setter. Most don't mean anything when they say she looked just like their female Setter, but a few diehard FDSB people have decided to take it a step further and, whenever my name comes up, they attempt to discredit us personally by saying we are using a picture of someone else's dog on our website.  

The ironic thing is we lived near the kennel owners for over nine years. We knew their Setters very well and were very good friends with their brother Mark for nine years, who purchased a few of my dogs. In fact, he asked me to train bird dogs for his father and brother, but I refused because I had no interest in the bigger running-type English Setters.

I don't remember ever seeing the picture before but agree my painting of Blaze does look like the dog in the black and white picture at first glance, but anyone without an agenda can clearly see......

#1. It is clearly a color painting and not at all a black & white photo.
#2. It is a female in the painting and the black & white picture is clearly of a male. Or maybe they don't know how to tell the difference?
#3. Blaze was slimmer, longer bodied, and more refined like in the painting and like most females. If the dog was a male in the painting, then he is missing something very important to a stud dog :)
#4. They both are in a field of grass, but backgrounds are very different. Example: The horizon is higher and there are no woods or
visible hedgerow in the color painting, but the lower horizon and woods can be seen clearly in the black & white photo.
#5. We also have many eyewitnesses who personally knew Blaze and know what she looked like and every one of them recognized the painting as Blaze!

I was tempted to show the differences on my website and put them side by side or even do an overlay to prove them as the liars they are, but then I would have to take and use the photo, and they would accuse me of copyright infringement. 

Marie says I should take it as a compliment that my painting looks like a photo but the saddest part about it is that someone would try to discredit us over a painting of a loving, deceased dog that was simply put on our website in her memory. We never used her for profit, and we surely could have had a website without it, but I think it shows how petty and low these people will stoop to try to discredit someone they are simply jealous of and cannot find anything else to say about. I can say they have never owned one of our great Setters and never will, I can assure you that. The fact is, they have to make up things because they cannot find anything else to discredit us with in over 50 years of us breeding gun dogs. Our good Lord knows the truth, and I will leave it in His hands.

Now, about Blaze. She was our first pure 100% Humphrey Dashing Bondhu-bred Llewellin Setter we ever owned, and she was the most natural bird dog we had ever seen in over 35 years of owning, breeding, and even professionally training a vast number of different pointing breeds and strains of bird dogs. 

Blaze was an orange belton but appeared almost completely white with just a few light orange ticks. She started very young and was naturally steady on point and retrieving reliably at only four months old.  She was totally natural without any force training necessary and was so outstanding that she pointed and retrieved over 200 native Kentucky Bobwhite Quail and several Woodcock her first season on her own. 

Even as a pup, Blaze was so superior over our great line of German Short-haired Pointers we had bred for eight generations that we completely ended their long breeding program the following year. Even though we had a long waiting list for their pups, we could no long say they were the best bird dogs. Blaze became our main bird dog and aided in training our other Llewellin Setters, some older than she was at the time. 

Believe it or not, no one who hunted with her can remember Blaze ever breaking a point, losing a downed bird, missing a retrieve, dropping a bird on retrieve, or not backing other dogs on point. She continued year after year to amaze everyone who hunted with her with her extremely strong scenting ability, all-day stamina, and beautiful high style, always pointing confidently with an 11-12 o'clock tail and head held high. 

She was so beautiful to watch coursing and methodically working a field, always keeping us in her line of sight. In open ground, she would be swinging wide but in thick cover, hunting close as any dog, making her an expert at locating quail coveys and then equally well at working single birds one at a time, no matter how thick the cover was. I regret that she was never used for Ruffed Grouse but, take it from a 30+  year Grouse hunter, she would have been awesome on them and did awesome on hunting fall woodcock in our area.

She was extremely intelligent, naturally knowing how to back off of running birds and to swing around them to get ahead, cut them off, and pin them down between herself and the hunter.

Blaze was also the first bird dog of any breed to achieve "Gun Dog Certification" in 1996 and did it on native wild birds to lead the way in IPDBA for bird dogs. 

Unfortunately, we waited too long to try and get pure Dashing Bondhu pups out of her, but she did prove herself as an exceptional reproducer, even when outcrossed twice on a very good King's Bomber III-bred male that we had owned and hunted with her at the time. Even though all 21 of her pups from two litters completely satisfied their owners, none were kept by us for future breeding because they were not out of the pure Dashing Bondhu strain.

