“Lively and agile, self-confident and with sufficient perseverance and stamina, good natured and alert, however not noisy. The breed is faithful, easy-going and friendly. Outside the hunting season the dog is expected to find and kill vermin, hence he needs to be keen, swift and tough. He is a true sporting dog, being attentive and energetic and having a zest for working and with a cheerful character”
Quoted from FCI standard n°314. 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 · Nederlandse Kooikerhondje
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged preferred and permissible.
Of medium length, slightly wavy or straight and close lying.
Soft hair.
Well-developed undercoat.
Front legs should have moderate feathering reaching to the pastern joints.
Hind legs should have fairly long feathered breeches
no feathering below the hock joints.
The coat on the head, the front part of the legs and the feet should be short.
Sufficiently feathered on the underside of the tail.
Longer hair on throat and forechest.
Earrings (long feathered black hairtips) are highly desirable
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
A clearly visible blaze running down to the nose
Shortened from FCI standard n°314 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
Quoted from FCI standard n°314. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What a judge marks the Nederlandse Kooikerhondje 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 Nederlandse Kooikerhondje in general; any individual animal can differ.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Nederlandse Kooikerhondje 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 Nederlandse Kooikerhondje 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 Nederlandse Kooikerhondje 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.
