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FCI standard 275
Rastreador Brasileiro.
FCI 275 utilization: hunting dog used for flushing and cornering prey animals (the standard's words: 'flushing and corner prey animals'). Temperament line: they hunt in pairs, trios and packs, or even alone as a scent dog, so they should behave calmly. History (FCI): developed by genetic selection on the American Foxhound by the Brazilian breeder Osvaldo Aranha Filho, to suit the Brazilian climate; the evolution of the old Urrador Brasileiro (Brazilian Howler); first recognized by FCI on September 1 1967, suffering a major setback from the 1970s until breeding resumed in 2000; widely bred in rural areas, mainly in the north of Brazil. Wikipedia PT: Aranha began in the 1950s to make a hound for fox, armadillo, puma, jaguar and peccary, bred on local deerhound (veadeiro) and imported American Foxhound, Treeing Walker, Bluetick, English Coonhound, Black and Tan Coonhound and Petit Bleu de Gascogne; a 1973 piroplasmosis epidemic plus a tick-dip overdose killed 39 dogs of his kennel and in 1974 the Brazil Kennel Club considered the breed extinct, so FCI recognition was lost; dogs he had given to hunters and farmers kept the line going; from the 2000s the GARRB rescue group (Victor Jones, Salvador) searched out, catalogued and bred descendants (55 registered dogs after ten years, ~50 more owned by people outside the project); FCI recognition regained in 2019. Wikipedia EN: first recognized by FCI in 1967; by 1973 disease and an insecticide overdose had eliminated the breed's population and both FCI and the CBC declared it extinct and de-listed it that year; recreated through mixing and controlled breeding of other hounds; CBKC re-recognized it in 2013; updated FCI standard 2019..
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The body
What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.
Height at the shoulder
No center. Low and high span FCI and the Wikipedia PT infobox.
Weight
No center.
Coat
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short dense coat = 4); the FCI heat-work line is the standard's own statement of fitness for hot climates, not a measurement.
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
Extinction and recreation are recorded as the sources state them. The sources differ on the year (PT: 1974 by the Brazil Kennel Club; EN: 1973, by FCI and CBC) and on who declared it; FCI itself says only 'a major setback from the 70s to the year 2000'. Both stand.
Primary game
Single editorial source for the quarry list; FCI names no species.
Also used on
Single editorial source; the ranch use is described there as illegal in places.
Search pattern
FCI and Wikipedia PT agree on pair, trio and pack work. No source read prints a working distance, so range is left blank.
Field trial standard
Water work
Single editorial source; intent, not evidence.
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 intent to screen, not a published result.
How to read this page
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- Also called
- Brazilian Tracker, Urrador, Urrador Americano, Rastreador-brasileiro, Pantaneiro, Brazilian Hound
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