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Anglo-Francais de Petite Venerie

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UKC Scenthound · FCI standard 325

Anglo-Francais de Petite Venerie.

FCI 325 utilization: scenthound for hunting small game. UKC: scenthound for hunting small game; created in France, most likely from the 16th century, by crossing English hounds with French hounds. Wikipedia FR: a hunting dog for any game, for chasse a courre or on foot; a recent creation (1950s), first called petit anglo-francais, name fixed when the standard was filed in 1978..

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.

0INHeightall null. An ideal from the standard, not a range.

The body

What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.

Height at the shoulder

18.9 to 22 in

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1983

Standards print one range for both sexes. Low and high span FCI and UKC. No center.

Coat

FCI 325: short, dense, smooth; tricolour (white and black with bright tan), white and black with pale tan, or bicolour white and orange; nose black, brown (tobacco) on white and orange. UKC: short, dense, smooth; white and black with bright or pale tan markings, or orange and white.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1983

UKC lists the colors without the tricolour label.

Heat tolerance

5 of 5 · FCI 325 and UKC: short, dense, smooth coat

DerivedFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1983

Derived from the coat description (short single smooth coat = 5). No measured data.

The dog at home

What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.

Exercise need

Wikipedia FR: not suited to city life, needs a lot of physical activity, better with other dogs than alone.

EditorialWikipedia FR

Single editorial source; no minutes figure.

The work

What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.

Role

FCI 325 utilization: scenthound for hunting small game. UKC: scenthound for hunting small game; created in France, most likely from the 16th century, by crossing English hounds with French hounds. Wikipedia FR: a hunting dog for any game, for chasse a courre or on foot; a recent creation (1950s), first called petit anglo-francais, name fixed when the standard was filed in 1978.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1983

Wikipedia FR dates the breed to the 1950s and UKC to the 16th century; both stand. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).

Primary game

FCI 325 and UKC: small game. Wikipedia FR: hare, also fox, wild boar and roe deer.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1983

Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).

Also used on

Wikipedia FR: fox, wild boar, roe deer, in addition to hare.

EditorialWikipedia FR

Single editorial source.

Search pattern

Wikipedia FR: used alone or in a group; endurance, keen nose from its French side, vigor from its English side; intelligent, easy to train. No source read states voice.

EditorialWikipedia FR

Single editorial source; voice not stated.

Field trial standard

FCI 325 classification: Group 6, Section 1.2 Medium-sized Hounds, with working trial. The trial rules themselves were not read.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1983

Rules are national; not read.

No KENAI kennel lists the Anglo-Francais de Petite Venerie yet. If you breed them, list your kennel free: it shows on this page and in the hunting dog breed finder, under every handler whose answers land on the breed.

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. 2 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.

Also called
Anglo Francais de Petite Venerie, Medium-Sized Anglo-French Hound, Petit Anglo-Francais

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