Large, sturdily built French scent hound with a rough double coat, distinctive beard and mustache, and noble appearance. Known for exceptional stamina, courage, and independent nature, bred for hunting wild boar and deer in rough terrain.
One of the oldest French scent hounds, descended from ancient Celtic hounds and royal white hounds of France. Developed in the Vendée region during the Middle Ages for hunting large game such as wild boar, deer, and wolves with exceptional courage and stamina.
Males typically stand 62-68 cm at the shoulder and females 60-65 cm.
“Behaviour: Fine nose, has a beautiful voice; assiduous on the track, does not refuse thorny undergrowth, needs large territories. Temperament: Docile, but wilful and passionate, needs to be kept well in hand”
Quoted from FCI standard n°282. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Breed reference from The Dog API.
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.
FCI standard · Grand Griffon Vendeen
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording.
Long without exaggeration, sometimes bushy and harsh (coarse and hard)
undercoat dense
the belly and the inside of the thighs must not be bare
eyebrows well pronounced but not covering the eye
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.
Base colour
Black with white spotting (white and black)
Shortened from FCI standard n°282 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
Quoted from FCI standard n°282. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What a judge marks the Grand Griffon Vendeen 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.
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Grand Griffon Vendeen in general; any individual animal can differ.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Grand Griffon Vendeen 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.
This is where Grand Griffon Vendeen owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.
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No Grand Griffon Vendeen breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.
