Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
France · 19.5–23.5 in tall · medium wiry coat
Next to the average dog it is outgoing with strangers, mentally demanding, high-energy, and prone to drooling. Day to day it sheds moderately.
Find out if a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon suits youA good fit if…
- you have young children
- people come and go a lot
Think twice if…
- your days are mostly indoors
- the dog would be alone and unoccupied
Trait profile
Scored 1–5. A blank means the trait is not recorded for this breed.
About the breed
The Wirehaired Pointing Griffon (also called the Korthals Griffon and the Griffon d'arrêt à poil dur Korthals in France and Quebec) is a breed of dog used in hunting as a gundog. It is sometimes considered to be Dutch in ancestry, due to the nationality of the breed founder, Eduard Karel Korthals. History records the progression of the development of the breed through Biebesheim am Rhein, Germany where the founder established the Ipenwoud kennel and the breed type was established and then into France where it is now recognized. Others consider the Griffon to be a German breed because Korthals' kennel, Ipenwoud, was located in Biebesheim am Rhein, Germany.— English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
