Paint River Llewellins

Paint River Llewellins Raising and training setters since 2004. Training all breeds since 1996. www.paintriverllewellins.com Kyle has extensive experience with dogs on many levels.

Owner, breeder, and trainer, Kyle Warren, of Paint River Llewellins, has been professionally training dogs since 1996. He works with all breeds of dogs and people to build relationship fundamentals and to strengthen utility such as: upland bird hunting, waterfowl hunting, search and rescue area search and tracking/trailing and protection work. Twenty years of access and experience with a family-ru

n pet food and supply store have made him well versed in canine nutrition, along with his years as a veterinary technician in both private and emergency practice. Kyle’s livelihood is as a professional dog trainer. He has educated more than 3,200 people, trained 4,100 dogs encompassing 100 breeds. Kyle works with people and their dogs with: relationship fundamentals of basic & advanced obedience, rehabbing aggressive behaviors, problem solving undesired behaviors, upland bird and waterfowl hunting; search and rescue in: area search; both live-find and cadaver, tracking / trailing. With a life dedicated to dogs such as Kyle's— you can find comfort in having a trusted resource that is selectively raising and training Llewellin Setters for both the preservation and advancement of this marvelous breed. Kyle has owned and trained Llewellin Setters since 2004. Paint River Llewellins live as hunting family dogs that must prove themselves on wild birds in the Upper Midwest for six weeks during the hunting season. We get their hips certified and extensive genetic testing completed. Our dogs' happiness, health and hunting careers always comes first. An important message from Paint River Llewellin Setters:
As a responsible breeder and trainer of quality working dogs I feel it is my duty to urge all people looking for companion-only dogs versus hunting-family dogs, to support one of your local shelters and find a dog in need of a home to adopt that is a great fit for your household. There are hundreds of thousands of dogs who need homes in shelters across this country alone. While I bring many dogs into this world I feel very strongly that if your future dog is not going to be a working dog doing what the breed was bred to do as a dog lover it's your duty to look after our shelter dogs that deserve a loving home. While Paint River Llewellins are bred to be great family dogs that is one side of the coin. The other is their workability that is unparallelled. So when looking at a long term commitment such as this please think wisely for both yourself and all the homeless dogs out there. For me, my Llewellins are poetry in motion that provide me with tremendous joy in watching them utilize their instincts that have been bred into them for over a century and with such a team spirit. This just puts me in awe of them. To top it off they are the main reason our dinner is on the table that night after our hard day's work. So even though my llews snuggle with me in bed and pal around all over the place with me— think of a shelter dog when you think companion dog. Think of a Llewellin Setter when you think hunting-family dog.

11/12/2025

Lacey & Sylvi hard at work. It’s a heck of a job but somebody has to do it.

Namé had the end of day cover and she found the birds. Didn’t matter if they were in the trees or running hard through t...
11/11/2025

Namé had the end of day cover and she found the birds. Didn’t matter if they were in the trees or running hard through the aspen and hazel— she was in her zone and went 8/8 on her ruffs. Only had two other finds all day. Thankfully I went 1/1 on shooting today.

The littles getting some lunch time training in.
11/11/2025

The littles getting some lunch time training in.

Aadi had all the action end of day. We squeezed her in for a 30 minute hunt before heading home. No birds until the last...
11/10/2025

Aadi had all the action end of day. We squeezed her in for a 30 minute hunt before heading home. No birds until the last two minutes just 50 yards from the truck. She goes on point. I step up ahead of her 10 yards to survey and await a flush. Nothing. I try to get her to advance—nope. I walk another 10’yarfs ahead to some young dense balsam. Aadi still won’t move. I head into the balsam and as I get 10 feet inside the trees. Birds start popping up left and right. I counted 7 flushes before I could break to the perimeter where I saw one and missed. Reloaded quickly and another one came up and I was able to get that one on a long left to right away shot. Prior to those final moments today it was just a lot of quiet walks in the woods. Aadi was down for three weeks with a sliced pad but she’s had a great season so far.

A blustery November day, snow showers, steady northwest wind and wary tree birds. Only five flushes all day until the la...
11/10/2025

A blustery November day, snow showers, steady northwest wind and wary tree birds. Only five flushes all day until the last ten minutes with Aadi. Here’s Namé pointing a pair of ruffs in a cluster of mature spruce.

11/10/2025

Ina’amii had her pups a few days ago and everyone is doing well. I’m excited to see what these wee pups turn out to be next fall.

Small and mighty.
11/09/2025

Small and mighty.

Puppy time in the Northwoods.
11/09/2025

Puppy time in the Northwoods.

Giimoo crouches low on point as this grouse was 15 feet above her head in the tree.
11/08/2025

Giimoo crouches low on point as this grouse was 15 feet above her head in the tree.

Namé pointing a ruff in the marsh.
11/07/2025

Namé pointing a ruff in the marsh.

A lot of thoughts about one’s life happens when you walk alone in these kinds of places many hundreds of hours every yea...
11/06/2025

A lot of thoughts about one’s life happens when you walk alone in these kinds of places many hundreds of hours every year. You realize what’s important in life and that being present in the moment is of the utmost importance.

Right place. Wrong time.
11/06/2025

Right place. Wrong time.

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