- The colour is black, dark-brown or greyish-black, with yellow-red clearly defined markings at the eyebrows, muzzle, chest, the legs and at the base of the tail.
- Permissible: Light and dark mask
- Permissible: Small white markings on chest and toes
About the German Hunting Terrier
Origin: GermanyGerman Hunting Terrier
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Terriers
- Origin
- Germany
- Also called
- Terrier Cazador Aleman
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Versatile hunting dog, suited in particular for the hunt under the ground and as a flushing dog
- Behaviour and temperament
“Courageous and hard, takes pleasure in work, enduring, vital, full of temperament, reliable, sociable and trainable, neither shy nor aggressive”
Quoted from FCI standard n°103. 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 hunting dog, suited in particular for the hunt under the ground and as a flushing 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
- 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 German Hunting Terrier
What you get with the German Hunting Terrier
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Versatile hunting dog, suited in particular for the hunt under the ground and as a flushing dog”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Courageous and hard, takes pleasure in work, enduring, vital, full of temperament, reliable, sociable and trainable,…”
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 · German Hunting Terrier
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
Plain, dense
hard rough hair or coarse smooth hair
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°103 — 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 German Hunting Terrier 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.
- Narrow skull, narrow and also pointed muzzle.
- Falling away under-jaw, narrow jaws.
- Weak bite, any slight irregularity in the placing of the incisors.
- Light, too big or protruding eyes.
- Erected, flying, too small, too low set or heavy ears.
- Steep forequarters.
- Soft or roached back, too short back.
- Short breastbone.
- Too narrow or too wide in front.
- Steep hindquarters, overbuilt.
- Elbows clearly turned in or out.
- Too narrow or too wide in forefeet; cow-hocked, bow-legged or narrow hocks in stance as well as in movement.
- Stilted or tripping gait.
- Splayed feet, cat feet, hare feet.
- Tail inclining over the back, tail set too low or hanging.
- Short, woolly, open or thin hair, bald at the belly or at the inner sides of the thighs
Disqualifying faults
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
- Untypical dogs.
- Over- and undershot bite, wry mouth, pincer and partial pincer bite, cross-bite, irregularly placed teeth in the upper and/or lower row of teeth, missing teeth except for M3.
- Incorrect pigmentation.
- Entropion and ectropion, eyes of different colour, blue or spotted eyes.
- Any departure of the described coat colour.
- Over- and undersized
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the German Hunting Terrier in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a German Hunting Terrier
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the German Hunting Terrier 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 German Hunting Terrier 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 German Hunting Terrier 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.