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Pyrenean Sheepdog (Long Haired)
The long-haired Pyrenean Sheepdog is the rough-faced variety of the breed, the one with goat-like furnishings on the muzzle and a long coat that may part naturally or form loose…
About the Pyrenean Sheepdog (Long Haired)
The long-haired Pyrenean Sheepdog is the rough-faced variety of the breed, the one with goat-like furnishings on the muzzle and a long coat that may part naturally or form loose cords over the hindquarters and thighs. It is the commoner of the two varieties in its homeland and the one usually seen at British shows.
Height runs from roughly 40 to 48 cm for dogs, and the coat may be long or half-long, harsh in texture and flat or slightly wavy. Colours include fawn, charcoal grey, blue and the merle pattern the French call arlequin, often with white on the chest. Two arlequins should never be paired, since doubling the merle gene brings deafness and malformed eyes with it. A stud should carry a properly textured coat and move with the light, hovering gait the variety is known for.
Ask for hip scores, for a current eye certificate covering collie eye anomaly and cataract, and for a patellar assessment. Ask about epilepsy in the wider pedigree, which the breed carries and no test will detect. Because so few of these dogs are registered in Britain, ask what the coefficient of inbreeding would be and whether the stud owner has considered a mating using imported lines.
Health & breeding
We check every hip, elbow, eye and DNA result you give us against the Royal Kennel Club’s public records by hand, and we record who checked it and when. The Royal Kennel Club’s public records may not include all the screening a dog has had, so a dog with no Royal Kennel Club record showing is not necessarily untested.
Breed Right’s summary — under The Royal Kennel Club Health Standard
Health tests for the Pyrenean Sheepdog (Long Haired)
This panel is Breed Right’s summary of the testing that matters for the breed under The Royal Kennel Club Health Standard. The Health Standard is the Royal Kennel Club’s guidance for breeders, not a registration rule. It describes tests to ask about — it is not a report on any individual dog. The Royal Kennel Club’s public records may not include all the screening a dog has had, so a dog with no Royal Kennel Club record showing is not necessarily untested.
Best Practice — further tests it recommends
Completing these as well as the Good Practice tests is what the Royal Kennel Club calls Best Practice.
| Test | Type | Scheme | What’s involved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hip score (BVA/KC) | Screening scheme | BVA/KC | Total of both hips, 0–106. Lower is better. |
Breed club schemes listed in the Health Standard
Run by the breed club, not the Royal Kennel Club, which does not record their results. The Standard lists them as schemes to be aware of.
| Test | Type | Scheme | What’s involved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart testing (breed club scheme) | Other | Breed club | The club scheme’s own result, e.g. murmur grade. |
Breed hip median
Breed median 12 (BVA Hip Dysplasia Scheme breed statistics 2025 — 5 years, 5 dogs scored — indicative only, from a small sample). Lower is better. Source · How hip scores work
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Pyrenean Sheepdog (Long Haired) stud dogs
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Pyrenean Sheepdog (Long Haired) litters
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