Thread: Korthals Griffon

the breed mirrors its sister breed Deutsch Stichelhaar, the cross breeding was an american idea and i think it split the breed club apart, at the time they were calling for blood from all over the world for some clarity, we were asked for blood and swabs by a cesky breeder in that process, i would guess they were looking for GR motherlines from the old type gwp we had here, [those big shaggy hair balls] in europe the breed survived but are not in huge numbers, It is very rare to even see a Drahthaar pedigree with the griffon motherline... the stichelhaar [cesky fousek] line is very strong.
larger population avoids the issue, the cesky will never grow to anything other than a minor breed, it grew here for the lack of decent working lines in many of the breeds at the time, then got caught out with bottle necking and lack of new blood.
any introduction of any new breed would be wise to look at the ups and downs of the cesky fousek, like the korthals you would need the healthly overseas gene pool [and deep pockets] to back it up... and i'm not sure the korthals is in better shape than the cesky fousek.