Base colour
Whole coloured. • Brown. • Dead leaf colour. • Black
- Permissible: Small white markings
About the Pudelpointer
Origin: Germany
- Typical life span
- 11-14 years
- Size
- Large — from its typical weight
- Weight
- Male
- 25-32 kg
- Female
- 20-29 kg
- Height
- Male
- 56-69 cm
- Female
- 53-64 cm
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pointing Dogs
- Origin
- Germany
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What is a Pudelpointer?
Medium to large versatile hunting dog combining Poodle intelligence with Pointer field abilities, featuring a distinctive dense wiry coat and keen, energetic temperament bred for exceptional performance in both field and water
Pudelpointer history and origins
Developed in Germany in the late 19th century by Baron von Zedlitz, who crossed German Poodles (Pudel) with English Pointers to create the ideal versatile gundog for field and water work
Pudelpointer appearance and size
Males typically weigh 25-32 kg and stand 56-69 cm at the shoulder; females 20-29 kg and 53-64 cm.
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Versatile working gundog with all the aptitudes required for the breed, for all kinds of work in the fields, in the woods and in the water
- Behaviour and temperament
“Neither shy nor aggressive. Calm, self-controlled, even temperament with distinct hunting instinct, without game or gun shyness”
Quoted from FCI standard n°216. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Breed reference from The Dog API.
Characteristics
- Size
- Large
- Exercise needsRead from what the breed was bred to do, in the registry’s own words: “Versatile working gundog with all the aptitudes required for the breed, for all kinds of work in the fields, in the woods and in the water” 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
- —
- Amount of shedding
- 4 of 5
- Grooming needs
- 3 of 5
- Good with children
- —
- Cost to keep
- —
- Tolerates being alone
- —
- Intelligence
- —
- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the Pudelpointer
What you get with the Pudelpointer
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Versatile working gundog with all the aptitudes required for the breed, for all kinds of work in the fields, in the woods and in the water”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Neither shy nor aggressive”
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 · Pudelpointer
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
Close, flat lying, hard rough coat of medium length with dense undercoat.
Length of the top coat at the withers 4 – 6 cm.
The head shows a beard and a wood shaving like forelock.
The coat on the belly is close and dense.
By its harshness and density the coat should provide as good a protection as possible against weather and injuries as possible
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°216 — 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 standard penalises
What a judge marks the Pudelpointer 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.
- Over- or undershot bite, wry mouth; the canines being set too narrow; missing teeth other than P1.
- Entropion, ectropion of any degree.
- Upper eyelids without lashes, hairless eyelids.
- Short coat.
- Lack of beard.
- Any other colour or markings of different colour than specified in the standard
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Pudelpointer in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Pudelpointer
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Pudelpointer 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 Pudelpointer 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 Pudelpointer 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.