- Usual colours are lemon and white, orange and white, liver and white, and black and white.
- Self colours and tricolours are also correct
About the English Pointer
Origin: Great BritainEnglish Pointer
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pointing Dogs
- Origin
- Great Britain
- Also called
- Pointer Ingles
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Pointing dog
- Behaviour and temperament
“Aristocratic. Alert with appearance of strength, endurance and speed. Kind, even disposition”
Quoted from FCI standard n°1. 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: “Pointing dog” 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
- —
- Grooming needs
- 2 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 English Pointer
What you get with the English Pointer
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Pointing dog”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Aristocratic. Alert with appearance of strength, endurance and speed. Kind, even disposition”
- Low grooming needs, fitting for a busy owner — the coat is “Fine, short, hard and evenly distributed, perfectly smooth and straight with decided sheen”
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 · English Pointer
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording.
Coat
Fine, short, hard and evenly distributed, perfectly smooth and straight with decided sheen
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°1 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the English Pointer in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a English Pointer
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the English Pointer 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 English Pointer 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 English Pointer 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.