Fortunately, Blaze did have many outstanding littermates like Dashing Chess Bondhu and Dashing Humphrey Bondhu, and her sire, Dashing Ringold Bondhu, had produced hundreds of outstanding dogs making it possible for us to preserve and reproduce the same quality, pure Dashing Bondhu  bloodlines through several of their offspring. It is our opinion that Mr. Llewellin's and Mr. Humphrey's 100 years of combined breeding of their personal Dashing Bondhus are, by far, the most natural foot hunting gentlemen's bird dogs ever developed and, using Humphrey's quote, "perfected" and is the reason we are dedicated to only breeding the purest of these bloodlines found today. 

Blaze passed on to the happy hunting grounds in spring 2007, but will always have a special place in our hearts and with those who knew her at our home or in the field. She blessed us and all the many friends and family that hunted over her for 11 awesome years on native wild Kentucky and Georgia Bob-White Quail. Yes, we made trips to Georgia to hunt native Georgia quail with friends there, and she always did a phenomenal job at locating, pointing, and retrieving them day after day, month after month, and year after year. 

Blaze will always be missed, but we are so pleased to be able to see her continue to live on through her same quality pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines we have here at Mountain View Kennel today. Just one look at any of our dogs' pedigrees will show how much of her breeding is maintained in them. You can see in her pedigree below that she is closely related to all the dogs we own today and is of the purest 100% Humphrey Dashing Bondhu bloodlines left in the world. 

It should be noted that Blaze was out of one of the most awesome Llewellin Setter litters we have ever heard of in over 35 years of breeding gun dogs. All her littermates were outstanding naturals. Here are named just a few of her famous littermates: Field Winner Dashing Houdini Bondhu, Dashing Humphrey Bondhu, Dashing Chess Bondhu (was bred to OLN's Hank), and Dashing Chessy Bondhu (sold to Russia). Her pedigree of all Dashing Bondhus is a list of who's who of direct descendants from Llewellin's and Humphrey's personal kennels. 

As you will see, we have done an amazing job in preserving Blaze's bloodlines through Irish Chess Bondhu and Hank's Ringo Bondhu, a daughter and son of Dashing Chess Bondhu (Blaze's litter mate) who are in our dogs many times. 


 Sire: Dashing Ringold Bondhu
On point! (100% Pure Humphrey)
     

Dam: Dashing Whitett Bondhu

On point! (100% Pure Humphrey)
 


 


GDC Dashing Bondhu Janette

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


Rare Belgium Dashing Bondhu Bloodline!
100% Pure Dashing Bondhu Bloodlines
81% Humphrey, 12.75% Fr. Brannon's, & 6.25% Belgium (Humphrey)
Technically, 87.25% Humphrey12.75% Fr. Brannon



Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu HanksRingo



Dam:
GDC Dashing Bondhu Janie





"Double-bred GDC IrishKing Bondhu Lady"

GDC Dashing Bondhu Lassie

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!
White, Black, & Ticked

85% Humphrey & 15% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

GDC Dashing Bondhu Lassie

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ashly

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Lady







GDC Dashing Bondhu Toniette
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


Orange Belton



96
% Humphrey & 4% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu King

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Tonia






GDC Dashing Bondhu Jayne
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!



Blue Belton



Rare Belgium Dashing Bondhu bloodline!
82.5% Humphrey, 14.5% Fr. Brannon's, & 3% Belgium (Humphrey)
Technically, 85.5% Humphrey14.5% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ashly

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Janette




"Double Bred GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk"
GDC Dashing Bondhu Remington

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!

Tri-Chestnut Belton


100% Humphrey

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!


GDC Dashing Bondhu Remington

Sire: Dashing Bondhu Beau

Dam: Dashing Bondhu Isabelle
Very pleased with the addition of this amazing beautiful female to our program. Big thanks to Tim Warren for letting us own her. Both his parents came from our kennel and are awesome gun dogs. 100% Humphrey bred and a Natural Gun Dog with a wonderful personality and strong willingness to please. We are expecting awesome pups from her soon.





