- Red or black and tan (may also be tricolour).
- Undesirable: Red variety: Red, deer red or red-fawn, too pale fawn
- Black and Tan variety: Black main coat or saddle with red usually not clearly defined markings on legs, belly and head.
- Permissible: Marking above eyes (Vieräugl)
- White markings (Apply to both colour varieties): Stripe on neck, patch on fore or back chest and feet and legs.
- Undesirable: Lack of white markings not to be counted as a fault
About the Tyrolean Hound
Origin: Austria
- Typical life span
- 12-14 years
- Size
- Medium — from its typical weight
- Weight
- 15-22 kg
- Height
- Male
- 44-50 cm
- Female
- 42-48 cm
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Scent hounds and related breeds
- Origin
- Austria
- Also called
- Sabueso del Tirol
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What is a Tyrolean Hound?
Medium-sized, athletic scent hound with a strong, sinewy build and dense double coat, developed for endurance and tracking ability in mountainous terrain
Tyrolean Hound history and origins
Descended from Celtic Hounds, systematically bred in the Tyrol region starting around 1860 for hunting hare, fox, and larger game in mountainous terrain. Emperor Maximilian I used these hounds as early as the 1500s. Officially recognized in 1896 by the FCI
Tyrolean Hound appearance and size
Males typically stand 44-50 cm at the shoulder and females 42-48 cm.
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- The Tyrolean Hound is the ideal working dog for the hunter in wood and mountains. It is used as scenthound for hunting on its own hare and fox while giving tongue as well as for tracking all kinds of wounded games
- Behaviour and temperament
“Steady, passionate hunting hound with fine scenting ability. Works independently and hunts with endurance, whereby giving tongue clearly and following scent firmly with a good sense of direction”
Quoted from FCI standard n°68. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Breed reference from The Dog API.
Characteristics
- Size
- Medium
- Exercise needsRead from what the breed was bred to do, in the registry’s own words: “The Tyrolean Hound is the ideal working dog for the hunter in wood and mountains. It is used as scenthound for hunting on its own hare and fox while giving tongue as well as for tracking all kinds of wounded games” 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
- —
- Good with children
- —
- Cost to keep
- —
- Tolerates being alone
- —
- Intelligence
- —
- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the Tyrolean Hound
What you get with the Tyrolean Hound
- Purpose stated in the standard: “The Tyrolean Hound is the ideal working dog for the hunter in wood and mountains”
- The standard describes the breed as: “Steady, passionate hunting hound with fine scenting ability”
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 · Tyrolean Hound
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible and undesirable.
Coat
Thick double coat, undercoat coarse rather than fine.
Hairy belly.
Buttocks well feathered.
Tail well coated with dense brush
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°68 — 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 Tyrolean Hound 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.
- Nose brown.
- Over or undershot bite.
- Absence of more than two premolars 1 or 2.
- Distinctly pied colouring.
- Liver colour
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Tyrolean Hound in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Tyrolean Hound
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Tyrolean Hound 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 Tyrolean Hound 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.