- Fawn, lighter or darker, overlaid with black or not and sometimes with a little white on the chest and on the limbs
- grey, lighter or darker, often with some white on the head, chest and limbs
- blue with black mottling (harlequin or slate blue).
- There are also brindle, black coats and or black with white markings (limited spotting).
- Preferred: Solid colours
About the Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog
Origin: FranceLong Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs)
- Origin
- France
- Also called
- Perro Pastor de Los Pirineos de Pelo Largo
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Sheepdog used in the farms and pastures of the Pyrenees
- Behaviour and temperament
“It is a courageous, resourceful little dog, showing initiative ant totally devoted to its master. It is headstrong by nature and firm control is usually needed to channel its energy and bring out the best of its intelligence liveliness. It is often wary of strangers”
Quoted from FCI standard n°141. 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: “Sheepdog used in the farms and pastures of the Pyrenees” 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
- —
- Amount of shedding
- —
- Grooming needs
- 4 of 5
- Good with children
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- Cost to keep
- —
- Tolerates being alone
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- Intelligence
- —
- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog
What you get with the Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Sheepdog used in the farms and pastures of the Pyrenees”
- The standard describes the breed as: “It is a courageous, resourceful little dog, showing initiative ant totally devoted to its master”
What you are taking on
- High grooming needs — the standard’s own description is “Long, or semi-long, but always dense, almost flat or slightly wavy, thicker and woollier…”
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 · Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged preferred.
Coat
Long, or semi-long, but always dense, almost flat or slightly wavy, thicker and woollier on the croup and thighs, texture somewhere between goat’s hair and sheep’s wool.
In some dogs the mixture of coarse and woolly hair can produce sorts of strands or cords called “cadenettes" and sometimes matted or felted hair called “matelotes” which overlap like tiles on the croup. “Cadenettes” can be found on the chest and the forelegs at elbow level.
The muzzle has shorter, less dense hair.
On the end of the muzzle, and sometimes along the whole muzzle, it is laid flat and set from front to back.
On the sides as well as on the cheeks, the hair is longer and brushed up in a windswept way from front to back.
Eyes must be clearly visible and not covered by hair
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°141 — 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 withers: Males from 42 cm to 48 cm. Females from 40 cm to 46 cm. A tolerance of + or - 2 cm is allowed for perfectly typed specimens”
- FCI states a tolerance around the figure.
Quoted from FCI standard n°141. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog 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
No Long Haired Pyrenean Sheepdog 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.