GDC Dashing Bondhu MissChess
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


Blue Belton


95% Humphrey & 5% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu CountOrtho II

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Miss






"Double Bred GDC Dashing Bondhu Miss"
GDC Dashing Bondhu PridesDream
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


White, Orange, & Ticked


82.5% Humphrey & 17.5% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank II

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Pride






"Double Bred GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk"
GDC Dashing Bondhu Silky

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


Tri-Color


100% Humphrey

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Count

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Silkette






GDC Dashing Bondhu Chessette
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


Tri-Color


92% Humphrey & 8% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Dash

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu DutChess

Chessette not only has the famous OLN's Hank and his sire Ashley many times in her breeding, but also has his famous son OLN's Dash of OLN's Upland Days with Dash and Dez, all Hall of Famers. She aslo a granddaughter of our GDC Irish Bondhu Chess, who was out of Dashing Chess Bondhu who was a litter-mate to our great GDC Dashing Blaze Bondhu.





 GDC Dashing Bondhu Advie 

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!



True Blue Belton
(heavy ticking)

82% Humphrey & 18% Fr. Brannon/Advie/Assrah

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: Hank's CT-BelgiumAce Bondhu

Dam: Machard Lady-Peni Bondhu

Very pleased with the addition of this amazing new female to our home. As her name indicates, she brings in a lot more pure Dashing Bondhu genetics from both Machad (Fr. Brannon) and Advie (Derry Argue) kennels. Just look at her awesome pedigree with many dogs not closely related to our dogs, but still 100% Dashing Bondhu. Big thanks to O'Neal and Drenda King for letting us own her. She has a wonderful bold personality with a strong willingness to please, can't wait to hunt her this fall.




  GDC Dashing Bondhu MissPride 

88.5% Humphrey & 11.5% Fr. Brannon


100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

GDC Dashing Bondhu MissPride
Orange Belton
(medium ticked)

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu HanksRingo

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Pride



 GDC Dashing Bondhu Satinette

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!



Tri-Chestnut
(full mask, heavy ticking)
100% Humphrey

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!


Dashing Bondhu Satinette

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Royal

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Satin







  Heavy "HOF GDC IrishKing Bondhu Ashly" Bred!
11 times in 5 generation pedigree!
(Sire of HOF GDC Henry PriceOf Pause, aka OLN's Hank)

GDC Dashing Bondhu MissLady

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!

Tri-Color


87.5% Humphrey & 12.5% Fr. Brannon

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu HanksRingo



Dam:
GDC Dashing Bondhu Lassie





 GDC Dashing Bondhu SinnAmach 

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


White, Black, & Ticked
(heavy ticking)

82% Humphrey & 18% Fr. Brannon/Advie/Assrah

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: Dashing Machad-Advie Bondhu

Dam: Machard Lady-Peni Bondhu

Very pleased with the addition of this amazing new female to our home. As her name indicates, she brings in a lot more pure Dashing Bondhu genetics from both Machad (Fr. Brannon) and Advie (Derry Argue) kennels. Just look at her awesome pedigree with many dogs not closely related to our dogs, but still 100% Dashing Bondhu. Big thanks to O'Neal King for letting us own her. She has a wonderful bold personality with a strong willingness to please and is 100% natural Gun Dog.



 GDC Dashing Bondhu Lucy 

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


White, Black, Ticked
(heavy ticking)

82% Humphrey & 18% Fr. Brannon/Assrah's

100% Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines,
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available in the world!

Sire: IrishKing Bondhu Machad 3

Dam: Dashing Abigale Bondhu

Very pleased with the addition of this amazing new female to our home. As her name indicates, she brings in a lot more pure Dashing Bondhu genetics from both Machad (Fr. Brannon) and Assrah's kennels. Just look at her awesome pedigree with many dogs not closely related to our dogs, but still 100% Dashing Bondhu. Big thanks to O'Neal for letting us own her. She has a wonderful bold personality with a strong willingness to please, and is 100% Natural Gun Dog.






 

GDC Dashing Bondhu Jane
 
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!
White, Chestnut, & Ticked
Rare Belgium Dashing Bondhu bloodline!
86% Humphrey, 8% Fr. Brannon's, & 6% Belgium (Humphrey)
Technically 92% Humphrey & 8% Fr. Brannon


100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!



Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu CountOrtho



Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Janie

 




GDC Dashing Bondhu Rosette

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!

White, Black, Ticked

95% Humphrey & 5% Fr. Brannon




Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank




Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Rosie






GDC Dashing Bondhu Pride

100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!


White, Orange, & Ticked

87% Humphrey & 13% Fr. Brannon

Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ashly
Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Miss


 







GDC Dashing Bondhu LadyBird
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!



