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Its short legs set the working pace. As Austria's leash tracking specialist, the Alpine Dachsbracke follows wounded deer through steep forest by cold scent, sometimes hours old, and a low build keeps that pursuit methodical rather than fast. Short legs also help it work beneath low cover. The result is a full scent hound's nose in a compact frame.
Long ears drag through everything and need weekly cleaning, per the notes. Nails need trims on a dog built for mountain miles, and teeth benefit from brushing. Owners rate the grooming total as low: a mountain working dog's coat, maintained in minutes. Long ears drag through everything and need weekly cleaning, per the notes.
Owners who do well with this breed tend to share one habit: they planned the dog's day as deliberately as their own, and the dog repaid the planning with an easy temperament.
The temperament record reads: Patient, gentle, determined and led by the nose. At 3 out of 5 for energy, the Alpine Dachsbracke is active without being extreme, a fair match for households that walk 60 to 90 minutes a day.
For scale: the Alpine Dachsbracke stands 13 to 17 inches and weighs 33 to 40 lb, counts as a senior from about 8 years, and needs 60 to 90 minutes of exercise daily. Keep those numbers in mind and the rest of the page falls into place.
For the record's growth table: the Alpine Dachsbracke passes 8 weeks at about 5 to 6 lb, 4 months at about 11 to 13 lb, 18 months at about 33 to 40 lb, and tops out at 33 to 40 lb and 13 to 17 inches. Standard colors: dark deer red, sometimes black hairs. In the record's grouping the Alpine Dachsbracke is a Hound breed, and its home ground is Austria.
Put against the daily exercise bill of 60 to 90 minutes, the picture stays consistent. Owners who planned for the whole arc, young dog and old dog alike, are consistently the ones who would choose the Alpine Dachsbracke again. The Alpine Dachsbracke profile is the companion read: same record, full depth, including the life stages and screening notes.
The individual dog still matters more than any general answer: lines, socialisation and the home it lands in bend every breed average, which is why breeder choice carries so much weight.
Food alone runs about $26 a month for a typical adult of 36 lb, with insurance at $35 to $63 on top before routine vet care and grooming. The Alpine Dachsbracke has its own full cost question page, linked from the profile, with year one worked out separately. The record's numbers, 3/5 energy and 3/5 trainability among them, are averages from real dogs, and meeting several adults shows the spread around them.
Run the honest checklist: 60 to 90 minutes of exercise daily, grooming effort 3/5, keeping costs led by food at about $26 a month, and a 10 to 14 year commitment. The breed quiz compares your answers against every breed on the site, the Alpine Dachsbracke included. Meeting adult dogs of the breed remains the best final check on any written answer, this one included.
The standard range is 13 to 17 inches at the shoulder and 33 to 40 lb, with a typical adult near 36 lb. The growth table on the Alpine Dachsbracke profile shows the expected weight at each age on the way there.
What an Alpine Dachsbracke costs to keep, line by line, from the first puppy year to the lifetime figure.
The Alpine Dachsbracke lifespan in full: what the range means, the life stages and the health checks that protect the top end.
Usually very lightly: both the Shih Tzu and the Poodle are low shedding parents, so the cross typically is too.
Last updated: November 6, 2026