📊Group | 📌 |
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📊Size | Large📌 |
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📊Utilization | Great Gascon Saintongeois: Dog used for shooting and sometimes hunting big game but also hare; generally with the pack or alone as a sleuth. Small Gascon Saintongeois: Versatile dog used for shooting. Its origins make it a hare specialist but also a good hunter of big game |
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✨Appearance | Great G.S.: Very well constructed dog, giving at the same time an impression of strength and elegance. Very French in type with regards to the head, coat, and expression. Small G.S.: Medium sized dog, well proportioned and distinguished. |
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🖍️Nicknames | Grand Gascon Saintongeois Great Gascony Saintongeois |
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🌐Country of origin | France |
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⌛Lifespan, years | 10 - 14 |
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📏Height | 65 cm - 72 cm |
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⚖Weight | 30 kg - 36 kg |
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🌡Temperament | Pack hound par excellence, fine-nosed, wide-casting, and endowed with a very sonorous voice. Joins the pack instinctively. Calm, affectionate, and amenable to orders. |
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📜History | Great G.S.: In the middle of the 19th century, Count Joseph de Carayon-Latour, wanting to regenerate the declining breed of the Hound of Saintonge, crossed the last descendants with the Bleu de Gascogne of Baron Ruble, thus creating the Gascon Saintongeois but causing the extinction of the Hound of Saintonge. Small G.S.: In the middle of the 20th century, some hunters from the South West of France selected the smallest subjects from their litters of Great Gascon Saintongeois and thus created this variety, intended originally for hare hunting. |
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