Tri-Color

92.75% Humphrey & 7.25% Fr. Brannon


Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo II



 Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Lady
 







Rare 100% Humphrey bred!
GDC Dashing Bondhu Countess II
100% Natural & Gun Dog Certified!



White, Black, & Ticked






  Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Count II



Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Remington
 









Our Past Dashing Bondhu Females!

In Loving Memory or retired!





The late GDC Dashing Bondhu Lady

White, Black, & Ticked

85.5% Humphrey & 14.5% Fr. Brannon





Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank



Dam: GDC IrishKing Lady Bondhu
 






The Late GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk 
100% pure Humphrey Dashing Bondhu
81% imported from England and

19% imported from Belgium
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
available anywhere in the world!

Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!



GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk


Tri-Color
We are VERY pleased to have this wonderful, beautiful female added to our breeding and hunting program. She adds many completely new bloodlines to our kennel, like Tennessee Whiskey, the famous  Buckaroo Bondhu, Awbonnie's Nellie, Dashing Weyer's Ozark, Dashwood Lacy Bondhu, to name just a few and many more pure Humphrey's imported from both England and Belgium. This makes Silk, in reality, 100% Humphrey and not at all closely related to either of our pure Humphrey studs, GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo and GDC Dashing Bondhu CountOrtho. She will finally give us the ability to produce pure 100% Humphrey litters without any inbreeding.


Sire: Tennessee Whisky
(100% Humphrey from England and Belgium imports)

Dam: Dashing LadyBel Bondhu
(100% Humphrey, from England and Belgium imports)







 GDC Dashing Bondhu Silkette
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!

Tri-Color
Rare 100% Humphrey


Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo


Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk




The Late GDC Dashing Bondhu Cora
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!

Tri-color
Rare 100% Humphrey



Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo


Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk



The Late GDC Dashing Bondhu Nell
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!


 Tri-color
Rare 100% Humphrey



Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo



Dam: Dashing Bondhu Silk




The Late GDC Dashing Bondhu Miss

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!

Tri- Chestnut
90.25% Humphrey & 9.75% Fr. Brannon
Double-bred Hank's Ringo Bondhu




Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank


Dam: GDC Dashing Missy Bondhu




Retired GDC Dashing Bondhu Countess

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!

White, Black, & Ticked
100% Humphrey



Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu CountOrtho

 


Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Silk



In Toni's Loving Memory!
The Late GDC Dashing Bondhu Toni 

Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines

92% Humphrey & 8% Fr. Brannon


Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Toni

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!

GDC Dashing Bondhu Toni
Color: Orange Belton
(outdoor winter coat)
Toni is a beautiful, smaller female, loaded with OLN's Dash/Hank breeding as well as very unique, pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines in the bottom side of her pedigree. People that have seen her have offered a lot to purchase her, but she is NOT for sale. She was a great asset to our breeding and hunting program, and her pups are outstanding for our customers. She is the dam of our GDC Dashing Bondhu Tonia and GDC Dashing Bondhu Toniette.

Sire: GDC Hank's Champ Bondhu
(son of OLN's "Dash" and grandson of OLN's Hank)

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Tonette
(granddaughter of OLN's Hank)








In their loving memory!
These are some of the dams that saved this strain from becoming extinct.
Some are retired and others have passed on to the happy hunting grounds.
We had wondered why God called us to save these amazing dogs;
we now know it was because they bring so much joy into the world!



 In loving memory!

GDC Dashing Bondhu Satin

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!

White, Chestnut, & Ticked
100% Humphrey



Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu CountOrtho

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Silkette





In loving memory!
GDC Dashing Bondhu DutChess 

Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines

89% Humphrey & 11% Fr. Brannon

Gun Dog Certified

GDC Dashing Bondhu DutChess

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!


GDC Dashing Bondhu DutChess

GDC Dashing Bondhu DutChess

GDC Dashing Bondhu DutChess
Color: White, Black, & Heavy Ticking
DutChess was our pick of the litter. She was out of GDC Hank's Champ Bondhu and GDC Irish Chess Bondhu and was an outstanding young female. DutChess pointed and retrieved to hand her very first bird on her very first hunt at six months of age without any prior training and has done the same on every bird since. She did not require any training whatsoever--100% NATURAL! She had an exceptional nose, brains, and personality with a very strong willingness to please her master, making her the complete package and ideal for a personal companion, outstanding bird dog, and for our breeding program. 


