"We have taught you the old fashioned way of gentleness and patience, the Wingswept Way of the chest cord and the check cord that makes a devoted hunting companion rather than a competent mechanical animal that performs to avoid shocking punishment.

Almost everything you read about training bird dogs today centers around the e-collar, and how you can train your dog quickly and effortlessly if you will only teach your dog that he can stop the electric stimulation of the collar by doing what you require of him and to do it instantly. This sounds great, but more dogs are ruined by the wrong use of e-collars than anything I know. There is a constant stream of dogs through our training kennels that have been traumatized and ruined by the excess use of a collar. It takes many weeks to re-make these dogs into happy, loving dogs, but they never again get to the point of total trust."

I have said it to you before, I repeat, there are no short cuts in training the “Ultimate Bird Dog”.

- Deane Harris, Training the Ultimate Bird Dog: The WingSwept Way

Training the Ultimate Bird Dog The WingSwept Way Available in Paperback or CD-ROM $20.00 (includes shipping)

Why another training book?
Here are ways to train an outstanding bird dog that anyone, most specifically a novice, can use to produce a loving and obedient gun dog of exceptional ability. The one great dog that every man should have at least once in his lifetime, but to do it over and over again. Training English Pointers today often requires that the dog be run from a four-wheeler or from horseback and for the most part hunting in the same way. German dogs for the most part take much more force to train and usually require re-training or sharpening up for several seasons to become the finished dog desired. I believe it's past time to write a How-To-Book for training the ultimate foot hunting dog.

Note on back of book:
In order to be a registered "Llewellin", a Setter must be directly descended from 6 particular "pillars", or foundation dogs, that resulted from the breeding kennels of two nineteenth century Englishmen, Purcell Llewellin and Edward Laverack.

Llewellin bloodlines include Bondhu, Bomber, Gladstone, Tony O, Royacelle and Blizzard. Combinations of these lines have produced some of the finest grouse, pheasant and quail dogs ever. They are excellent for National Shoot To Retrieve and National Challenge competitions.

In the early days, we gave dogs away to confirmed Quail hunters and other small breeders, and occasionally were able to sell a dog. I found that crossing the blood lines of Bondhu, Gladstone and Blizzard, made outstanding dogs that were a pleasure to own and hunt over. Excellent loving dispositions, intelligent, birdy, natural retrievers, brave and devoted to the gun. Medium sized dogs that had tremendous stamina in any kind of weather, we still breed for these same characteristics today. Many now breed very large, high strung, big running dogs today, and I suppose if you only hunt Chucker in the mountains of the west that would make sense. But large dogs that fill up the dog box are hard to haul, and hard to handle as a house dog. I have trained all kinds of dogs over the years and the methods used with German dogs or Labs, or Pointers just won't work with a Llewellin. There is no hound blood in the Llewellin, and they just will not take the kind of abusive handling that makes that kind of dog. The more personal attention and love you give your Llewellin, the more it will give all of it's talent to you. In over 50 years of breeding and training, we have loved every dog that's come through our kennel.

Ready to order our book? Send your request (whether you would like the book in paperback or CD-ROM) with your mailing address and check for $20.00 to:

Deane Harris, Breeder - Trainer
6484 SW 60 Way
Jasper, Florida 32052