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UKC Gun Dog · FCI standard 177
Braque de l'Ariege.
FCI 177 utilization: 'Pointing dog'; braccoid type, 'powerful but without excessive heaviness', lean legs, prominent muscles; stable and sociable with humans and other dogs, 'adapted to all types of hunting', resistant, docile, easy to train. UKC: 'docile, easy to train and adaptable to all kinds of hunting'. Wikipedia: 'quick, energetic, and very independent'; Wamiz: kept mainly as a working dog, can be aloof with strangers.
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
Center is the FCI preferred size. Low is the FCI floor, high the Wamiz and Wikipedia ceiling (26 in); the two registry standards alone give 21.3 to 25.5 in. Conversions: 54 cm = 21.3, 63 = 24.8, 59 = 23.2.
Weight
Editorial, from a pet-information site with no stated source; 25 to 30 kg = 55 to 66 lb, so the retailer figure agrees. Not a registry weight.
Coat
fci_177 and ukc_ar.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the FCI 177 and UKC coat text (short dense = 4).
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
fci_177, ukc_ar, wiki_ar, wamiz_ar. Revived from 1990 by a team of breeders after wartime losses (FCI, UKC). Wikipedia traces it to Perdiguero de Burgos and Bracco Italiano crosses; the FCI text says old French Braques crossed with southern white-and-orange Braques. Both stand.
Primary game
Two editorial pages; no standard names a species.
Search pattern
fci_177, ukc_ar, wiki_ar, wamiz_ar. Range is not stated by any source, so it is not scored.
Field trial standard
fci_177, ukc_ar, navhda_breeds, akc_elig. Wamiz says the UK Kennel Club recognized it in 2006; the UKC page says United Kennel Club, which is the one read.
Cold water
Derived from coat only (fci_177, ukc_ar).
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
- Ariege Pointer, Ariege Pointing Dog, Braque de l'Ariège, Braque de Toulouse (former name)
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All published breedsYour braque de l'ariege, on the record.
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