- Permissible: All colours
- Border of the eyelids and nose black or dark
- when the colour of the coat is lighter, i.e. blue or beige, the nose is in relation blue or beige
About the Polish Greyhound
Origin: PolandPolish Greyhound
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Sighthounds
- Origin
- Poland
- Also called
- Lebrel Polaco
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Hunting dog not only for hare, fox, roe-deer and bustard, but also for the wolf
- Behaviour and temperament
“The Polish Greyhound is self- assured, confident, reserved and brave. When hunting he is fast, very skilful and untiring. In action, he reacts quickly and brutally”
Quoted from FCI standard n°333. 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: “Hunting dog not only for hare, fox, roe-deer and bustard, but also for the wolf” 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 Polish Greyhound
What you get with the Polish Greyhound
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Hunting dog not only for hare, fox, roe-deer and bustard, but also for the wolf”
- The standard describes the breed as: “The Polish Greyhound is self- assured, confident, reserved and brave”
What you are taking on
- High grooming needs — the standard’s own description is “At the buttock and along the whole underside of the tail the hair is longest but still…”
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 · Polish Greyhound
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
Coat springy to the touch, rather harsh, not « wired-haired » but not silky either.
Of variable lengths over all the body.
On the withers the coat may be longer, shorter on the sides
it is on the sternum and the legs where it is the shortest.
The hair on the abdomen is more delicate, more sparse.
At the buttock and along the whole underside of the tail the hair is longest but still also harsh, forming modest breeches and a 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°333 — 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
- “The ideal size for the female is of 68 - 75 cm at the withers, for the male is of 70 - 80 cm at the withers. Subjects bigger than the ideal size are permitted, with the condition that the typical morphology is maintained. A slightly smaller size than that given in the standard is, however, not an eliminating fault if, apart from that, the hound does not show any other faults”
- FCI names a size at which a dog is disqualified.
Quoted from FCI standard n°333. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the Polish Greyhound 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.
- Small eyes, lid aperture triangular
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Polish Greyhound in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Polish Greyhound
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Polish Greyhound 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 Polish Greyhound 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 Polish Greyhound 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.