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FCI standard 376
Sabueso Fino Colombiano.
FCI 376 utilization: tracking, hunting and companionship. History (FCI): a hunting dog developed in Colombia from packs of hounds and some pointing dogs brought from Continental Europe, Great Britain and North America since the colonial period; used for over 200 years to track game, popular from presidents to peasants who relied on the dog for food. Wikipedia ES: created by functional selection; recognized by the Club Canino Colombiano since 2015 after a 2013 census and characterization with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; ancestors named there are Sabueso Espanol, Gran Bleu de Gascogne, Bloodhound and primitive coonhounds, mixed with local dogs. Wikipedia EN: the only recognized Colombian-native breed; adapted to jungle and mountain at up to 30 C; considered part of peasant culture; an estimated 10,000 in Colombia in 2015. FCI status of this breed is described as provisional in the KENAI batch notes; the standard text does not say so..
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 lines
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Large variety, 51 to 58 cm (FCI 376), short or wire hair.
Standard variety, 45 to 50 cm (FCI 376), short or wire hair; the smaller game hounds.
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 with tolerance and Wikipedia EN.
No center. Low and high span FCI with tolerance and Wikipedia EN.
Weight
No center.
No center.
Coat
Wikipedia EN and ES describe only the short coat; the FCI wire variety is not mentioned there. Both stand.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short dense coat = 4); the wire variety is heavier. 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
Registry text plus Wikipedia ES/EN, labelled. FCI classification: Group 6, Section 1 scenthounds, 'without working trial'.
Primary game
Single editorial source for the quarry; FCI names none. The legal status of hunting in Colombia is stated by Wikipedia EN citing the Bogota Post; it is a handler-relevant fact to verify locally.
Search pattern
No range or pack/single statement is made by any source; voice on the line is implied by the 'howling hound' description only.
Field trial standard
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; this is a conservation statement, not a disorder list.
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
- Colombian Fino Hound, Colombian Fine Hound, Fino, Perro Fino, Sabueso Tinajero, Chapolo, Bramador, Aullador, Sabujo Fino Colombiano
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