Breed Standards
Fédération Cynologique Internationale
NAME
Ogar Polski
Polish Hound
ORIGIN
Poland.
PUBLISHED
03.11.2014.
UTILISATION
Hound.
CLASSIFICATION
Group 6 - Mastiff
,Section 1 : Scenthounds
,1.2 Medium-sized Hounds
,With working trial
TRANSLATION
Mrs Peggy Davis.
BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY
GENERAL APPEARANCE
Medium size dog, of strong and compact build, powerful bone-structure and quite massive with legs in proportion. The whole outline is that of power and endurance rather than speed. The voice on the trail is sonorous and pure, of changeable medium pitch, generally higher pitched in the female.
IMPORTANT PROPORTIONS
Skull as long as the muzzle.
HEAD
Rather heavy, nobly chiselled. In profile looks like a medium length rectangle.
NECK
Remarkably thick at point of insertion with the body, powerful, muscled, of medium length. Dewlap is loose and very richly folded.
BODY
Long, broad and muscled.
Not sloping, broad.
Thoracic cage is ample, wide and deep in proportion. The sternal region descends to the elbows. Ribs well sprung, long like the whole rib cage, closer to the vertical position than in other breeds.
Belly capacious, broad, nearly as deep as the chest. Abdomen not too tucked up. The flank is not hollow, well filled, rounded with a possible hollow below the last ribs.
TAIL
Rather low set, thick, covered with long hair in its lower part, hangs below the hock, slightly drooping; from half the length of the leg, slightly curved. In normal movement slightly raised but not rolled up. In action, slightly raised, but not above the horizontal.
LIMBS
GAIT / MOVEMENT
Normally moves at a slow and heavy short trot. When hunting, he quarters and chases at a heavy gallop.
COAT
Medium length hair, thick, with a dense undercoat, a little longer on the back, at the back of the hindquarters and on the lower part of the tail.
Head and ears, except the lateral sides of the skull, of tan colour; the ears a little darker than the rest. The legs, sternal region and thighs also tan. Body black or dark grey almost black; in ancient Polish hunting language it was called « podzary » (burnt). The tan colour, essentially fawn, has various intensities of that tone up to cinnamon, very much appreciated in the Polish Hound. The white hairs, admitted in shape of a star, forming a blaze reaching to the muzzle, on the chest, the extremities of the legs and of the tail. The black may form a mantle which extends as far as on the head. Distinct tan spots above the eyes. Black which extends as far as the muzzle of the Polish Hound is a case for disqualification.
SIZE
Dogs 56-65 cm,
Bitches 55-60 cm.
Dogs 25-32 kg,
Bitches 20-26 kg.
FAULTS
Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog.
Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.
Anatomical Features
N.B.: Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.