Thread: Llewellin Setter breed

Can you attest to my knowledge or have I been misled. You being as close as you are have you ever been in contact with Ms a Goes or her niece? I would like to hear more if you would have aby more knowledge. Especially if I am incorrect on any account.

Originally Posted by Hales Smut

Ms à Goes was a bit of a strange person. She had plenty of dogs from the original lines, but she lost every bit of feeling with the modern setter and pointer world. She kept her line pure, but was unable to compete against more modern dogs coming from Italy and France. I must say that I saw one extremely good shooting dog from her breeding.
She refused to cross any foreign blood into her dogs. Dr Guberti , the pope of Italian pointers, once said that there is a huge diffrence between breeding dogs and trial dogs.
His breeding stuff was pure linebred (inbred), but the trial stuff was always a first generation outcross. I tnink she also should have done a slight outcross on a few occasions to refresh the genes. Thans breeding these outcrosses back in the line.

Her kennel is still succeeded by her niece Sabine Van Zurpele and Monique Renard.