German Longhaired Pointer (Deutsch Langhaar): The India Guide

What the German Longhaired Pointer actually is

The German Longhaired Pointer is FCI Standard No. 117, a German gundog registered as Deutsch Langhaar, and it is a separate breed from the German Shorthaired Pointer, the German Wirehaired Pointer and the German Roughhaired Pointer. Its own standard files it in Group 7 Pointing Dogs, Section 1.2 Continental pointing dogs of the Spaniel type, with working trial.

Start with the number, because the name is the problem. Germany has four separate FCI pointing breeds separated mainly by coat, and each holds its own standard: Kurzhaar at 119, Langhaar at 117, Drahthaar at 98 and Stichelhaar at 232 Federation Cynologique Internationale Federation Cynologique Internationale. Nothing on a page that says only 'German pointer' tells you which of the four you are reading about, and the ranking set for this term does not print a standard number at all.

The section matters as much as the number. The Kurzhaar and the Stichelhaar both sit in Section 1.1, the Braque type. The Langhaar sits in Section 1.2, the Spaniel type, which is the FCI saying in its own filing system that this dog is built and works more like a setter or a spaniel than like a braque. The British breed club puts the same point in working language, placing the breed in the Hunt Point Retrieve group of gundogs.

What the breed standard actually specifies

The standard is short and unusually specific about coat. It asks for hair 3 to 5 cm long on the back and sides of the body, close fitting, longer on the underside of the neck, chest and belly, and much shorter on the head, though still longer than on a short-haired German pointing dog. The body hair must be sleek, firm, smooth or slightly wavy, close fitting and dense with good undercoat. The ears are wavy and feathered, the tail carries a good plume coated to the tip, and too much feathering is expressly not desired.

A coat-length figure the whole internet gets wrong

Every English page describing this breed gives the coat as about 3.5 cm, and the FCI standard says 3 to 5 cm. The two are not the same claim, and the collapse is traceable. The VDH's own German-language breed lexicon prints 'Haar 3,5 cm lang', where the standard's range has become a single decimal number, one hyphen having turned into a comma. English Wikipedia then reports 'about 3.5cm long on the body' and cites that lexicon page. A range of 3 to 5 cm and a point value of 3.5 cm describe different dogs at the top end, and the standard is the document that decides.

The same lexicon page prints only the ideal heights, 63 to 66 cm for males and 60 to 63 cm for females, and not the permitted ranges of 60 to 70 cm and 58 to 66 cm Federation Cynologique Internationale. Read one page and you would think a 68 cm male was oversized. He is inside the standard.

History and origins, dated to the documents

The FCI standard credits the breed to a mix of bird dog, hawk dog and water dog bloodlines together with Bracken, the German scenthounds, and says pure breeding has been carried out since 1879, with Baron von Schorlemer writing the first standard in 1897. The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband repeats the 1879 date and adds that the breed characteristics were first fixed at a show of the Verein zur Veredelung der Hunderassen in Hannover. The FCI accepted the breed definitively in 1954.

Build follows from the job. The standard's general appearance clause is four words and a qualifier: strong, muscular, low set, with flowing lines, and it adds that smaller dogs must have plenty of substance while too massive and thereby clumsy dogs are not desired. A muscular dog of about 30 kg that still moves with ground-covering drive is the target, not a heavy one.

One inherited detail still shows. The standard permits that fawn markings may occasionally appear as a very old throw-back to the hounds, which is the 1879 scenthound base surfacing in a modern litter rather than a fault to panic about.

Which registries recognise the breed, and what that means in India

The German Longhaired Pointer is recognised by the FCI as standard 117, by the Royal Kennel Club in the Gundog group, and by the American Kennel Club only in its Foundation Stock Service, where it has been recorded since May 2010. India has no separate breed list to check, so FCI nomenclature is the practical answer to the Indian question.

Recognition is not one status, it is several, and they say different things. The FCI accepted the breed definitively in 1954 and publishes standard 117 today Wikipedia, 'German Longhaired Pointer'. The Royal Kennel Club lists it under Breeds A to Z in the Gundog group, with its own health, breeding-restrictions and Breed Watch sections. The AKC has it in the Foundation Stock Service, recorded since May 2010, with a Sporting Group designation assigned, which is the stage before full recognition and not the same thing.

The AKC page is worth reading carefully because it is the top result for the term in India and it describes the breed's colour registry as a single entry, Brown & White, code 063, while the FCI standard lists six colour patterns including self brown, dark roan, pale roan and mottled Federation Cynologique Internationale. That is a registry's administrative colour list, not a description of the breed, and it is easy to misread as one.

The Indian recognition question, answered the only way it can be

Ask whether the Kennel Club of India recognises this breed and the honest answer is that the question cannot be asked directly. The KCI publishes no per-breed register a reader can query, so a search there returns nothing for this breed and nothing for any control breed either, which is a broken instrument rather than a finding. The route that does work is the FCI members register, which prints India's entry as 'INDIA ( Full member )' with the Kennel Club of India at Nr 28, AA Block, First Street, Anna Nagar, Chennai 600 040 Federation Cynologique Internationale. Because the KCI issues pedigrees against FCI nomenclature, a breed holding an FCI standard number has a pedigree route into India in principle. In practice, see the price section: no dog has to exist here for that to be true on paper.

The UKC recognised the breed as the German Long Haired Pointer in 2006 and files it in its Gun Dog Group. One detail of the Royal Kennel Club's listing is worth noticing: its entry sits on the Gundog A to Z without the Imp suffix the RKC attaches to imported-register breeds such as the Portuguese Pointer (Imp) and the Slovakian Rough Haired Pointer (Imp), so this is a fully established British breed rather than a newly imported one.

All four numbers in that table were confirmed from the FCI's own register rather than assumed. The nomenclature entry for this breed prints 'DEUTSCH LANGHAAR ( 117 )' and 'Group : n°7 - Pointing Dogs' on its own face, and the Drahthaar's entry prints 'DEUTSCH DRAHTHAAR ( 98 )' with the English title GERMAN WIRE-HAIRED POINTING DOG Federation Cynologique Internationale. The Kurzhaar's 119 and the Stichelhaar's 232 were taken from the standard PDFs themselves, each checked against the breed name printed on its title page.

