Base colour
Fawn coloured, from golden wheaten to red brick in hue
- Permissible: A few black hairs dispersed on the back and ears
- Occasionally the presence of a small white star on the chest, something not sought after
About the Fawn Brittany Griffon
Origin: FranceFawn Brittany Griffon
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Scent hounds and related breeds
- Origin
- France
- Also called
- Grifon Leonado de Bretana
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Scent hound used for hunting hare, fox, roe deer and wild boar
- Behaviour and temperament
“Fauves de Bretagne are impassioned hunters but are good natured with people, sociable, affectionate and equable. They adapt themselves easily to all terrains and to all quarry. When hunting they reveal themselves to be courageous, wily, tenacious and steady. They are enterprising and efficient but show themselves equally capable of harking in. When well conducted, they are obedient and return readily”
Quoted from FCI standard n°66. 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: “Scent hound used for hunting hare, fox, roe deer and wild boar” 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 Fawn Brittany Griffon
What you get with the Fawn Brittany Griffon
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Scent hound used for hunting hare, fox, roe deer and wild boar”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Fauves de Bretagne are impassioned hunters but are good natured with people, sociable, affectionate and equable”
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 · Fawn Brittany Griffon
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
The face shouldn’t be too bushy
- Coat very rough
- Harsh
- Rather short
- Never woolly or curly
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°66 — 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
- “MALES and FEMALES: 48 cm minimum (19”) 56 cm maximum (22”) with a tolerance of 2 cm (0.8”) for exceptional specimens”
- FCI gives a bound on one side only, so there is no range to state.
Quoted from FCI standard n°66. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the Fawn Brittany Griffon 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.
Severe faults
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
- Behaviour:
- Timid. Head:
- Wide, flat skull. Superciliary arches too prominent,
- Short or pointed muzzle. Heavy and pendulous upper lips. Eyes:
- Light. Ears:
- Flat and large. Body:
- Frail in appearance. Topline not level enough. Too tucked up. Tail:
- Out of line. Limbs:
- Poor bone. Splayed feet. Coat:
- Sparse, smooth, fine, soft
Disqualifying faults
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
- Insufficient breed characteristics, which means the animal on the whole doesn’t resemble other samples of the breed. Jaws/Teeth:
- Overshot or undershot. Eyes:
- Overly light. Pigmentation:
- Totally or partially unpigmented areas on the nose or the edges of eyelids or lips. Tail:
- Kinked. Dewclaws:
- Presence of dewclaws (this breed is always free from dewclaws). Coat:
- Long, woolly coat. Any coat other than that defined by the standard. Si:
- Outside the limits defined by the standard. Defects:
- Noticeable invalidating defect. Anatomical malformation
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Fawn Brittany Griffon in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Fawn Brittany Griffon
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Fawn Brittany Griffon 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 Fawn Brittany Griffon 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 Fawn Brittany Griffon 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.