- Brown-white and brown roan with brown patches, brown mantle or brown ticking
- Permissible: blaze permitted.
- Permissible: Tan coloured markings on the muzzle, the eyes and around the anus, and on the ears, tail and legs („Jungklaus markings “)
About the Kleiner Munsterlander
Origin: GermanyKleiner Munsterlander
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pointing Dogs
- Origin
- Germany
- Also called
- Pequeno Munsterlander
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Versatile working gundog
- Behaviour and temperament
“The Kleiner Münsterländer is intelligent and capable of learning, full of temperament but even, with steady character; its attitude towards people is alert and friendly (suitable for family life), with good social behaviour and keeps close contact with his master (team spirit); with passionate, persevering predatory instinct, versatile hunting aptitudes and strong nerves and keenness for game. The dog must have the natural abilities required to hunt in close cooperation with its handler in the field, forest and water (versability), and to retrieve game to the hunter”
Quoted from FCI standard n°102. 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: “Versatile working gundog” 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
- 4 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 Kleiner Munsterlander
What you get with the Kleiner Munsterlander
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Versatile working gundog”
- The standard describes the breed as: “The Kleiner Münsterländer is intelligent and capable of learning, full of temperament but even, with steady character”
What you are taking on
- High grooming needs — the standard’s own description is “Forelegs feathered, hindlegs with breeching down to the hocks, tail with a long flag and…”
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 · Kleiner Munsterlander
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
Dense, of medium length, not or only slightly wavy, close lying, water-repellent.
The outlines of the body may not be hidden by too long coat.
By its density it should provide as good a protection against weather, unfavourable terrain conditions and injuries as possible.
Short smooth coat on the ears is faulty.
Forelegs feathered, hindlegs with breeching down to the hocks, tail with a long flag and white tip, abundant coat on the fore chest is undesirable
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°102 — 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: Dogs: 54 cm. Bitches: 52 cm. A deviation of +/- 2 cm is within the standard”
- FCI states a tolerance around the figure.
Quoted from FCI standard n°102. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the Kleiner Munsterlander 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.
- Clumsy, big-boned conformation.
- Serious deviations from the correct proportions of body, neck and height and withers.
- More than 50 % of the nose flesh-coloured or spotted.
- Pointed muzzle. Dished nose bridge.
- Eyes too light.
- Croup too short
- Serious lack of depth of chest or too flat sided brisket. Barrel shaped brisket.
- Elbows heavily turning out or in.
- Steep pasterns.
- Strongly cow hocked or barrel legged, in stance as well as in movement.
- Splayed toes; flat feet.
- Clumsy movement.
- Smooth hairless ears or too long and curled fringes on the ears.
- Coat too curled.
- Deviation of the size limits between +/-2cm and +/- 4cm
Disqualifying faults
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
- Gross deviations. From the gender type, sexual malformations.
- Completely depigmented nose.
- All deviations from the correct scissor bite except the lack or excess of two P1.
- Split jaw or split lip.
- Bird’s eye.
- Ectropion, entropion, distichiasis, (double eyelash line).
- Pronounced dewlap.
- Distinct roach back,
- Pronounced swayback; crooked spine.
- Malformation of the ribcage, e.g. sternum cut off.
- Kinky tail, ring tail, other tail abnormalities e.g. too short or too long tail.
- Wholecoloured dogs.
- Deviation in height of more than +/-4 cm
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Kleiner Munsterlander in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Kleiner Munsterlander
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Kleiner Munsterlander 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 Kleiner Munsterlander 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.