That check is not optional on this site. On fci.be the trailing number decides which document you are served and the breed name in the URL is discarded, so a guessed path returns a complete, correct, plausible standard for a different dog with nothing that looks wrong. One practical trap surfaced here too: the Drahthaar's standard PDF is served at the zero-padded path 098g07 and returns HTTP 404 at 98g07, which is the kind of thing that turns into 'the document does not exist' in a hurry.

Why the confusion is a practical problem, not a pedantic one

A buyer who cannot tell the four apart cannot check anything. The four breeds have different coats, different sections, different clubs, different hip rules and, as the table shows, populations that differ by a factor of 147 between the Drahthaar and the Stichelhaar in a single year. Health data does not transfer between them. Neither does a price, a lifespan or a grooming routine. If a seller, a vet or a page cannot name the standard number, treat everything that follows as unverified.

German Longhaired Pointer price in India, and why Bonbeno publishes no number

There is no German Longhaired Pointer price in India, because there is no Indian market for the breed to have a price in. Bonbeno searched for one, proved the search works with a control that returned ten live Indian listings for another breed, and found no readable Indian offer of a Langhaar puppy. So this page carries no rupee figure for this breed at all.

That is the finding, and it is more useful than a number. A price band invented for a breed nobody sells here would be worse than silence, because it would be quoted back as fact.

How the absence was proved, with the control shown

A search restricted to India results for this breed's name plus price, sale and breeder terms returned ten results and not one of them was an Indian offer of a puppy. What came back instead was a German-language Facebook group post advertising Deutsch Langhaar Welpen, a US page for German Shorthaired Pointer puppies in South Carolina, an Etsy market page for pointer-themed mugs, a UK pets4homes advert, a European delivery service shipping pedigree puppies worldwide, a breed-index page on puppyfinder, the AKC and Royal Kennel Club home pages, and one Indian listing address on PetzLover.

The same search, in the same session, with the same tool and the same India setting, run for 'labrador retriever puppy price in india', returned ten genuine Indian commercial pages with rupee figures on them, including Mr n Mrs Pet quoting INR 30,000 to 60,000 for basic quality and INR 60,000 to 90,000 for a KCI-registered dog. The instrument works. The zero is real.

The single Indian address is the one thing this page will not draw a conclusion from. PetzLover's German Longhaired Pointer listing path was fetched twice and returned HTTP 403 behind a CAPTCHA challenge headed 'PetzLover - Verify You Are Human';. A page that will not open is not a source. Bonbeno cannot say the listing is real and cannot say it is a shell, so it says neither.

The law that stops a supply chain forming

Even if demand appeared, the import route is closed to it. Live dogs sit at ITC(HS) 01061900 as a Restricted import under DGFT Trade Notice 22/2022-23, which permits entry only for a pet accompanying its owner with a valid pet book in the importer's name, for research with a CPCSEA recommendation, or for Defence and Police use, and which states that applications for trading or breeding purposes shall be duly rejected. Any dog that does arrive passes through Animal Quarantine and Certification Services inspection.

So the only lawful way a German Longhaired Pointer reaches India is inside somebody's relocation, one dog at a time, and that dog cannot legally become the founder of an Indian breeding line. Between the DGFT restriction and the total absence of Indian stock, no commercial supply chain can form, and that is why there is nothing to price.

What a Langhaar costs where it exists

Bonbeno will not convert a German price into rupees and print it as an Indian price, because that is exactly the mechanism that fills Indian breed pages with fictional numbers. What can be said is where the dogs are. The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband registered 382 puppies in Germany in 2025, and its published stud-dog register held 165 approved males as at 1 January 2026 across sixteen regional groups, one of them in North America. Those puppies go to people who intend to hunt with them, because the club's own rules make a working test a precondition of breeding at all.

If you are comparing budgets, use another breed's Indian price as the anchor and be honest that it is another breed's. A large gundog in India is a INR 30,000 to 1,20,000 purchase and a five-figure annual running cost, and that is the Labrador number, not this one.

Monthly cost of ownership, bounded honestly

Bonbeno cannot give you a monthly cost of ownership for a German Longhaired Pointer in India, because the inputs that would make such a figure real do not exist here. What this section gives instead is the cost structure, so you can price it against quotes you collect yourself in your own city.

The reason is not laziness. A monthly figure needs Indian food prices for a 30 kg working dog, Indian vet fees for this breed's specific screening, and Indian grooming rates for a 3 to 5 cm feathered coat in monsoon humidity. Two of those three can be sourced locally for any large dog. The third, breed-specific screening, has no Indian provider at all, because no Indian veterinary practice sees this breed.

The cost structure, item by item

The two lines Indian owners underestimate

Ears are the first. This is a pendulous-eared breed and pendulous ears carry measurably higher otitis externa risk than erect ones, which is a cost you pay in consults, cytology and medication rather than in food. In India that cost is seasonal and the season is not the same everywhere, which the climate section covers with two Indian studies that disagree.

Transport is the second. A dog bred to quarter open ground for hours will not be satisfied by a lap of a residential colony, so the real cost of keeping one in Bengaluru or Pune includes getting it somewhere it can run, several times a week, forever. That line does not appear on any breed page and it is often the largest one.

The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband also makes clear that the club's own health regime is paid for by the owner, not the club: the cataract monitoring order states plainly that the cost of the examination is borne by the owner. An Indian owner importing this breed inherits that obligation without the German infrastructure that makes it cheap.

Suitability for the Indian climate, and heat tolerance rated 2 of 5

The German Longhaired Pointer is poorly suited to most of India, and the cleanest way to show it is wet bulb temperature. Chennai's coolest month is 5.62 degrees Celsius hotter on wet bulb than the hottest month in Hannover, where this breed's characteristics were first fixed. That gap is the whole argument, and it does not close in winter.

This is not a heat-tolerant breed, and the standard says so indirectly by describing what the coat is for. Air temperature alone flatters India and understates the problem. Hannover reaches 35.23 degrees Celsius in July on the long-term maximum, which is a real summer, and a reader could reasonably conclude the breed handles heat. It does not follow, because the dog's cooling system runs on evaporation, and evaporation is governed by wet bulb temperature, not by the thermometer.

Read the last column first. Every Indian city on that list runs its worst month between 6.5 and 11.7 degrees Celsius above the worst month the breed's homeland produces. Bengaluru, which Indian buyers reach for as the mild option, is still six and a half degrees past anything a Langhaar's ancestors met.

