Austrian Black and Tan Hound.

FCI 63: universally popular hunting dog, suited to heavy work on high mountains as well as flat country, hunting by giving tongue and tracking wounded game (Group 6 Scenthounds, Section 1.2 medium-size scenthounds, with working trial). UKC: prized for heavy work on high mountains and flat country; sensitive nose for tracking, willing and agreeable. Wikipedia DE: used either as a Schweisshund (blood tracker) or as a Stoeberhund (flushing hound), depending on training..

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.

0INHeightdogs null, bitches 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

dogs 19 to 22 in · bitches 18.9 to 22 in

Breed clubUnited Kennel Club

Low/high span both standards; no ideal printed, so no center.

Coat

Smooth hair, close fitting, dense, full, resilient, silky sheen, length about 2 cm (FCI 63). Black with small, clearly defined light to dark fawn markings; the two fawn markings above the eyes (the Vierauegl, 'four eyes') must be present and their absence disqualifies (FCI 63, UKC).

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1995

FCI 63; UKC agrees.

Heat tolerance

4 of 5 · Smooth hair, close fitting, dense, full, resilient with silky sheen, about 2 cm long (FCI 63). UKC: short, smooth, close fitting, dense, silky sheen.

DerivedFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1995

Derived from the standard's coat description (short dense = 4). No measured data.

The work

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

Role

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1995

FCI 63 utilization; UKC history; Wikipedia DE (editorial).

Primary game

FCI 63 names hare for giving tongue and wounded game for tracking. Wikipedia DE: works before or after the shot.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1995

Hare is named in the FCI behaviour paragraph ('giving tongue, above all, for hare').

Also used on

Tracking wounded game (FCI 63). Wikipedia DE: Schweisshund (tracking) or Stoeberhund (flushing) work depending on training; closely related to the Tyrolean Hound, Styrian Coarse-haired Hound and Bavarian Mountain Hound.

EditorialWikipedia (German), 2021

Wikipedia DE is editorial; the FCI utilization line carries the tracking of wounded game.

Search pattern

FCI 63: sensitive nose; giving tongue, above all for hare; tracking firmly and willingly with agreeable temperament. Wikipedia DE: hunts with voice on the track (spurlaut), calm, with extreme will and certainty on the track, and its sense of direction brings it back to the handler.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1995

Single-dog voice work; no source states pack work or a distance.

Field trial standard

FCI 63: with working trial (Group 6, Section 1.2). The trial rules themselves were not read.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1995

Classification only; see open_gaps.

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How to read this page

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Also called: Brandlbracke, Vieraeugl, Austrian Hound, Kaerntner Bracke

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