Sire: *GDC Hank's Champ Bondhu
(son of OLN's "Dash" and grandson of OLN's Hank)

Dam: *GDC Irish Bondhu Chess
(daughter of  Dashing Chess Bondhu)

                               



In Babe's loving memory!
The Late
GDC Dashing Bondhu Babe

Double great-granddaughter of
OLN's Hank 
of "Hunting with Hank"

Dashing Bondhu bloodlines

90.5% Humphrey & 9.5% Fr. Brannon


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Babe
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!


GDC Dashing Bondhu Babe

Color: Tri-color (White, Black, Tan, & Ticked)

Babe is another product of our personal breeding and a born "natural" classy bird dog with awesome ability, loads of bird sense, and a pleasure to have in or outside our home. 

She was easily Gun Dog Certified after using our simple training method.  Her pedigree speaks for itself. A complete born natural, absolutely no force training or electric collar necessary. Points, backs, and retrieves to hand naturally! She is the third generation of dogs we personally owned and trained.
 
 


Sire: GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank
(double-bred Dashing Chess Bondhu and grandson of OLN's "Hank")

Dam: GDC Dashing Bondhu Princess
(granddaughter of OLN's "Hank)






In Loving Memory!
The late GDC Dashing Bondhu Chess

Double-bred Dashing Chess Bondhu
(full littermate to our Dashing Blaze Bondhu)
Granddaughter of OLN's Hank of 
"Hunting with Hank"

Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines

92.5% Humphrey & 7.5% Father Brannon


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Chess
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!



GDC Dashing Bondhu Chess

GDC Dashing Bondhu Chess

Color: White, Black, Tan, & Ticked (Tri-color)

GDC Dashing Bondhu Chess was named after Blaze's littermate sister, Dashing Chess Bondhu, who was a phenomenal reproducer of outstanding bird dogs no matter who the stud was. She is also the grandmother on both sides of our Chess's pedigree, making her double-bred Dashing Chess Bondhu

DB Chess is another born "natural," beautiful tri-color, heavy-ticked female with a strong instinct to please her master. Top breeding, ability, brains, bird sense, willingness to please, and high style make her the total bird hunter's dream package. She is a pleasure indoors or outdoors and is a true gentlemen's dog and loyal companion in or out of the field. She is also a littermate sister to our GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank, who was much the same.

Our Chess has proven herself not only as an awesome bird dog but, more importantly, as an awesome reproducer of 100% the same. We have received outstanding reports on all her pups pointing live birds and retrieving solid, some as early as 11 weeks of age. Our choice pup from her first litter was GDC Dashing Bondhu Freckles and has proven to be as "natural" as any bird dog we have ever seen. 


Sire: Hank's Ringo Bondhu
(son of OLN's "Hank" and 
Dashing Chess Bondhu)

Dam: GDC Irish Bondhu Chess
(daughter of  Dashing Chess Bondhu)


 


In Loving Memory!

GDC Dashing Bondhu Princess

Great-granddaughter of OLN's Hank of "Hunting with Hank"
and Dashing Chess Bondhu (Littermate to our Dashing Blaze Bondhu)

Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodline!

95% Humphrey & 5% Father Brannon


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Princess
Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!



GDC Dashing Bondhu Princess

GDC Dashing Bondhu Princess

Color: White, Chestnut, & Ticked

Princess was an outstanding bird dog and a true "natural" in all respects. No dog was as natural at finding birds than she, if we did not know better, one would think she had placed all the birds in the field beforehand herself. She was as naturally bird smart as any dog we have seen. Top breeding, ability, brains, bird sense, and willingness to please. Pointed solid and retrieved her very first live bird, which was a beautiful cock pheasant, without any help and made a retrieve to my hand after running into and then being lifted over a stock fence. She was an outstanding, proven reproducer of outstanding 100% natural pups. She is very missed, but her offspring live on. Mother of GDC Dashing Bondhu Prince and GDC Dashing Bondhu Babe.