The sentence that settles it

Chennai's coolest month for wet bulb is January at 21.77 degrees Celsius. Hannover's hottest is July at 16.15. So the mildest month Chennai offers this breed is 5.62 degrees hotter, on the measure that governs cooling, than the hottest month it was bred in. There is no season in Chennai that resembles a German summer. Winter is not relief, it is a smaller version of the same problem.

Why the coat makes it worse, not better

The standard is explicit that the body hair is dense with good undercoat, and that the belly is well coated. An undercoat is an insulating layer, and insulation works in both directions. This is not a single-coated hot-country dog; it is a double coat designed to hold body heat in a northern European autumn and to shed water in cold marsh work. In Chennai in May, that is equipment working against its owner.

Set against that, the pigment is good news. The nose is brown and the standard's colours run to self brown, roan and mottled patterns rather than to the unpigmented pink skin that gets solar dermatitis. A predominantly white mottled dog will still need shade discipline, but this breed is not carrying the pale-skin risk that makes some pointers a poor bet in Indian sun.

Exertion, not the parked car, is what actually kills

Exertion is the dominant recorded trigger of heat-related illness in dogs, accounting for 652 of the 879 UK events that had a trigger recorded, and that is the risk profile a versatile gundog carries into an Indian summer. Neither of the two papers behind that figure modelled the German Longhaired Pointer, so no breed-specific odds ratio is claimed on this page.

The largest study of heat-related illness in dogs is a VetCompass analysis of 905,543 UK dogs across 886 clinics in 2016. In the Animals paper from that cohort there were 1,259 heat-related illness events from 1,222 dogs. 380 of those events, 30.2 per cent, had no trigger recorded, leaving 879 with a recorded one, and those 879 split six ways: 652 exertional, 74.2 per cent, 113 environmental at 12.9 per cent, 46 from vehicular confinement at 5.2 per cent, 40 under the care of a clinic or groomer at 4.6 per cent, 24 from building confinement at 2.7 per cent and 4 from blanket entrapment at 0.5 per cent. Those six sum to 879 exactly, which is worth stating because the three headline categories alone come to 811 and quoting only those silently drops 68 events.

One more denominator trap sits in that paper's own abstract, which says exertional illness was the predominant trigger at 74.2 per cent of events. That 74.2 per cent is of the 879 events with a known trigger, not of all 1,259. Of all events it is 652 of 1,259, which is 51.8 per cent. The companion Scientific Reports paper on the same cohort is a different analysis with a different case definition, reporting 395 confirmed events, an incidence risk of 0.04 per cent and an event fatality rate of 14.18 per cent.

Neither paper modelled the German Longhaired Pointer, and the reason is stated in the Scientific Reports methods: a breed was named individually only if it had at least five heat-illness cases or at least 5,000 dogs in the study population, and everything else went into a grouped 'other purebred' category. So no breed-specific odds ratio is claimed here for this dog. What transfers is the mechanism: exertion is the dominant recorded trigger, and this is a breed that will run itself into trouble because running is what it was built for.

What that means for an Indian owner in practice

Three habits follow from the trigger split, and none of them is complicated. Work the dog before sunrise, when Indian wet bulb is at its daily floor. Stop the session on the dog's breathing rather than on the clock, because a biddable dog will keep going past the point where it should have stopped. And treat a hot, still, humid morning as a rest day rather than a shorter session, since it is humidity rather than air temperature that removes the cooling mechanism.

One further note on the fatality figure, because it is often quoted loosely. The Scientific Reports paper records 56 fatal outcomes among its 395 events, giving an event fatality rate of 14.18 per cent with a 95 per cent confidence interval of 11.08 to 17.96 per cent. That is roughly one in seven events, in a country with a temperate climate and a dense veterinary network. Neither of those conditions holds across most of India.

Temperament and household fit

The FCI standard describes the German Longhaired Pointer's temperament in six words: balanced, calm, temperament, good natured, easily trained. That is an unusually gentle description for a versatile hunting breed, and the British breed club agrees with it, calling the dog energetic with a gentle and biddable temperament and specifically not strong-willed or stubborn.

Take the standard first, because it is the document the breed is bred to. Under Behaviour and Temperament it reads: balanced, calm, temperament, good natured, easily trained. Two of its disqualifying faults are aggressive or overly shy dogs, and any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities, so temperament is a gate rather than a preference.

The German club puts a sharper edge on it in its breeding rules, with a single sentence that tells you how seriously it is taken: a temperament fault once shown is not curable. There is no rehabilitation route back into the studbook for a dog that has failed on character.

Who this breed suits

It suits a household that will work the dog. The British club describes a friendly dog with bags of energy and a desire to please, alert and loyal, relishing the company of people, equally at home having a cuddle or out in the shooting field. That is a family dog with a job, and the job is not optional.

• Households that will give two or more hours of real activity daily, every day, in every season
• Owners who want a biddable, gentle gundog rather than an independent or hard-headed one
• Families with children who can handle a large, energetic dog that wants to be indoors with them
• Anyone with access to open ground, water and time, which in urban India is the binding constraint
• Owners who will socialise a puppy hard and early, because a sensitive dog needs the exposure

Who should not buy one

• First-time owners in an Indian metro apartment, where neither the exercise nor the climate works
• Anyone hoping a long coat means a low-energy dog, which is the opposite of what the standard describes
• Households out for ten hours a day, because this is a people-oriented breed that does badly alone
• Owners who want a guard dog, since the standard's temperament description points the other way
• Anyone unwilling to run a weekly ear routine for the dog's whole life

The sensitivity that gets missed

Gentle and biddable is not the same as bombproof. The club's description of a sometimes sensitive disposition that responds well to early and consistent training is a warning as much as a compliment. A sensitive dog handled harshly shuts down rather than fights back, and shutting down is easy to mistake for obedience. In an Indian household where a large dog is often trained by whoever is loudest, that mismatch is the commonest way this temperament goes wrong.

One more household note that matters in India specifically. This is a dog that will be indoors with the family in air-conditioning for much of the hot season, then asked to work outdoors at dawn. That daily swing between a cooled room and Chennai's May wet bulb of 27.36 degrees Celsius is harder on the dog than either condition alone.

Training approach, and what this breed resists

Train a German Longhaired Pointer with reward, repetition and early exposure, because both its standard and its breed club describe an easily trained, biddable dog rather than a difficult one. What it resists is not commands. It resists correction, and it resists being left with nothing to do.

