Ancient Central Asian sighthound with elegant, long-legged build and characteristic feathering on ears, tail, and legs. Known for exceptional speed, stamina, and endurance, developed for hunting in harsh steppe conditions.
Ancient sighthound developed by nomadic Kazakh tribes for hunting game such as fox, hare, badger, and wolf across vast steppes. Name 'Tazy' means 'pure' or 'noble' reflecting esteemed status. Provisionally recognized by FCI in 2024, preservation efforts ongoing.
Males typically weigh 20-29 kg and stand 60-70 cm at the shoulder; females 18-25 kg and 55-65 cm.
“Temperament balanced, agile. Has a high speed of assessing the situation and making decisions. Can be a bit reserve to strangers. In everyday life - calm and unobtrusive, with a great sense of self-confidence, intolerant of maltreatment. When hunting, he is passionate, manoeuvrable, and has high speed with great endurance over long distances. Universal – combines sharp- sightedness and scent search, some can also retrieve”
Quoted from FCI standard n°372. 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 · Kazakh Tazy
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Soft, smooth, closely set, short on body, about 3 cm (in loin region).
Almost without undercoat in summer.
In winter, undercoat can be well-developed.
Soft, wavy hair on ears forms fringes, the so called “burka”, covering all of the ear leather and extending 5-6 cm below it.
Feathering on the hind of the legs.
Forelegs are feathered with sparse, quite short hair up to wrist.
Hind legs feathered with longer hair up to the middle of lower thigh.
The tail is covered with longish (about 10 cm) thin feathering from approximately the middle to the tip.
Soft hair between the toes on feet.
Dogs younger 1.5 years old can be covered with fluff on forelegs up to the middle of forearms, on hind legs up to hocks, as well as on ribs and brisket.
Puppies may have slight fluff on the top of the head
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
Yellow, with all shades (ranging from pale fawn to red)
Shortened from FCI standard n°372 — 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°372. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What a judge marks the Kazakh Tazy 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.
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Kazakh Tazy in general; any individual animal can differ.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Kazakh Tazy 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 Kazakh Tazy 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 Kazakh Tazy 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.
