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About the Griffon Nivernais

Origin: France
Typical life span
10-14 years
Size
Medium — from its typical weight
Weight
Male
22-25 kg
Female
20-23 kg
Height
Male
55-61 cm
Female
52-60 cm
FCI status
Reconhecida pela FCI
FCI group
Scent hounds and related breeds
Origin
France
Also called
Grifon del Nivernais
Known hereditary risks
Not researched yet

About

What is a Griffon Nivernais?

Medium-sized French scent hound with a robust build, rough shaggy coat, and rugged appearance. Known for exceptional hunting ability in difficult terrain and strong work-focused instincts.

Griffon Nivernais history and origins

Ancient French scent hound from the Nivernais region, originally used by medieval French nobility for hunting wolf and wild boar. Nearly extinct after World War II and the French Revolution, but revived in the 19th century through careful breeding using Grand Griffon Vendéen, Otterhound, and local stock.

Griffon Nivernais appearance and size

Males typically weigh 22-25 kg and stand 55-61 cm at the shoulder; females 20-23 kg and 52-60 cm.

O que diz o padrão da raça

Criado para
Scent hound used mainly for shooting of wild boar, generally in a pack but also individually
Comportamento e temperamento
Behaviour: Very good nose, piercing, and particularly enjoying difficult terrains and thickets. Temperament: Excellent at approaching and very good hunter, it’s courageous when holding firm without being reckless. Its courage and initiative allow it to be used successfully in small packs for hunting wild boar. Although it can easily be taught hunting that game, it shows itself occasionally to be obstinate and independent, and its master should know how to make it obey starting at its youngest age

Quoted from FCI standard n°17. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Referência da raça de The Dog API.

Características

Tamanho
Medium
Necessidade de exercício
4 of 5
Facilidade de treino
Queda de pelo
Cuidados com o pelo
4 of 5
Convivência com crianças
Custo de manutenção
Tolera ficar sozinho
Inteligência
Saúde da raça
Not researched yet

Pros & cons

Prós e contras da raça Griffon Nivernais

O que ganha com a raça Griffon Nivernais

  • Função declarada no padrão: «Scent hound used mainly for shooting of wild boar, generally in a pack but also individually»
  • O padrão descreve a raça assim: «Behaviour: Very good nose, piercing, and particularly enjoying difficult terrains and thickets»

O que tem de assumir

  • Exige muitos cuidados com o pelo — a descrição do próprio padrão é «Long, shaggy, and bushy, strong enough and rough (in any case neither woolly nor curly).»

Retirado de fontes e não escrito como opinião — investigação de saúde citada, o padrão do próprio registo, e estudos de longevidade revistos por pares. Padrão da raça, FCI. Os animais de um criador podem diferir de tudo isto, e uma coluna vazia significa que não temos nada desse lado, não que não haja nada a dizer.

Characteristics

Padrão da FCI · Griffon Nivernais

Pelo e cor

Tal como o padrão da FCI o estabelece. Cada linha abaixo está nas palavras do próprio padrão, etiquetada com permissible.

Coat

Long, shaggy, and bushy, strong enough and rough (in any case neither woolly nor curly).

The belly and the inside of the thighs shouldn’t be hairless.

The well pronounced eyebrows shouldn’t cover the eye.

A slight beard on the chin and the ear covered enough in hair

Cor

  • Preferred
  • Permissible
  • Undesirable
  • Disqualifying

«Preferred», «permissible», «undesirable» e «disqualifying» — preferida, admissível, indesejável e desqualificante — são as palavras da própria FCI sobre a raça, e ficam em inglês porque é assim que constam do padrão. Descrevem o que o padrão exige — não são uma avaliação de nenhum cão em concreto, nem nossa.

  • Always darkened, i.e., the hair always has the ends darker than the base (black overlay).
  • Fawn colouring can be more or less darkened but never orange.
  • The darkened end can take on a blue aspect.
  • According to the amount of darkening of the extremity of the hair, the coat is darker or lighter.
  • Permissible: The presence of white hair scattered in more or less great proportion in the coat and gives rise to shades going from light grey, including wild boar grey
  • The coat is most often marked with tan in the eyebrows, the cheeks, breast, the ends of the limbs, and under the tail.
  • That characteristic, very visible on the pup, often diminishes with age.
  • The coat is characterised by the basic colour, the spreading of black- overlaid hair, and possible association with sparse white hair.
  • One hence describes for example the “fawn very slightly overlaid with black” (hare coat), the “sand overlaid with black” (wolf grey), and the “fawn overlaid with blue” (blue grey).
  • Permissible: A white spot on the chest

Resumido de FCI standard n°17 — cada etiqueta está nas palavras do próprio padrão, com o veredito passado para a etiqueta ao lado. Leia a cláusula completa na fonte.

O que diz o padrão da raça

Tamanho
Height at withers: Male: from 55 to 62 cm. from 53 to 60 cm. Female: With a tolerance of 1 cm more or less
A FCI indica uma tolerância em torno do valor.

Quoted from FCI standard n°17. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Informação ao nível da raça, de The Dog API. Descreve a raça Griffon Nivernais em geral; qualquer animal em concreto pode ser diferente.

Health guide

What to ask for in a Griffon Nivernais

No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Griffon Nivernais 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.

Puppies

No puppies listed right now

No Griffon Nivernais 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.

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