“Very his environment and his family, with exuberant temperament, lively, happy and playful. attached to”
Quoted from FCI standard n°195. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
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.
FCI standard · Italian Volpino
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Dense, very long and exceptionally straight and standing-off.
Of harsh texture with straight stiff guard hairs
must never be falling flat but be upstanding even when there is not of a lot of coat.
The body gives the impression of being wrapped up in a muff, particularly on the neck where the coat forms an abundant collar, but not like a mane.
The skull is covered with semi-long hairs that hide the base of the ears.
Hair is short on the muzzle.
On the ears, the hair is very fine and smooth.
The tail is covered with very long hair.
On the backside of the hindquarters, the coat forms trousers
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.
Base colour
Self-colour white, red or black
Shortened from FCI standard n°195 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
What a judge marks the Italian Volpino 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.
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Italian Volpino in general; any individual animal can differ.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Italian Volpino 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.
This is where Italian Volpino 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.
No Italian Volpino 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.