The evidence for the easy part is unusually consistent, and it makes this one of the more trainable continental gundogs on paper. The FCI standard lists 'easily trained' among five words of temperament description. The British club says the breed is intelligent, enjoys learning, is not known to be strong-willed or stubborn, and will excel given consistent and positive training. Two independent documents, the same answer.

So the training problem for an Indian owner is not obedience. It is that the breed's own registry expects it to socialise, hunt, point and retrieve on tested standards, and an Indian owner will be asked to satisfy the drive behind those behaviours without any of the fieldwork that normally absorbs it.

A realistic timeline

What the German testing system actually asks of the dog

The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband requires proof of hunting aptitude through the Jagdgebrauchshundverband's breeding tests, and it names them: the Verbands-Jugendpruefung, the spring aptitude test, plus the Verbands-Herbstzuchtpruefung, the autumn breeding test, or the Verbands-Gebrauchspruefung taken at HZP age. It also requires a separate hardness certificate under JGHV rules and a voice certificate proving the dog gives tongue on hare or fox.

The voice rule is the one that shows how serious this is. A dog that hunts mute at the VJP and then convincingly gives tongue by the end of its HZP year passes. A dog that fails the retest in its HZP year gets no breeding release, and the rule says plainly, not at any later time either. There is no route back.

Training this breed in an Indian city

Two adjustments matter. First, do the work at dawn. Chennai's May wet bulb averages 27.36 degrees Celsius and Delhi's July reaches 27.74, and a training session that would be routine in Hannover becomes a heat-illness risk in those numbers. Second, replace fieldwork with problems rather than with distance. A dog bred to search methodically is satisfied by scent games, retrieves into cover and water work, and is not satisfied by a longer walk on a road.

Do not import the German club's live-quarry test elements. India's hunting law and the practical realities of Indian cities put those out of reach, and this page is not suggesting an Indian owner replicate them. The point of quoting them is that they explain the dog's brain, not that you should reproduce them.

The performance-test system behind the breed, and why it is better evidence than a show register

The German Longhaired Pointer cannot be bred in Germany until it has passed hunting tests set by the Jagdgebrauchshundverband, and that requirement is written into the breed club's own breeding order. It is a stronger quality signal than a conformation title, because it measures what the dog does rather than how it looks standing still.

The Jagdgebrauchshundverband has been the umbrella body for German hunting-dog testing since 1899. Its own statement of purpose says it currently has 319 member clubs and associations organising roughly 180,000 dog-handling hunters, that it sets the common test regulations for all of them, and that it keeps the Deutsches Gebrauchshund-Stammbuch as a performance studbook rather than a pedigree one. A studbook organised around what dogs did is a different instrument from one organised around who their parents were.

What the breed club actually requires before a dog may breed

The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband's breeding order, eighth edition, decided and in force from 4 June 2023, sets out the gates. A dog must be at least 18 months old on the day of mating, must be graded at least 'good' in type, form and coat by two recognised judges, must fall inside the standard's heights, and must not carry a temperament fault, because a temperament fault once shown is not curable.

Why this beats a show register as evidence

A conformation register tells you a dog looked correct to a judge. A performance register tells you it worked, and it does so across three separate axes that a show ring cannot test. The hardness certificate measures whether a dog will face difficult quarry. The voice certificate measures whether it gives tongue, which is a heritable trait a handler cannot fake. The autumn breeding test measures searching, pointing, water work and retrieving under judges Jagdgebrauchshundverband e.V..

That matters to a buyer anywhere, including in India, for a blunt reason: it is the only part of this breed's paperwork that is hard to forge and easy to check. A pedigree can be asserted. A JGHV test result sits in a national performance studbook against a named dog on a named date.

What the club publishes, and what it does not

The club publishes its stud-dog register openly, and it is unusually detailed. Each entry carries the studbook number with its hip grade, the elbow and shoulder findings, height, coat and eye colour, the type, form and coat grades, the actual test scores, the performance figures for hare track and for searching with duck in cover-rich water, the type of voice, the date of the hardness certificate, the parents with their own figures, and the number of successful matings Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband e.V..

It does not publish everything. The cataract monitoring order states expressly that results will not be made generally accessible in the studbook, in written or electronic form, or in the club's magazine. So no cataract prevalence figure for this breed can be quoted from the programme, and this page does not invent one. The monitoring exists and its output is deliberately private, which is a fact worth knowing rather than a gap to fill.

How much exercise a German Longhaired Pointer actually needs

Plan on two hours a day of real work, split around the heat, for the dog's whole adult life. The German Longhaired Pointer's own standard defines it as a versatile working gundog that must be capable of field, water and forest work before and after the shot, and a dog selected on that for 145 years does not become a low-exercise pet because it lives in a flat.

The standard's utilization clause is the requirement, stated plainly: a versatile working gundog which, in accordance with its various requirements, needs the abilities for all work in field, water and forest and for working well before and after the shot. That is not a description of temperament. It is a job specification, and the breeding system tests against it.

The British club's phrasing is the practical translation: a friendly dog with bags of energy, originally bred to be an inexhaustible, wide-ranging hunting dog. Inexhaustible is the operative word for anyone planning a morning walk and calling it done.

The ranking pages agree that exercise needs are the deciding question for this breed. Purina's breed page gives Exercise Needs and Space Requirements their own headings alongside personality, grooming and training, which is a fair reflection of where the difficulty actually sits. What none of them does is convert those exercise needs into an Indian day, where the usable hours are set by heat rather than by the owner's schedule.

What the daily requirement looks like in an Indian city

What happens without it

Under-exercised versatile gundogs do not become calm. They become destructive, vocal and anxious, and the energy goes into the household instead. The pattern is predictable enough that the ranking pages agree on it even when they agree on nothing else, and the honest version is that a bored Langhaar is an owner's problem long before it is a dog's problem.

There is a second failure mode that matters more in India, and it is the opposite one. An owner who tries to deliver two hours of work in the wrong part of the day is running an exertion risk, and exertion is the dominant trigger in the largest heat-illness study there is: 652 of the 879 events with a recorded trigger, 74.2 per cent. Under-exercising damages the dog slowly. Over-exercising it at eleven in the morning in Pune, where the April air maximum reaches 43.20 degrees Celsius, can kill it the same day.

