Comparison: English Foxhound and Great Anglo-French White and Black Hound

English Foxhound and Great Anglo-French White and Black Hound are marked as similar in our database. The table compares only the data we have on the breeds.

English Foxhound
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English FoxhoundGreat Anglo-French White and Black Hound
FCI group6. Scent hounds and related breeds6. Scent hounds and related breeds
Country of originUnited KingdomFrance
CategoryLargeLarge
Height at withers58–64 cm62–72 cm
Recognition features
  • Well balanced, powerful, clean-cut dog about 58–64 cm tall
  • Short, dense, weatherproof coat
  • Friendly, not aggressive, with great stamina
  • Obligatory white and black with a black mantle or widely spread black markings
  • Pale tan dot above each eye and pale tan on the cheeks
  • Big, powerful, resistant dog with strong bone
CoatShort, dense, weatherproof coat; any recognised hound colour.Short, quite strong and dense coat; white with black mantle and widely spread black markings.
PurposePack hound for the mounted hunt.Large pack hound for big game, forming the packs of twenty or more deer hunts and one stag hunt.

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