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American Leopard Hound.
UKC: Powerful, agile tree dog of medium-to-large size; an all-purpose tree dog, to be evaluated as a hunting dog. AKC breed page: One of the oldest tree dog breeds in the U.S., with extremely strong tracking ability. Outdoor Life (2003, 'Leopard Cur'): Good watchdog; can be trained for wild hog hunting, cat hunting and livestock work..
Breed sets the odds. The parents set the dog. Every number here shows its source, its spread and how sure we are. Nothing on this page is a prediction about one dog.
The body
What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.
Height at the shoulder
UKC and AKC agree.
Weight
UKC and AKC agree; Outdoor Life's typical 40 to 45 lb sits inside the range.
Coat
UKC Coat and Color. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Shedding
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the UKC coat description (double, dense but smooth = 3). UKC and AKC both state a hot-and-cold claim; that is editorial claim, not measured.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Energy
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
Grooming load
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
UKC General Appearance and Characteristics. Outdoor Life lists the breed under its earlier name Leopard Cur. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Primary game
UKC Characteristics. Sources agree on the range of game. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Also used on
Hog and livestock work appear only in the 2003 Outdoor Life sidebar; UKC and AKC do not mention them.
Search pattern
UKC Characteristics, quoted. Mouth on track: open. No source states the voice at the tree. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Field trial standard
UKC standard Note. Scoring rules for those events were not read.
More
akc bands
Fourteen AKC bands in one row; the selector reads each by name. Breed-club ratings: a tendency, never a measurement.
How to read this page
Every value carries a label. Measured means peer-reviewed data on many dogs. Studied means peer-reviewed, smaller or indirect. Breed club means a club or registry states it. Editorial means expert opinion with no measurement behind it. Where two good sources disagree, both are shown and neither is averaged.
Published when the entry rests on the best information available from no fewer than three independent sources, checked by a second pass that did not write it. 3 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.
- Also called
- Leopard Cur, Leopard Hound
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