Swimming, and the ear cost that comes with it

The breed likes water and the standard requires water work, so swimming is the single best Indian exercise for it: it removes the heat load and satisfies the drive at the same time. It carries one cost. Every swim wets a long pendulous ear, and pendulous ears carry higher otitis externa risk than erect ones. Dry the ears after every swim, every time, and treat that as part of the exercise rather than as aftercare.

Grooming and coat care in Indian humidity

Groom a German Longhaired Pointer twice a week with a slicker and a comb through the feathering, and treat the ears as a separate weekly job that never stops. The coat is 3 to 5 cm on the body with a good undercoat, feathered on the ears, legs and tail, and it is the undercoat and the ear feathering, not the length, that make Indian humidity difficult.

Work from the standard rather than from a generic long-coat routine. The FCI text asks for hair 3 to 5 cm on the back and sides, close fitting, longer under the neck, chest and belly; a well coated belly; wavy feathered ears; a tail with good plume coated to the tip; feathering behind the front legs and breeches behind the hind legs, with significantly shorter hair below the hock and dense short hair between the toes. Every one of those is a place moisture collects.

The weekly routine

1. Brush the body twice weekly with a slicker, working down to the undercoat rather than skating the topcoat
2. Comb the ear feathering, leg feathering, breeches and tail plume separately, because these mat first
3. Check between the toes, where the standard specifies dense short hair and where grass seeds and moisture lodge
4. Clean and dry both ears weekly, and after every swim or bath without exception
5. Trim nothing the standard describes, since too much feathering is a fault but a trimmed coat is not the fix

Do not follow the overseas advice to air dry

Northern-hemisphere breed guidance routinely tells owners to towel a gundog off and let it air dry. That is sound in a German autumn and poor advice in an Indian monsoon, where ambient humidity keeps a wet ear wet for hours. Chennai's relative humidity averages 82.33 per cent in November and stays above 76 per cent from September through January. An ear canal under a long wet flap in that air does not dry on its own.

The Indian evidence backs the caution, and it also shows the question is not settled on timing. A Palam Valley cross-sectional study screened 2,476 dogs and identified 81 otitis externa cases, reporting pendulous-eared breeds as the large majority of them. A separate Indian series from Durg district in Chhattisgarh found prevalence peaking in summer rather than in the monsoon. Two Indian datasets, two different peak seasons. The safe reading is that there is no month in which an Indian owner of this breed can stop checking ears.

The UK primary-care work is the structural evidence behind both: pendulous ear carriage is a recognised predisposing factor for canine otitis externa. This breed has long feathered ears by standard, so it inherits that risk by design.

Shedding, and the claim this breed does not make

The coat is often called weather-resistant, and the standard's basis for that description is the dense undercoat, the well coated belly and the close-fitting body hair rather than any waterproofing claim. Weather-resistant in a German marsh and comfortable in a Chennai May are different properties, and only the first one is in the document.

The standard says the coat is dense with good undercoat, and a dense undercoat sheds. Nobody markets this breed as hypoallergenic, which is to its credit, and nothing here should be read as suggesting it is. If a seller ever tells you a long-coated pointer is low-shedding, they have not read the standard.

Health risks, screening and what the breed club actually measures

The German Longhaired Pointer's health issues are best judged from two screening programmes its own club runs and publishes rules for: a hip, elbow and shoulder radiography regime from 12 months, and a mandatory cataract examination before every mating since 1 July 2023. There is no published lifespan study for the breed, and this page does not borrow one from a relative.

Start with what is measured, because that is what can be checked. The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband's breeding order sets the hip rule in one sentence: the grading may not be worse than mild hip dysplasia, HD-C, and a dog with mild HD may be used only with prior approval from the breeding commission, granted once and for a single litter. Elbows are graded on the same document, with ED0 and ED1 permitted and ED2 or ED3 triggering a breeding ban; a positive osteochondrosis finding on either shoulder is also a breeding ban. Minimum age for the radiographs is 12 months.

What the published stud list shows about hips

Because the club publishes its stud register openly, the hip regime can be audited rather than taken on trust. Bonbeno downloaded the alphabetical master list published under the heading 'Aktueller Bestand an Deckrueden (Stand 01.01.2026)', extracted its text, and counted the entries.

Read that carefully, because it is easy to over-claim. This is the approved stud population, a selected group that has already passed the club's gate, not a random sample of the breed. It cannot tell you the prevalence of hip dysplasia in German Longhaired Pointers. What it does tell you is that the gate is real and that it bites: not one HD-C dog appears on the list, which is exactly what the rule predicts, since a C dog is approved only case by case for one litter rather than listed as a standing stud.

The eye programme, and why it publishes no prevalence figure

Since 1 July 2023 every breeding dog up to the completion of its sixth year must have an eye examination by a veterinarian of the Dortmunder Kreis panel before a mating. The minimum age for the first examination is 18 months, a second is compulsory after a further 24 months if the dog continues to be bred, and dogs past their sixth year need no further examination.

The programme's design is deliberately non-punitive. Dogs with a positive finding are expressly not barred from breeding while the monitoring runs, unless they are fully cataractous or have been operated on, and a positive dog may be mated only to a negative-tested dog. The stated aim is to obtain scientifically sound data before writing a breeding rule.

One consequence has to be stated plainly. The order says the result will not be made generally accessible in the studbook, in written or electronic form, or in the club's magazine. So no cataract prevalence figure for this breed exists in public, and Bonbeno publishes none. The programme is evidence that the club takes the condition seriously; it is not a number.

The condition lists on ranking pages, and what is behind them

A veterinary clinic page ranking for this breed's name lists suspected disease risks including bleeding disorders, distichiasis, bloat, cancer, allergies, heart disease, hip dysplasia, knee ligament tear and laryngeal paralysis, and attaches no prevalence figure, no study and no sample size to any of them. Those are plausible risks for a large deep-chested gundog. They are not measurements, and this page will not restate them as though they were.

Two health-relevant details do come from the breed standard itself and are worth knowing. Ectropion and entropion are disqualifying faults, and the standard explicitly disqualifies eyelids which have been surgically corrected, which closes the loophole of showing a repaired dog. And the standard requires complete dentition of 42 teeth, so missing teeth are a fault the breed is actively selected against.

What the independent data actually shows: eyes, bloat and four papers

Independent evidence on the German Longhaired Pointer exists in two places and both are small. The OFA's eye registry holds 61 evaluations of the breed and no hip or elbow rows at all, and PubMed holds exactly four papers about it, one of which names the breed among those at greatest risk of death from bloat.