 Sire: Dashing Jerry Bondhu
(100% Pure Humphrey)

Dam: Dashing MsChess Bondhu
(granddaughter of OLN's "Hank")





In Lady's Loving Memory!
The late GDC IrishKing Bondhu Lady

Double-bred IrishKing Bondhu Ashly
Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines

81% Humphrey & 19% Fr. Brannon


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC IrishKing Bondhu Lady
Proven gun dog & reproducer of 100% natural bird dogs!
Mother of our GDC Dashing Bondhu Ashly and GDC Dashing Bondhu Lady



GDC IrishKing Bondhu Lady

GDC IrishKing Bondhu Lady

Color: (White, Black, & Ticked)

Lady was double "Hall of Fame IrishKing Bondhu Ashly" bred, meaning  H/F IrishKing Bondhu Ashly is her grandsire on both sides of her pedigree. She carried more of Fr. Brannon's Irish Dashing Bondhu imported lines (19%) than any other dog we own, but still maintains a high percentage (81%) of  Humphrey's Dashing Bondhu imported from both England (1970s) and Belgium (1988) bloodlines. Lady's pedigree also carries some unique and rare, pure Dashing Bondhu Llewellin Setters imported from England by Dr. Stevenson in the 1960s and are not found in our other dogs not out of her, like Dashing Lunette Bondhu, Tallman Lady Bondhu, John's Boy Bondhu, Stephens Lady Bondhu, Nutcracker Bondhu, and Dashing Inda Bondhu, to name a few. Her unique but outstanding bloodlines assured us that her pups and grandpups, etc. will be the best quality, genetically sound, both in the field and in the home. She has proven to be one of the best dams in the field and reproducers of her generation!

It is safe to say that her double grandsire, "H/F GDC IrishKing Bondhu Ashly," was one of the most natural bird dogs ever born and produced more "natural," outstanding Llewellin Setters than any other Llewellin stud in the last 20 plus years. His most famous son was "Hall of Famed GDC Henry Prince of Pause," aka OLN's "Hank,"star of the #1 OLN's sporting show Hunting with Hank who was just one of hundreds of outstanding, natural bird dogs that he produced. So even though Hank is not in Lady's pedigree, Hank's sire and bloodlines are throughout it all.
 


The great legend 
HOF GDC IrishKing Bondhu Ashly

Lady's grandsire on both sides and the sire of OLN's "Hank"
So you can see, Lady was a product of generations of careful selection of only breeding the very best to the very best. 

We are very pleased to have had Lady as part of our breeding program and hunting family.

Lady's sire and dam were outstanding dogs in every way, and her pedigree shows that she was only a few generations from the last Llewellin Setters imported directly from Humphrey's and Fr. Brannon's personal kennels in England and Ireland. In fact, she had the original imported bloodlines closer than most other dogs we have owned. We preserved her bloodline in her amazing offspring like, GDC Dashing Bondhu Ashly, and GDC Dashing Bondhu Lady.


Sire: IrishKing Bondhu Paul
(double-bred Machad Ambassador) 

Dam: Dashing Lunette Bondhu
(IKB Ashley X Tallman's Lady Bondhu)







In Loving Memory!
 The late GDC IrishKing Bliss Bondhu

Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines

86% Humphrey's & 14% Fr. Brannon's


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC IrishKing Bliss Bondhu

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!


GDC IrishKing Bliss Bondhu

GDC IrishKing Bliss Bondhu
Color: Blue Belton
Bliss was a beautiful blue belton female. She was out of our great GDC IrishKing Ashly Bondhu and was another outstanding, natural bird dog and perfect example of what he produces. Her dam, Dashing Bleu Bondhu, is out of Dashing Bondhu Blue who is out of Dashing Bondhu LaBlue, which are great, pure Dashing Bondhu's not found in our other Llewellin pedigrees. These unique but awesome pure Dashing Bondhu imported Humphrey and Fr. Brannon's bloodlines assure that her pups are second to none.

Bliss is also a small female, only about 35 pounds, and as beautiful as a blue belton Setter could be. Pictures don't do her justice, and she is the great- granddaughter of OLN's Hank and Dashing Chess Bondhu (Blaze's littermate)!


Sire: Our GDC IrishKing Ashly Bondhu
(double-bred IrishKing Bondhu Ashly) 

Dam: Dashing Bleu Bondhu



 




In Loving Memory!
 The late GDC Dashing Odette Bondhu 

Granddaughter of OLN's Hank of Hunting with Hank
and Dashing Chess Bondhu (littermate to our Dashing Blaze Bondhu)

Pure Dashing Bondhu bloodline!
96.5% Humphrey & 3.5% Father Brannon

Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Odette Bondhu

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!


