{"id":10112,"count":1,"description":"The Llewellin Setter is a medium size gun dog bred to hunt upland game birds and for field trial, with origins in the English Setter. It is a strain of English setter that appears to be gaining popularity in North America given losses of large areas to hunt, leaving hunters with the need for a closer ranging hunting dog and family companion. It is also referred to as a field English setter.\nIt appears that the English Setter existed as a trained bird dog in England by about 400 years ago, with origins in crosses of the Spanish Pointer, Large Water Spaniel, and Springer Spaniel. The progenitors' characteristics combined to produce an excellent bird dog with a high degree of proficiency in finding and pointing game in open country. The modern English Setter owes its appearance to two men in 19th century England, who selectively bred their dogs based on field, not show, performance: Mr. Edward Laverack (1800\u20131877), and Mr. R. Purcell Llewellin (1840\u20131925). Llewellin's strain was based on...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/llewellyn\/","name":"Llewellyn","slug":"llewellyn","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/10112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=10112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}