The Orthopedic Foundation for Animals is the usual source of breed screening percentages, and for this breed it holds only eyes. Bonbeno retrieved OFA's full statistics payload, 5,887,106 characters covering 513 disease tables, and searched it. The breed appears in 14 rows, every one of them in an eye table. Its hip and elbow tables contain no German Longhaired Pointer row at all.

That absence was checked rather than assumed. Controls run against the same file in the same session returned 109 rows for LABRADOR, 101 for GOLDEN RETRIEVER, 81 for GERMAN SHORTHAIRED and 40 for GERMAN WIREHAIRED, so the dump loaded and the search worked. The right way to write the hip result is that this breed has no row in OFA's published statistics tables, not that it is absent from the OFA database.

The eye numbers, and the contradiction inside them

Two things have to be said about that table rather than quietly smoothed over. The summary line reports 72.1 per cent normal on 61 evaluations while the detail row reports 41 normal of 60 tested, which is 68.3 per cent. The denominators differ by one and the percentages differ by 3.8 points. Neither figure should be quoted as the rate; both are printed here with the arithmetic so a reader can see the inconsistency is OFA's, not this page's.

The second point is the useful one. Add up the lens rows and cataract findings dominate this breed's eye record: 7 plus 4 plus 4 plus 2 plus 2 plus 1 plus 1, which is 21 of the 60 dogs, before persistent pupillary membranes and vitreous findings are counted. Some of those dogs will carry more than one finding, so 21 is a count of findings rather than of animals, and it must not be read as a prevalence. But it points the same way as the German club's decision to make a cataract examination compulsory before every mating from 1 July 2023. Two independent bodies, one on each side of the Atlantic, are worried about the same organ.

The four papers that exist, and the lifespan study this breed is not in

PubMed holds exactly four papers genuinely about the German Longhaired Pointer, and the most useful of them names the breed among those at greatest risk of death from gastric dilatation-volvulus. The largest UK longevity study does not include the breed at all, which is why no lifespan figure appears anywhere on this page.

PubMed holds exactly four records genuinely about this breed, and all four were opened and read. The one that matters most to an owner is the oldest: a UK study of gastric dilatation-volvulus in pedigree dogs which reports that the breeds at greatest risk of GDV mortality were the bloodhound, the Grand Bleu de Gascogne, the German longhaired pointer and the Neapolitan mastiff. That is a named, breed-specific finding on a condition that kills quickly, and it is the single most actionable line of evidence on this page.

The other three are narrower. A 2022 BMC Genomics paper identifies a recurrent somatic missense mutation in the GNAS gene in familial thyroid follicular cell carcinomas in German longhaired pointer dogs. A 2022 Animal Genetics paper maps the unique genetic signature and selection footprints of the Dutch population of the breed. And a 2012 case report describes lymphocytic hypophysitis in a single eight-year-old male of the breed, which is one dog and should be read as one dog.

Why no lifespan figure appears anywhere on this page

The largest UK longevity study covers 584,734 dogs and 155 breeds, and Bonbeno downloaded its supplementary tables and read them as raw document text. The German Longhaired Pointer has no row of its own in Table S3 or Table S6. The control proves the search worked: the German Shorthaired Pointer is in both, with a median survival of 13.4 years on 947 deaths, and the German Wirehaired Pointer is in both at 13.0 years on 138 deaths.

That missing row is a merge rather than an exclusion, and the difference matters. Supplementary Table S5 records the analysed row labelled German Wirehaired Pointer as covering the German Longhaired Pointer and the German Roughhaired Pointer as well. So this breed's British dogs are inside that 13.0-year figure, pooled with two others, and no separate median can be read out of it.

The pooled number is not this breed's number and this page will not print it as one. A German Longhaired Pointer is not a German Shorthaired Pointer with longer hair; they are separate standards, separate populations and separate gene pools, and the honest answer to 'how long do they live' is that nobody has measured this breed on its own.

Feeding, body condition and what is available in India

Feed a German Longhaired Pointer as a 30 kg working dog whose workload changes with the Indian season, and manage bodyweight harder than you would for a pet breed, because bodyweight at or above the breed and sex mean is an independently reported risk factor for heat-related illness.

The standard gives one weight figure and it is a useful anchor: average 30 kg, with no separate male and female weights. Alongside it the standard warns that smaller dogs must have plenty of substance but that too massive and thereby clumsy dogs are not desired, which is the breed's own guidance against feeding for size.

Why bodyweight is a heat variable, not a cosmetic one

The VetCompass analysis of 905,543 UK dogs reports an odds ratio of 1.42, 95 per cent confidence interval 1.12 to 1.80, for heat-related illness in dogs at or above their breed and sex mean bodyweight compared with dogs below it. The same paper's headline 3.42 figure for dogs over 50 kg is measured against dogs under 10 kg, not against the general population, so it is not the comparison an owner of a 30 kg gundog should reach for. The breed-mean figure is the one that applies here, and a Langhaar can drift above its own breed mean very easily.

That single finding changes how an Indian owner should read a body condition score. In Germany a slightly heavy Langhaar is a fitness question. In Chennai, where May wet bulb averages 27.36 degrees Celsius, it is a heat-safety question.

Life-stage feeding

What is available in India

Nothing about this breed's nutrition is exotic, which is the good news. A large-breed adult food from any of the brands sold widely in Indian retail will meet it, and no Indian supplier stocks a German Longhaired Pointer specific formulation because no Indian market exists for one. Buy on the dog's weight, activity and joint status, not on the breed name.

Two Indian practicalities. First, food storage in monsoon humidity spoils fat faster than in a German pantry, so buy smaller bags more often rather than a single large one. Second, a dog worked at dawn and fed immediately after is at gastric-dilatation risk in a deep-chested breed; split the meal and leave a gap after hard work.

The first year, month by month

Plan a German Longhaired Pointer's first year around three fixed dates that are set by documents rather than opinion: eight weeks, which is the earliest an Indian breeder may lawfully sell a pup, twelve months, which is the earliest the German club will radiograph hips, and eighteen months, which is the earliest it will grade the adult coat.

Those three anchors are not arbitrary. Rule 8, Conditions for sale, of India's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Dog Breeding and Marketing) Rules, 2017 requires every breeder to ensure that pups less than eight weeks in age are not sold. The German club's own breeding order sets 12 months as the minimum age for hip, elbow and shoulder radiography, and 18 months as the earliest age for a final grading of type, form and coat.

