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.

Duncan’s 13th season…. Never know when it will be his last bird but he’s still has the mojo just a slower is all.
09/27/2025

Duncan’s 13th season…. Never know when it will be his last bird but he’s still has the mojo just a slower is all.

Got’em!
09/27/2025

Got’em!

Ina’amii continues to be the lucky pup. Feathers for this girl. I had a few misses today over some of the other dogs, to...
09/27/2025

Ina’amii continues to be the lucky pup. Feathers for this girl. I had a few misses today over some of the other dogs, tomorrow is another day. Any day in the woods with this crew is a good day.

Waabi, is our near seven month old pup. She’s out of Miikonaw by Llewie. She trained easy, real easy. She pointed severa...
09/26/2025

Waabi, is our near seven month old pup. She’s out of Miikonaw by Llewie. She trained easy, real easy. She pointed several grouse before today but a midday run proved to be her greatest learning experience yet. 11 birds moved, a few doubles, one bumped bird and a handful of lovely puppy points on grouse.

Miikonaw is twenty-eight pounds of a pure find’n, point’n, retrieve’n killa👊.
09/26/2025

Miikonaw is twenty-eight pounds of a pure find’n, point’n, retrieve’n killa👊.

Miikonaw has a beautiful arc in her grouse hunting career from phenom grouse puppy in her rookie season with the questio...
09/26/2025

Miikonaw has a beautiful arc in her grouse hunting career from phenom grouse puppy in her rookie season with the question how can she get better? To how experience has transformed her from a bird magnet with great bird sense to all of that magnified ten fold.

Grind time. The daily routine until January is work as many grouse dogs a day as possible sun up to sun down. Thankfully...
09/25/2025

Grind time. The daily routine until January is work as many grouse dogs a day as possible sun up to sun down. Thankfully today didn’t get above 70 degrees. Here a some photos of most of the dogs worked today. Ina’amii, Miiko & Namé all got birds in the bag today.

Rain cleared up mid afternoon and we thankfully found a pocket of birds. Another two in the bag for Ina’amii. She’s been...
09/23/2025

Rain cleared up mid afternoon and we thankfully found a pocket of birds. Another two in the bag for Ina’amii. She’s been the lucky charm so far this season with covers.

Both girls were eager to go on the last hunt of the day today. I couldn’t have written a better script. It’s going to be...
09/22/2025

Both girls were eager to go on the last hunt of the day today. I couldn’t have written a better script. It’s going to be hard to top this hunt this season. On our drive to our hunt spot we saw a spruce hen then on our hunt Namé found six grouse and one woodcock in an hour. The fourth grouse I had a shot at brought down. It was great— the kids saw the point, flush, shot, and retrieve. A very, very blessed moment with the girls. My youngest, Sylvi, is 6.5 years old and she kept right up with the pace of the hunt. Lacey acted like an old pro on her second day in a row busting bush. Smiles all around. Warms my soul when I think of today. The great outdoors, the girls on an adventure, and doing so with one of our grouse masters.

Ina’amii started our day off with a good outing.
09/22/2025

Ina’amii started our day off with a good outing.

It was an on and off wet day but a good day. Any day I’m able to get this kid on a hunt and she “mostly” enjoy beat the ...
09/21/2025

It was an on and off wet day but a good day. Any day I’m able to get this kid on a hunt and she “mostly” enjoy beat the brush with dear ole dad is a good day. Thankfully our second hunt was more dry than the first hunt. I give Lacey a lot of credit she walked over five miles today off trail and while hunting with kids can sometimes be an exercise in patience (especially in the Northwoods) it’s well worth it and she was a real champ today. Lacey saw all kinds of wildlife today and was thrilled with the dozens of mushroom species. She impressed me with her stamina. Now at 8 years old she’s a real trooper.

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