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Key facts
- Dogbreed.name
- Otterhound
- Dogbreed.image
- Two_otterhounds.jpg
- Dogbreed.image_caption
- Otterhounds
- Dogbreed.country
- England
- Dogbreed.coat
- Double, with a soft undercoat and longer harsher outer coat. Both coats are slightly oily. Medium length and moderately curly.
- Dogbreed.colour
- Whole coloured, grizzle, sandy, red, wheaten, blue; in combination with slight white markings on extremities. White in combination with slight lemon, blue or badger pied markings. Black and tan, blue and tan, black and cream, occasional liver, tan and liver, tan and white.
- Dogbreed.kc_name
- The Kennel Club
- Dogbreed.kc_std
- https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/breed-standards/hound/otterhound/
- Dogbreed.fcistd
- http://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/294g06-en.pdf
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- Image
- Two otterhounds.jpg
- Height
- 61
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- Otterhound
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- Otterhound
- catalog code
- 294
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10 sectionsContents
- Ancestry
- Appearance
- Coat colours
- Hunting
- Health
- Endangered breed
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The Otterhound is an English dog breed. It is a scent hound and is currently recognised by the Kennel Club as a Vulnerable Native Breed with around 600 animals worldwide.
==Ancestry== The first recorded Otterhounds known to resemble the current breed are in the North-West of England in the first half of the 19th century – for example, the Hawkstone Otter Hunt and Squire Lomax's Otterhounds. In the second half of the 19th century, French Griffons were outcrossed, including one-eighth Wolf cross/Griffon Vendéen from the Comte de Canteleu in Normandy. In the early 20th century the Griffon Nivernais was crossed into the breed, and one particular dog, Boatman, a Grand Griffon Vendéen/Bloodhound cross, became an ancestor for several kennels.