The Indian legal frame around a puppy

Two more provisions of the 2017 Rules apply to anyone acquiring a pup in India, and both are worth knowing even for a breed with no Indian market. Rule 8(1)(b) requires that dogs over six months in age are not sold without first being sterilised, unless they are being sold to another licensed breeder. And the Second Schedule, Part III, paragraph 8(9) records that pup vaccination can start at seven to eight weeks and is usually completed at eighteen weeks.

That six-month sterilisation rule is the one Indian buyers are most often surprised by, and it is a Rule, not a schedule paragraph, so it sits in the operative part of the instrument.

The heat calendar of a first year in India

A puppy born in November grows through the cool months and meets its first Indian summer at six or seven months, which is the worst possible timing: old enough to want to run, young enough to have no judgement about heat. A puppy born in June meets summer at eleven or twelve months, better able to self-regulate but also strong enough to overdo it. Neither is safe by accident. Chennai runs above 24 degrees Celsius wet bulb from March to October, so the heat rule has to be a household habit from the first week, not a summer measure.

How the German Longhaired Pointer compares with the breeds it is confused with

Compare the German Longhaired Pointer against its three German siblings on four things that actually differ: FCI standard number, FCI section, coat, and how many puppies each produced in Germany in 2025. Those four separate the breeds cleanly, and none of them appears on the pages currently ranking for this term.

The confusion is not the reader's fault. Four breeds share a country, a group, a job and most of a name, and the only reliable discriminator is the paperwork.

Two things jump out of that table. The Langhaar is the only one of the four the FCI files under the Spaniel type, which is a statement about how it is built and how it works. And the population spread is enormous: the Drahthaar produced 2,215 puppies in Germany in 2025 against the Stichelhaar's 15, a ratio of 147 to 1 in a single year.

Langhaar against Stichelhaar, the pair most often swapped

These two get confused because both are 'the German pointer with the odd coat'. They are not close. The Langhaar's coat is 3 to 5 cm, sleek, smooth or slightly wavy, with a good undercoat and feathering. The Stichelhaar's is stiff, harsh and bristly, about 4 cm, with a beard and pronounced eyebrows and only a hardly visible undercoat Federation Cynologique Internationale. One is a setter-like dog; the other looks weathered and rough.

The registries separate them too. Both are recognised by the FCI, but the Langhaar sits in Section 1.2 and the Stichelhaar in Section 1.1, and their populations differ by a factor of 25 in the 2025 register. A page that discusses them interchangeably is describing neither. Bonbeno keeps them separate, and the German Roughhaired Pointer guide covers the other one properly.

Against the breeds an Indian buyer can actually get

The comparison that matters for most readers is not between the four German breeds at all. It is between wanting a versatile continental gundog and being able to keep one. If the answer to the exercise and heat questions is no, the answer is no for all four.

How rare is it really? The registration numbers, with dates

The German Longhaired Pointer is uncommon but not endangered, and the numbers say so precisely. The VDH registered 382 puppies in Germany in 2025 and 7,427 across the fifteen years from 2011 to 2025. The breed has fallen 34.3 per cent since 2021, and the entire German register has fallen 35.7 per cent over the same span, so it is not losing ground relative to its market.

That last comparison is the finding, and no ranking page makes it. 'Rare' is a word; a share of a shrinking register is a measurement.

The share column is the point. Across a decade and a half in which the German pedigree register lost roughly a third of its volume, this breed held between 0.47 and 0.69 per cent of it. A breed genuinely in trouble loses share as well as absolute numbers. This one did not.

Where the breed club and the register disagree

The Deutsch-Langhaar-Verband's own website states that about 600 puppies a year are entered in its studbook. The VDH's registration table gives 382 in 2025, 358 in 2024 and 374 in 2023. Those are not compatible. The club's figure was last approached in 2021, when 581 puppies were registered, and has been well out of date for at least three years.

Bonbeno publishes both rather than picking one. The club's page is the club speaking about itself; the VDH table is the register that actually records the litters. Where they conflict, the register is the stronger document, but a reader deserves to know that the breed's own body is quoting a number the register no longer supports.

A cross-check that reconciles exactly

English Wikipedia reports a different window on the same register: fifteen years from 2010 to 2024, averaging about 509 registrations a year, low 352, high 587, total 7,632, about 0.68 per cent of 1,127,154 total registrations. Bonbeno's live pull covers 2011 to 2025 and totals 7,427. The two windows differ by one year at each end, so the difference should equal the 2010 figure minus the 2025 figure. It does: 7,632 minus 7,427 is 205, and 587 minus 382 is also 205. The two readings of the register agree exactly, which is a rare thing to be able to say and worth saying.

Is it on any at-risk register?

No. Germany's equivalent of a vulnerable-breed list is the Rote Liste published by the Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung alter und gefaehrdeter Haustierrassen, and its January 2026 edition does carry a Hunde row. That row names eight breeds: the Altdeutscher Huetehund in two forms, the Grossspitz, the Mittelspitz, the Deutscher Pinscher and the salt-and-pepper Mittelschnauzer, plus the Bergamasco and the Bouvier des Ardennes as foreign breeds. Neither German pointing breed appears.

That absence is checked rather than assumed: the list returned eight named dog breeds in the same retrieval, so the document loaded and the query worked. The reason is scope. The GEH list covers old and endangered domestic and farm breeds, and its dog entries are herding, spitz, pinscher and schnauzer farm types rather than gundogs. A gundog with a working-test culture and 382 puppies a year is simply not what that list is for.

The British equivalent does not apply either, and the Royal Kennel Club says why in its own words: 'Vulnerable native breeds are dog breeds of British and Irish origin that are considered to be vulnerable due to their declining registration numbers';. A German breed cannot qualify however few of it there are. That list works on thresholds of fewer than 300 registrations a year for vulnerable status and 300 to 450 for the at-watch list, and the word German appears on the page zero times. So neither the German nor the British at-risk instrument covers this breed, and the correct statement is that no at-risk register lists it rather than that it has been assessed and cleared.

Mistakes Indian buyers make with this breed

The commonest mistake with the German Longhaired Pointer in India is buying a different dog by accident, because four German pointing breeds share most of a name and no ranking page prints a standard number. The rest follow from treating a long coat as a sign of a calm dog.

