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Liver roan (right) with liver patches, and ticked with liver patches (left) Solid brown. The German Shorthaired Pointer is of medium size: dogs stand some 62–66 cm at the withers, bitches some 3 or 4 cm less. [1] The coat is dense, short and rough-textured. It may be either brown or black, in any of three patterns: the solid-coloured, either ...
The German Wirehaired Pointer traces its origins back to 1880. The breed originated in Germany, where Baron Sigismund von Zedlitz und Neukirch was a leading breeder, [1] wanting to create a versatile hunting dog that would work closely with either one person or a small party of persons hunting on foot in varied terrain; from the mountainous regions of the Alps, to dense forests, to more open ...
The breed usually weighs between 20 and 34 kilograms (45 and 75 lb), with dogs weighing 25 to 34 kilograms (55 to 75 lb) and bitches 20 to 29 kilograms (45 to 65 lb). [ 7 ] [ 14 ] The Pointer has a very distinctive head with a slightly dished face and elevated nose, a raised brow, and wide nostrils, their ears are hanging and lie close to the ...
The Bluetick Coonhound gets its "blue" coloring from black ticking on a white background, which gives the impression of a navy blue color. This ticking covers the body and can be interspersed with variously-shaped black spots on the back, ears and sides. Preference runs to more blue than black on the body.
Like most of the longhaired pointing breeds, the breed is descended from the point spaniel. One of the oldest of the "versatile breeds", it is but one of a few that disallow black as a color. [4] The black-and-white Large Munsterlander was split off from this breed after the black-and-white coloration was removed from the breed standard. [3] [5]
The German Pinscher or Deutscher Pinscher is a German breed of terrier in the Pinscher and Schnauzer group. [3] [1]: 218 It shares common origins with the Schnauzer, of which it is essentially a short-haired equivalent. [4] It is seen in two colours, either black-and-tan or self-coloured red, this varying from deer-red to a dark reddish brown. [2]
White feet and chests were also common. [2] The breed was created to be a ratter in homes, working to remove rodents from kitchens, and also granaries and stables. [ 7 ] Early breeders crossed the various schnauzers and pinschers with the goal to create a mouser who also was a good companion dog . [ 2 ]
He found only mixed breed dogs, which had some characteristics of the Braque du Bourbonnais (size, shape of the head, short tail). After some more or less inbred litters, he registered his first Bourbonnais on the LOF (under Titre Initial procedure) in 1973, 1974, and 1975; from then, several breeders joined him, who, from those dogs, created ...