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UKC Scenthound · FCI standard 214
Hellenic Hound.
FCI 214 utilization: a hound with a fine sense of smell and great resistance; an active hunter either alone or in a pack, responding fully in all terrains of lowland or mountains and even the rockiest and most unworkable; his voice is resonant and harmonious. Classified Group 6 section 1.2, medium sized hounds, with working trial. UKC: medium sized scenthound from Greece; lively and keen. Wikipedia EN: a scent hound for tracking and chasing hare in southern Greece. Wikipedia EL: bred as a hare hound relying on scent; hunts both alone and with a group of other scenthounds of the same or another breed; brave, intelligent, with endurance and an exceptional nose..
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
No ideal printed. Low and high span FCI and UKC.
Weight
FCI and UKC agree; Wikipedia EL's upper figure of 25 kg is the high end, shown beside them.
Coat
FCI and UKC agree.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short dense coat = 4). No undercoat is described. No measured data.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Energy
The two Wikipedia lifespans (about 11 and 15 to 17 years) disagree and neither is a measured figure; neither is entered as median_lifespan_yr. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
FCI and Wikipedia agree on single or pack work and on hare. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Primary game
Both Wikipedia articles say hare; neither cites a source on this point. FCI prints no quarry.
Search pattern
FCI prints voice quality and single or pack work. Wikipedia EN's 'extremely loud' is editorial and sits beside FCI's 'resonant and harmonious'. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
How common the problems are
Evaluated dogs skew toward breeding stock; the numbers are still the best there are.
Most common disorders
Single editorial source, an old revision of the article, citing a pet-information site. Not a measured health statement.
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
- Hellinikos Ichnilatis, Ellinikos Ichnilatis, Greek Harehound, Greek Hound, Ελληνικός Ιχνηλάτης
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