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UKC Scenthound · FCI standard 151
Istrian Short-haired Hound.
FCI 151 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 and very popular with huntsmen for its hunting ability; suited to rough, stony (Karst) areas and all others. UKC: highly prized for fox and hare hunting; gentle, docile, calm and attached to its owner; lively and enthusiastic when hunting. Thesis: adept on hare, fox and wild boar, usable as a blood-tracker, popular with hunters. Wikipedia: kept for hunting rather than as a pet, especially valued for fox and rabbit..
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 are the FCI printed range.
Weight
UKC and Wikipedia agree on 40 lb for males. No figure printed for females.
Coat
FCI says orange; UKC says lemon and allows solid white. Both stand.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short close coat = 5). 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.
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
FCI adds boar and tracking; UKC and Wikipedia name fox with hare or rabbit. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Primary game
Wikipedia says rabbit where FCI, UKC and the thesis say hare; all stand.
Also used on
FCI and the thesis agree.
Search pattern
Voice on the line is stated by all of FCI, the thesis and Wikipedia. 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 stating an absence of documentation, not a survey result.
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
- Istrian Shorthaired Hound, Istarski kratkodlaki gonic
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