- Various shades of russet gold and dark sandy gold (semmelgelb).
- The leathers may be a little darker, otherwise uniform in colour.
- Undesirable: Red, brownish or lightened colour
- A little white patch on the chest or at the throat, not more than 5 cm in diameter, as well as white markings on the toes are not considered faulty.
- The colour of the lips and the eyerims corresponds to the colour of the nose
About the Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla
Origin: HungaryHungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Pointing Dogs
- Origin
- Hungary
- Also called
- Braco Hungaro de Pelo Corto
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- A versatile gun dog that must be able to work in the field, forest and water, having the following typical qualities: an excellent nose, firmness on the point, excellent retrieves and determination to remain on the scent even when swimming, which he manifestly enjoys. He copes with difficult terrain as well as extreme weather conditions. As he is intended to be an efficient hunting dog, gun and game shyness, unwillingness to point and retrieve, as well as a dislike of water are undesirable. Because of his easy going nature and his adaptability, he can easily be kept as a companion dog in the house
- Behaviour and temperament
“Lively, evenly tempered, to be trained easily. His outstanding willingness to keep contact with his master while working is one of his essential qualities. He cannot bear rough treatment and must be neither aggressive nor shy. friendly,”
Quoted from FCI standard n°57. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Characteristics
- Size
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- Exercise needs
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- Easy to train
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- Amount of shedding
- 1 of 5
- Grooming needs
- 2 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 Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla
What you get with the Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla
- Purpose stated in the standard: “A versatile gun dog that must be able to work in the field, forest and water, having the following typical qualities: an excellent nose, firmness on…”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Lively, evenly tempered, to be trained easily”
- Low grooming needs, fitting for a busy owner — the coat is “Short and dense, should be coarse and hard at the touch.”
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 · Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged undesirable.
Coat
Short and dense, should be coarse and hard at the touch.
On the head and the leathers, it should be thinner, silkier and shorter.
The hair underneath the tail should be slightly, but not noticeably, longer.
It should cover all of the body
the underside of the belly is a little lighter coated.
No undercoat
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°57 — 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 Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla 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.
- Distinct deviations from the characteristics of the breed.
- Strong deviation from the sexual characteristics.
- Atypical head.
- Spotted(butterfly) nose
- Pendulous or dribbling flews.
- Under- or overshot mouth. Wry mouth, including all intermediate forms.
- One or more missing incisors and/or canine and/or premolars 2-4 and/or molars 1-2; more than two missing PM1; the M3 are disregarded. Not visible teeth are assessed as missing ones. Supernumerary teeth not in line with the o-others.
- Cleft palate, harelip.
- Light yellow eyes. Very loose eyelids; ectropion, entropion. Distichiasis (double row of eyelashes).
- Pronounced dewlap.
- Dewclaws.
- Very faulty movement.
- Atypical coat.
- Dark brown or pale yellow colour. Parti-coloured, not uniformly coloured. White chest patch larger than 5 cm.
- White feet.
- Lacking pigmentation either on the skin or on the lips and eyerims.
- Deviation of more than 2 cm from the above, mentioned heights at withers
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla 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 Hungarian Short Haired Pointer Vizsla 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.