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AKC Foundation Stock Service · FCI standard 348
Taiwan Dog.
FCI 348 utilization: hunting dog, watch dog, companion dog; descended from South Asian hunting dogs that ancient inhabitants of the central mountains lived with, the loyal companion of the ancient hunter in the wild forest; now popular across the island as a watch and companion dog. Wikipedia: kept by Taiwanese aborigines as hunting dogs; now also guard, stunt and rescue dogs. Taiwan Business TOPICS: the same traits (loyalty, courage, athleticism) that made them valuable hunting partners now make them family pets and watchdogs; a leading breeder judges a true Taiwan Dog partly on sense of smell and hunting ability..
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. Wikipedia's 47 cm differs by 1 cm from the FCI standard's printed 48 cm; both stand.
Weight
No ideal printed. The AKC range is counted in both sex rows.
Coat
Shedding
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short dense = 4; FCI does not say whether an undercoat is present, so not 5). No measured data.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Exercise need
AKC bands and editorial; no minutes-per-day band published.
Energy
AKC bands, not measured.
Grooming load
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
Grooming
AKC bands.
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
No UKC page found. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Primary game
FCI names no game. One non-registry source; Wikipedia's account of the aboriginal boar hunt cites no registry. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Search pattern
Pack work (a small pack on one boar) by Wikipedia only; no registry or club source states the hunting method, and no voice (bay or silent) is described. Editorial views are shown beside the standard, labelled; where they disagree both stand (Chad, Oct 8 2026).
Field trial standard
Cold water
Derived from the short coat. No measured data.
More
akc bands
Fourteen AKC bands in one row; the selector reads each by name. Breed-club ratings: a tendency, never a measurement.
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
- Formosan Mountain Dog, Taiwanese Native Dog, Tugou, 台灣犬
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