!!!Hunderassen, österreichische

Dog Breeds, Austrian: Austrian short-haired pointers (Bracke) and 
Austrian shorthaired pinschers. Pointers are a sporting breed and do 
not hunt in packs, but in pairs. Preferred game are rabbits, 
occasionally foxes.

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Austrian pointers: Brandlbracke pointers (also called "Vieraeugl"); 
Tirolean pointers (Austrian flat-coated pointer), its original form 
dates back to around 1500; Styrian wire-haired Alpine pointer 
("Peintinger Bracke"), bred around 1880 from the Hanover bloodhound, 
the wire-haired Istrianer Bracke pointer and the Brandlbracke; 
Alpenlaendische Dachsbracke, short-limbed hunting dog, bred from 
long-limbed pointers for the slow hunt, can be traced back to similar 
dogs in the Middle Ages, good bloodhound, mainly bred in Carinthia and 
in Styria.

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Austrian short-haired pinscher, kept as a watchdog since the Baroque 
period. This breed was officially recognised in 1928.


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