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About the Hamiltonstovare

Origin: Sweden
Typical life span
10-14 years
Size
Large — from its typical weight
Weight
23-34 kg
Height
Male
52-61 cm
Female
48-57 cm
FCI status
Recognised by FCI
FCI group
Scent hounds and related breeds
Origin
Sweden
Also called
Sabueso Hamilton
Known hereditary risks
Not researched yet

About

What is a Hamiltonstovare?

Medium-sized Swedish tricolor scent hound with athletic build and noble appearance, bred for endurance and skill in hunting fox and hare over challenging terrain

Hamiltonstovare history and origins

Developed in the late 19th century by Count Adolf Patrick Hamilton using English Foxhounds, Harriers, and German hounds including Holsteiner Hounds to create a dedicated Swedish hunting breed

Hamiltonstovare appearance and size

Males typically stand 52-61 cm at the shoulder and females 48-57 cm.

What the breed standard says

Bred for
Scent hound that gives tongue and is used for hunting hare and fox. It is not a pack hound and it is never used for hunting deer
Behaviour and temperament
“Friendly and even-tempered”

Quoted from FCI standard n°132. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Breed reference from The Dog API.

Characteristics

Size
Large
Exercise needs
4 of 5
Easy to train
—
Amount of shedding
—
Grooming needs
3 of 5
Good with children
—
Cost to keep
—
Tolerates being alone
—
Intelligence
—
Health of breed
Not researched yet

Pros & cons

Pros & cons for the Hamiltonstovare

What you get with the Hamiltonstovare

  • Purpose stated in the standard: “Scent hound that gives tongue and is used for hunting hare and fox. It is not a pack hound and it is never used for hunting deer”
  • The standard describes the breed as: “Friendly and even-tempered”

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 · Hamiltonstovare

Coat and colour

As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.

Coat

Harsh, not too short, lying very close to body.

On head, ears and front of legs coat should be very short and smooth.

Under tail and on back of thighs hairs might be slightly longer

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.

Base colour

Tricolour

  • On the adult dog black colour to form a mantle to continue on upper side of neck and upper side of tail.
  • Tan on head, ears and legs, as well as on sides of the neck, on shoulders, under body, on thighs and under the tail.
  • Clear marking between the black mantel and the tan on thighs.
  • The tan colour can range from a golden tint to a rich, deep rusty red.
  • Permissible: White markings as a blaze, on throat, upper side of neck, collar, on brisket, tip of tail and lower part of legs and on feet

Shortened from FCI standard n°132 — 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 breed standard says

Size
“Height at the withers: Males: Ideal height 57 cm, allowed variation 53–61 cm. Females: Ideal height 53 cm, allowed variation 49–57 cm”
FCI distinguishes an ideal from what is permitted.

Quoted from FCI standard n°132. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

What the standard penalises

What a judge marks the Hamiltonstovare 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.

Disqualifying faults

Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.

  • Shy and severely aloof.
  • Pronounced over- or undershot bite.
  • Two-coloured (yellow-white, black-white, black-tan).
  • All other colours or marking than the ones in the standard.
  • Size the limits in the standard.
  • Blue eyes, one or both

FCI standard n°132

Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Hamiltonstovare in general; any individual animal can differ.

Health guide

What to ask for in a Hamiltonstovare

No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Hamiltonstovare 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

This is where Hamiltonstovare owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.

A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.

Puppies

No puppies listed right now

No Hamiltonstovare 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.

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