Grand Griffon Vendeen.

FCI 282: scenthound used by hunters with or without guns, on large game, generally in a pack or individually as a limer (a dog held on a lead to pick up a cold trail). FCI classification: Group 6, Section 1.1 Large-sized Hounds, with working trial. UKC: used on large game, generally in a pack..

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 24.4 to 27.5 in · bitches 23.5 to 25.6 in

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 282

Two registry bands; both stand.

Coat

FCI: hair long without exaggeration, sometimes bushy and harsh; dense undercoat; belly and inside of thighs not bare; eyebrows well pronounced but not covering the eye. UKC: fairly long, coarse and hard with a dense undercoat, moustache and eyebrows well pronounced; woolly coat is a disqualification. Colors: white and black, white and orange, black and tan, tricolor, fawn with black overlay; hare, wolf, badger or wild-boar colors (solid white or solid black disqualify).

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 282

Heat tolerance

3 of 5 · FCI: long without exaggeration, sometimes bushy and harsh, undercoat dense. UKC: fairly long, coarse and hard with a dense undercoat.

DerivedFCI-Standard N° 282

Derived from the standard's coat description; no measured data. Medium-to-long double coat = 3.

The work

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

Role

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 282

Primary game

Stag, roe deer, wild boar and fox (FCI 282 utilization; UKC history names the same four). Wikipedia: first of the Vendée griffons, bred from the Greffier, a lineage back to the 16th century.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 282

Search pattern

FCI 282: fine nose, a beautiful voice, assiduous on the track, does not refuse thorny undergrowth. Worked generally in a pack, or singly as a limer on a cold trail. UKC: docile but willful and passionate; has to be kept well in hand.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 282

FCI behaviour line is the working description; neither standard prints a search pattern in handler terms.

Field trial standard

FCI classification lists the breed 'with working trial'. The standard does not print the trial rules.

Breed clubFCI-Standard N° 282

Working-trial rules sit with the French club (Club du Griffon Vendéen) and the Société Centrale Canine; not read.

No KENAI kennel lists the Grand Griffon Vendeen 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.

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Also called: Grand Griffon Vendeen, GGV

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