1. Buying on the name instead of the number

Four FCI standards, one country, one group, four coats. A seller who says 'German pointer' has told you almost nothing. Ask for 117. This is not fussiness; a Facebook result ranking in the top ten for this breed's own name answers a question about it by quoting German Shorthaired Pointer heights and weights, which is a different breed under a different standard.

2. Assuming a long coat means a calm dog

It means the opposite here. The standard defines a versatile working gundog required to work field, water and forest before and after the shot, and the British club calls it an inexhaustible, wide-ranging hunting dog German Longhaired Pointer Club (UK). The coat is water and cover protection, not upholstery.

3. Repeating the 3.5 cm coat figure

Almost every English page gives the coat as about 3.5 cm. The FCI standard says 3 to 5 cm, and the collapse happened inside the VDH's German breed lexicon, where the range's hyphen became a decimal comma before English pages picked it up Verband fuer das Deutsche Hundewesen Wikipedia, 'German Longhaired Pointer'. A small error, but it tells you how much of the English coverage is copied rather than read.

4. Exercising at the wrong time of day

This is the one that kills dogs. Exertion accounted for 652 of the 879 heat-illness events with a recorded trigger in the largest study available, 74.2 per cent, and Indian afternoon conditions are far outside anything the breed was selected in. Delhi's June air maximum reaches 48.79 degrees Celsius and Chennai's May wet bulb averages 27.36. Move the work to dawn and keep it there.

5. Letting the ears air dry

Overseas gundog guidance says towel off and let the dog air dry, and in Indian humidity that is wrong. Chennai's relative humidity averages 82.33 per cent in November, pendulous ears are a recognised predisposing factor for otitis externa, and Indian series find real caseloads in pendulous-eared breeds. Dry the canal actively, all year.

6. Accepting a rupee price without asking where the dog came from

There is no Indian breeding population for standard 117, and live dogs are a Restricted import that DGFT says will be duly rejected for trading or breeding purposes. A rupee price for this breed therefore needs an explanation, not a discount.

7. Importing German breeding advice without checking Indian law

The German club's rules and Indian law do not line up, and the differences are real. The club prohibits incest matings, meaning parent to child and brother to sister. India's Second Schedule, Part II, paragraph 6(3) goes further: it prohibits both incest breeding and in-breeding, and defines in-breeding as mating between relatives of the second to fourth grade in straight or side line within the first four generations, giving uncle to niece, nephew to aunt, cousin to cousin and grandparents to grandchildren as its own examples.

So a cousin-to-cousin mating that the German breeding order does not forbid is prohibited in India. The 2017 Rules also cap breeding age in a way the club's order does not, with Second Schedule Part II paragraph 6(4) stating that female dogs shall not be mated after the age of eight years.

That last row deserves care. The FCI standard's line under hindquarters reads simply 'No dewclaws', and it does not say whether the breed carries none naturally or whether any present should be removed. India's Second Schedule Part II paragraph 6(8) is unambiguous: there shall be no tail docking, ear cropping, de-barking, de-clawing, branding, dyeing or any other kind of mutilation, and any change of appearance by artificial means is strictly forbidden. An Indian owner or breeder reading the standard as an instruction to remove a dewclaw would be breaking that clause.

Adoption and responsible sourcing

You will not find a German Longhaired Pointer to adopt in India, and the useful advice is therefore about what to do instead: adopt the dog that is actually in front of you, or, if you specifically want a versatile gundog, buy one that exists here and can be verified.

The reasoning is the same as in the price section. No readable Indian offer of this breed was found, the import route is Restricted and closed to trading or breeding purposes, and no Indian breeding population exists for a rescue to come out of. A breed with no Indian population also has no Indian breed rescue, and there is no German Longhaired Pointer rescue network in India to point you to.

What to do instead, in order

1. Adopt an Indian shelter dog and give it the exercise you were planning to give a gundog, which is the outcome the dog benefits from most
2. Consider a Labrador Retriever or a Golden Retriever if you want a biddable retrieving breed you can actually verify in India
3. If you must have a continental pointing breed, ask any seller for the FCI standard number and the exporting country's pedigree before anything else
4. Check the breeder against the 2017 Rules rather than against a website, because registration and record-keeping are legal requirements in India
5. Walk away from any offer that cannot show where the dog physically came from

How to verify a breeder in India, whatever the breed

India's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Dog Breeding and Marketing) Rules, 2017 give a buyer a checklist that does not depend on trusting anybody. Rule 8 requires that pups under eight weeks are not sold and that dogs over six months are not sold without prior sterilisation unless the buyer is another licensed breeder. Second Schedule Part III paragraph 8 requires a consulting veterinarian, monthly medical examination of every dog at the establishment, and individual health records for animals above eight weeks.

Paragraph 8(10) is the one to quote at a breeder of any pointing breed. It requires that the dogs shall have been tested for genetic defects, including hip dysplasia, progressive retinal atrophy, night blindness, hypothyroidism, entropion, ectropion, overshot, undershot jaw where the incisors do not touch or mesh, wry mouth, two or more missing teeth, and unilateral or full cryptorchid males. The word including matters: the list is illustrative, not closed, so a defect being absent from it does not put it outside the clause.

Two of those items land directly on this breed's standard. FCI 117 disqualifies entropion and ectropion outright, and requires complete dentition of 42 teeth. So an Indian breeder of a Langhaar would be testing for exactly the defects the standard already disqualifies, which is an unusually clean alignment between a breed standard and Indian law.

What the Rules do not require

It is as useful to know what is not there. Bonbeno searched the full gazette text of the 2017 Rules and found zero occurrences of BAER, of deaf, and of patella. There is no Indian hearing-test requirement and no Indian patella-grading requirement for any breed. Anyone telling you otherwise is inventing an obligation.

If you are importing one anyway

The route exists and it is narrow. DGFT Trade Notice 22/2022-23 permits a pet accompanying its owner with a valid pet book in the importer's name, and the dog passes through Animal Quarantine and Certification Services on arrival Animal Quarantine and Certification…. Bring the JGHV test results and the hip grade with the pedigree, because those are the documents that tell an Indian vet what they are looking at. And accept before you start that you will be the only person in your city who has seen this breed.

Compare with similar breeds

German Longhaired Pointer sits in 2 Bonbeno groups. Each one compares it directly against the breeds it is genuinely an alternative to, on the same figures.