For us, pedigrees have always served as both history lesson and road map, an absorbing study in how certain nicks reliably did, didn't, or just might produce.  Our fascination with pedigrees extends well before we devoted our interests to Llewellin setters in general and the Blizzard strain of Llewellin in particular.  Our deep files of pedigrees conjure up memories of dogs we knew intimately in the field and around the home, dogs belonging to others that we admired, dogs whose reputation was vouchsafe because of the men and women we trusted to know exactly what they were looking at in terms of performance, conformation, innate trainability, drive, tenacity, intensity on point, precocity, and companionable disposition.  Pedigrees are story lines that have already been told, as well as the narrative we continue to build on in the sixth generation of Huntmore dogs bred for our Appalachian coverts.

The Jacobs boys have been raised looking over Eric's shoulder as he pored over the pedigrees of dogs living and dead, looking for clues and connections, combinations, pieces to genetic mosaics that promise to deliver the kind of future upon which the Huntmore Llewellins are built.  When Chesney was much younger, he watched his father sketch out pedigrees and wanted in on the action.  That pedigree art shown here from Chesney's childhood we cherish just as we do the official FDSB plots that inform our future.  They represent a family's sharing of passion and purpose, strong ties that bind our life together with these fine gun dogs.