Yes. Brittanys are sweet, adaptable and playful, good with children and other dogs and friendly with visitors. The requirements are real daily exercise and company, because this devoted breed dislikes being left alone for long stretches.
The family record reads: with children, Good with children; temperament, Sweet, adaptable, playful and devoted. The household picture includes moderate shedding, an enthusiastic welcome and a dog that would like to join every outing, ride and walk. For people who want gundog character without gundog size, the Brittany is one of the dog world's best kept secrets. The Brittany fits active family life gracefully: sweet with children, good with other dogs, friendly with visitors and moderate in size and demands.
Family life runs on logistics as much as love: who walks the dog at 6am in February is a more predictive question than whether everyone adores puppies in June.
With other dogs the record reads: Good with dogs.
One more anchor from the record: with strangers the breed reads Friendly with strangers, and with other dogs, Good with dogs; both verdicts colour the answers on this page.
For the record's growth table: the Brittany passes 8 weeks at about 4 to 6 lb, 9 months at about 22 to 30 lb, 12 months at about 26 to 35 lb, and tops out at 30 to 40 lb and 18 to 21 inches. Standard colors: piebald orange-and-white, liver-and-white or black-and-white. The breed belongs to the Non-Sporting group and its home ground is Brittany, France.
Grooming of 3/5 and shedding of 3/5 set the housework terms for any Brittany household. It is the daily routine, repeated for years, that decides whether the match works, not any single trait. For the numbers in one place, the Brittany profile collects the size, cost, exercise and health record behind this page.
The reward for the arithmetic is considerable: a breed that fits becomes the centre of family memory for a decade or more.
A final word on method: everything stated here comes from the Brittany's own record on this site, the same record the breed profile publishes in full, so the two pages can always be checked against each other.
For a child old enough to share the routine, the Brittany is a strong candidate: rated Good with children, trainable at 3/5 and sized at 30 to 40 lb for young handlers to manage under supervision. The dog that is included, exercised and allowed to retreat is the dog the ratings describe.
The record is encouraging: with children it reads Good with children, with other dogs Good with dogs, and the temperament is described as Sweet, adaptable, playful and devoted. Families that meet the 30 to 45 minute exercise bill usually find the Brittany exactly as advertised. Children old enough to ask for the dog are old enough for a share of its routine, and the Brittany will bond fastest with whoever feeds and walks it.
Count 30 to 45 minutes of exercise, then feeding, training and company on top. Dogs are a daily appointment for 12 to 14 years, and the families who thrive with a Brittany are the ones who costed the time as honestly as the money at $25 a month for food.
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Last updated: November 4, 2026