- The basic colour of the hair is reddish wheaten in all shades with white markings on the head, the neck, the fore chest, the chest, the belly, the underside of the limbs and the tip of the tail.
- Permissible: Never a dark brown or a chocolate brown colour which is not a colour
- The total amount of white markings must not exceed one third of the whole body.
- The white should be clear without any mottling of the basic colour.
- Characteristic white markings are placed: On the head, as a blaze or a stripe (no white on ears).
- On the neck, as a collar (complete or partial) or as a stripe.
- On the fore chest, a smaller or broader white part.
- On the belly, a white stripe.
- On the limbs, white parts on the feet, also as socks on the pasterns.
- On the tail, white tip of the tail.
- Preferred: It that there are white markings on all mentioned parts of the body and that they are symmetrically spread over the body
- Undesirable: Missing white markings on the mentioned parts of the body are seen as a fault.
- Permissible: White markings on any other parts of the body
About the Posavatz Hound
Origin: CroatiaPosavatz Hound
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Scent hounds and related breeds
- Origin
- Croatia
- Also called
- Sabueso del Valle de Save
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- A hound with excellent stamina especially suited to hunting hare, fox and boar but can also be used as a tracking leash hound
- Behaviour and temperament
“The breed is easy to train. This is a universal hound with a clear and melodic voice for hunting in all areas. Docile, neither nervous nor aggressive, reasonably lively temperament. Very devoted to the owner”
Quoted from FCI standard n°154. 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: “A hound with excellent stamina especially suited to hunting hare, fox and boar but can also be used as a tracking leash hound” 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 Posavatz Hound
What you get with the Posavatz Hound
- Purpose stated in the standard: “A hound with excellent stamina especially suited to hunting hare, fox and boar but can also be used as a tracking leash hound”
- The standard describes the breed as: “The breed is easy to train”
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 · Posavatz Hound
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged preferred, permissible and undesirable.
Coat
The hair is harsh, dense, shiny, close lying to the body.
The length is 2–3 cm.
On the back of the limbs the hair is slightly longer (up to 4 cm) also on the belly and on the underside of the tail, where it forms preferably a “little brush”
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°154 — 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: 50–56 cm. Females: 47–53 cm. Height difference of +/- 2 cm in males and females of excellent type and conformation will be tolerated”
- FCI states a tolerance around the figure.
Quoted from FCI standard n°154. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the Posavatz Hound 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.
- Dogs, which clearly show physical or behavioural abnormalities.
- Converging headlines.
- Muzzle longer than the skull.
- Untypically short muzzle.
- Undershot or overshot, wry mouth.
- Blue eyes.
- Totally un-pigmented nose, eyelids or lip rims.
- Body length shorter the height at the withers.
- Short legged, longish dog of achondroplasic type.
- Tail carried in a ring or a laterally curved tail.
- Coat on the body longer than 5 cm.
- Completely solid coloured dog, lacking the white markings.
- Traces of greyish or black colour on the body, sign of a third colour.
- White markings which are mottled with the basic colour.
- Height above or below the parameters designated in the standard
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Posavatz Hound in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Posavatz Hound
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Posavatz Hound 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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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 Posavatz Hound 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.