- • Solid brown, without markings. • Brown with small white or flecked markings at chest and legs. • Dark brown roan, with brown head, brown patches or specks.
- The basic colour of such a dog is not brown mixed with whit or white with brown, but the coat shows such an even intensive mixture of brown and white which results in that kind of inconspicuous exterior of the dog ever so valuable for the practical hunt.
- At the inner sides of the hindlegs as well as at the tip of the tail the colour is often lighter. • Light brown roan with brown head, brown patches, specks or without patches.
- Permissible: In this colouring the brown hairs are fewer, the white hairs are predominant. • White with brown head markings, brown patches or specks. • Black colour in the same nuances as the brown, respectively the brown roan colours. • Yellow tan markings. • Blaze, fleck and speckled flews are
About the German Short Haired Pointing Dog
Origin: GermanyGerman Short Haired Pointing Dog
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pointing Dogs
- Origin
- Germany
- Also called
- Braco Aleman de Pelo Corto
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Versatile hunting dog
- Behaviour and temperament
“Firm, balanced, reliable, restrained temperament, neither nervous nor shy or aggressive”
Quoted from FCI standard n°119. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Characteristics
- Size
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- Exercise needsRead from what the breed was bred to do, in the registry’s own words: “Versatile hunting dog” That is a working purpose, not a measured exercise requirement — an individual dog’s needs depend on its age, health and household.
- 4 of 5
- Easy to train
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- Amount of shedding
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- Grooming needs
- 3 of 5
- Good with children
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- Cost to keep
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- Tolerates being alone
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- Intelligence
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- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the German Short Haired Pointing Dog
What you get with the German Short Haired Pointing Dog
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Versatile hunting dog”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Firm, balanced, reliable, restrained temperament, neither nervous nor shy or aggressive”
What you are taking on
Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.
Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.
Characteristics
FCI standard · German Short Haired Pointing Dog
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
Short and dense, rough and hard to the touch.
Somewhat thinner and shorter on the head and ears, not remarkably longer at the underside of the tail.
Should cover the whole body
Colour
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.
Shortened from FCI standard n°119 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the German Short Haired Pointing Dog down for, and what puts one out of the ring, in the registry’s own words. This describes the breed standard — it is not a checklist for the animal in front of you, and a pet with a disqualifying fault is an unshowable dog rather than an unhealthy one.
Severe faults
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
- Clumsy, lymphatic, coarse conformation.
- Marked stop.
- Flesh-coloured or flecked nose (except when basic colour of coat is white).
- Snipy muzzle, concave bridge of the nose (dish-face).
- Pincer bite or partial pincer bite (For dogs older than 4 years a so- called pincer bite due to age shall not affect evaluation as long as a « Deutsch-Kurzhaar-Club » has certified that at a previous show a correct bite was confirmed).
- Distinct roach back, slight swayback.
- Considerable lack in depth of chest. Poorly developed forechest. Ribs too flat or barrel shaped.
- Distinctly turned in or turned out elbows.
- Weak and down on pasterns.
- Pastern totally vertical.
- Distinctly cow-hocked or bow-legged, in stance as well as in movement.
- Overbuilt hindquarters.
- Flat feet.
- Spread toes.
- Clumsy gait.
- Deviation of more than 2 cm from the given height at the withers
Disqualifying faults
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
- Distinctly non-typical gender characteristics.
- Absence of more than 2 teeth from the total of 4 PM 1 and 2 M3. Absence of 1 tooth or more teeth other than PM 1 and M3. Non visible teeth have to be considered as missing except when certified by a « Deutsch-Kurzhaar-Club » that at a previous show or trial their existence was confirmed.
- Overshot and undershot bite, wry mouth as well as all intergrades.
- Any surplus teeth arranged outside the dental arch.
- Cleft palate and hare lip.
- Excessively loose eyelids, ectropion, entropion, distichiasis (double row of eyelashes).
- Excessive swayback, malformation of the spine.
- Any malformation of the chest, e.g. « clipped sternum » (short sternum blending abruptly into the abdominal line).
- Dewclaws with or without bony skeleton.
- Weak character
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the German Short Haired Pointing Dog in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a German Short Haired Pointing Dog
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the German Short Haired Pointing Dog on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.
Gallery
No photographs yet
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Puppies
No puppies listed right now
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