GRIFFONS VENDEENS
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COUNTRY: France
WEIGHT: 66-77 pounds
HEIGHT: at least 23.5 inches, larger
preferred
COAT: hard and rough; never soft
COLOUR: Orange, gray, tawny, or black/tan, usually as spots on white
background
OTHER NAMES: Large Vendeen Griffon
REGISTRY: FCI
GROUP: Hound
Race of French origin, of long hair, equipped with an impetuous and sometimes ardent character, with fine and subtle sense of smell and excellent voice, is used for the greater hunting to horse
.Actually hunting it demonstrates great passion, value and intelligence until the point of which, frequently, almost always is preferred it to other races of sign although lacks the resistance necessary to be able to maintain, throughout everything a hunting game, its great initial speed.
It is possible to define to the Briquet Vendéen like a copy, in reduced format, of the Grand Griffon Vendéen of which it conserves almost inalteradas his anatomical characteristics as much as his qualities and aptitudes.
The stained clear layer of gray, arrives to him, according to the famous French dog breeder Him Coulteux, from the great dog of San Luis, whereas its excellent sense of smell could derive from the dog of Bresse.
Today, the two vandeanas races - the Grand Griffon and the Briquet Griffon - again enjoy in France certain interest thanks mainly, to the efforts of the enthusiastic well-known, breeder and judge, Hubert Dezamy that, in the last years, has contributed of remarkable way to its diffusion, saving in this way to a race that was being extinguished.
