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UKC Scenthound · FCI standard 152
Istrian Coarse-haired Hound.
FCI 152 utilization: a hound with lots of stamina, particularly fitted for hare, fox and boar hunting, but can also be used as a tracking leash hound; Group 6 section 1.2, with working trial. Easy to train for hunting; its constitution allows work in any weather. UKC: equally well suited to fox and hare as the smooth-coated Istrian; enthusiastic hunter, gentle, docile, calm and very attached to its owner. Thesis: good on hare, fox and wild boar, and usable as a blood-tracker; especially prized by Slovenian hunters in the Ribiska valley. Wikipedia: still kept primarily as a hunting dog rather than a pet; bred for performance, so it tends to be willful and harder to train than many breeds..
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 UKC ideal; FCI prints no ideal. Low and high span every cited figure (show every source): FCI, the UKC one-inch limits, and Wikipedia's breed-wide 17 to 24 in, which is not split by sex and runs wider than either standard.
Weight
Center is UKC's ideal. Low and high span UKC and Wikipedia.
Coat
FCI says orange, UKC says lemon-orange; the Croatian FCI text disqualifies lemon yellow markings. Both stand.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (medium double coat = 3). No measured data.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Energy
Text only; no AKC or RKC score. 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
Wikipedia's 'harder to train' disagrees with FCI's 'easy to train for hunting'; both stand. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Primary game
FCI and the thesis agree; UKC lists two of the three.
Also used on
FCI and the thesis agree.
Search pattern
Voice on the line is stated by FCI. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
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
- Istrian Wire-haired Hound, Istrian Rough-coated Hound, Istarski ostrodlaki gonic
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