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Its ancestry traces to the Celtic bracken that once hunted through Alpine valleys. By around 1500, hounds from Tyrol had become favoured hunting companions of Emperor Maximilian I, which underlines how long the type has existed. That early royal favour also speaks to the quality hunters already recognised in the Tyrolean Hound.
Owners describe Alpine quality in a handy size: a scholarly nose, a musical voice and a family's heart. Owners describe Alpine quality in a handy size: a scholarly nose, a musical voice and a family's heart. Owners describe Alpine quality in a handy size: a scholarly nose, a musical voice and a family's heart.
Take the verdicts here as the breed's honest average, then go and meet real dogs: an afternoon with adult Tyrolean Hounds confirms or corrects every line of it.
The temperament record reads: Easygoing, friendly, stubborn and scent obsessed. Working bred energy at 4/5 does not switch off indoors unless the day has genuinely spent it.
One more set of anchors: food runs about $32 a month for a typical adult of 48 lb, and the breed's prime years run until senior age at about 8 years. Numbers like these are what separate a manageable breed from a mismatch.
The Tyrolean Hound's growth stages run 8 weeks at about 5 to 8 lb, 9 months at about 26 to 44 lb, 18 months at about 35 to 60 lb, ending at the adult range of 35 to 60 lb and 19 to 24 inches tall. Home ground: Austria. The record groups the Tyrolean Hound with the Hound breeds.
Set beside the keeping costs, food at about $32 a month before insurance and vet care, the conclusion holds. Owners who accept the terms upfront call the Tyrolean Hound easy; owners who discover them call the same numbers a burden. For the numbers in one place, the Tyrolean Hound profile collects the size, cost, exercise and health record behind this page.
Questions multiply once the dog arrives, and most of them are answered somewhere in this breed's section: the profile, its other question pages and the tools linked below.
None of these figures stand alone in real life: the Tyrolean Hound's exercise, coat, costs and company needs arrive as one daily package, and the package is what a household is really choosing.
The record summarises it as Easygoing, friendly, stubborn and scent obsessed, with energy at 4/5 and trainability at 3/5. The personality section of the Tyrolean Hound profile expands that summary into daily life, including its records with children (Good with children) and strangers (Friendly with strangers). The full record behind these answers sits on the Tyrolean Hound profile, including the growth and health tables.
Every breed carries a short list of conditions it sees more often than average, and the Tyrolean Hound, living 12 to 14 years, is no exception. The profile's health record names them with notes; screening breeding stock for those conditions is the buyer's strongest protection. Every breed average hides individuals; breeders and rescues who know their dogs can tell you where a specific dog sits.
The record scores grooming effort at 3/5 and shedding at 3/5 for the dense double coat. The coat question pages for the Tyrolean Hound break the routine down week by week; the grooming planner turns it into a schedule.
How long a Tyrolean Hound really lives, stage by stage, with the screening and habits that move the odds.
The comparison answered from the records: size, temperament, workload and which household each breed suits.
Two breeds, one decision: the honest differences that matter day to day.
Last updated: November 6, 2026