GDC Dashing Odette Bondhu

GDC Dashing Odette Bondhu
Color: White, Chestnut, & Chestnut Ticked
Odette was a beautiful female with hacrdly any ticking and just a hestnut patch around her right eye. She is already an outstanding proven reproducer of "natural" bird dogs. She is loaded with the Count Otho Dashing Bondhu bloodlines. Her mother, Dashing Othoette Bondhu (pure Humphrey), is one of the best-producing Llewellin Setter Dams in recent history, and her sire, Hall of Fame Hank's Ringo Bondhu (son of OLN's Hank & Dashing Chess Bondhu), has proven to be one of the best producing studs in his generation as well. Her pedigree is loaded with the most outstanding reproducers in recent Llewellin Setter History, including  OLN's "Hank" of Hunting with Hank and his sire, IrishKing Bondhu Ashly, Dashing Ringold Bondhu, Dashing Ringo Bondhu, and Dashing Awrose Bondhu, just to name a few. Odette made it possible for Mountain View Kennel to produce double-bred Hank's Ringo Bondhu when bred to our GDC Dashing Bondhu Hank and double-bred Dashing Othoette Bondhu when bred to our GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo. Odette was also a high tailed, very classy, natural bird-hunting machine with a wonderful, sensible, loving, loyal personality and a complete pleasure to have around our home. She is the complete package of the best breeding, best natural hunting ability, awesome personality, and proven reproducer of the same. She is a dam to our GDC Dashing Bondhu Othoette.

Sire: Hank's Ringo Bondhu
(son of OLN's "Hank")

Dam: Dashing Othoett Bondhu
(100% Humphrey)
with pups




In Loving Memory!
The late GDC Dashing Bondhu Janie

Daughter of 
GDC IrishKing Ashly Bondhu!
(see Ashly on our studs page)

Belgium Dashing Bondhu bloodline!

72% Humphrey, 15.5% Fr. Brannon's, and 12.5% Belgium (Humphrey)
Technically 84.5% Humphrey & 15.5% Fr. Brannon


 Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Janie

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!



GDC Dashing Bondhu Janie
Color: White, Chestnut, and Ticked
Janie was a beautiful, awesome female and is a half sister to our "Dashing Bondhu Bell." She has some of the rarest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines found in the world on her dam's side. She not only has the pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines of Humphrey and Fr. Brannon, but also has pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines imported from Belgium in her pedigree. What makes her bloodline so rare is to find pure Dashing Bondhu bloodlines from Belgium because, like in American, almost all imported Dashing Bondhus were used to improve other lines, were outcrossed, and not kept 100% pure. Janie is also a small female, only about 40 pounds.

She is out of our own stud "IrishKing Ashly Bondhu" and is a fine example of what he produced. She had many outstanding pups to her name and is the dam of our GDC Dashing Bondhu Jane and GDC Dashing Bondhu Janette.



Sire: GDC IrishKing Ashly Bondhu
(double-bred "IrishKing Bondhu Ashly")

Dam: King's Bondhu IrishBel
(25% Belgium Dashing Bondhu bloodlines)








In Loving Memory!
 The late GDC Dashing Bondhu Rosie 

100% Pure Humphrey Dashing Bondhu
100% imported from England
Purest Dashing Bondhu bloodlines
found in the world!


Gun Dog Certified
GDC Dashing Bondhu Rosie

Proven reproducer of natural bird dogs!


GDC Dashing Bondhu Rosie
White, Chestnut, & Heavy Ticked
Rosie is 100% Humphrey directly from the 1960s England imports to Dr. Stephenson's kennel. The majority of all pure Humphrey Dashing Bondhu bloodlines were imported by Dr. Stephenson from William Humphrey's grandson, Chris Sorenson. They all go back to Llewellin's original kennel. Very few of these are left in the world without any Irish or Belgium blood added. No better bloodlines can be found in the world than the pure Humphreys imported directly from Chris Sorenson to Dr. Stephenson. 

We had plans of breeding her to GDC Dashing Bondhu Ringo who is also 100% Dr. Stephenson's imported lines from the 1960s.


Sire: Dashing  Awtoney Bondhu
Passed away in early 2010
(100% pure Humphrey)

Dam: Dashing Rosie Bondhu
(100% Humphrey)







Please note: Statements of percentages of bloodlines in our dogs and pups are calculated approximations made to the best of our knowledge and ability from the pedigree information we had at the time and are nonbinding and subject to change.
 
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All our Llewellin Setters are permanently identified with registered AVID® microchips,
tattooed, and are DNA-swabbed for 
genetic identification.


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