{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_pointer_dog","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_pointer_dog\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Pointer — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale) official breed-standard factual data for Pointer, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/pointer_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 9\n  passed: 9\n  date: 2026-08-05\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_pointer_dog/01_companion_breed_standard_pointer_dog.md\nsource_document: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\n  title: \"Pointer — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\n  url: \"https://www.akc.org\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-02\"\n  ref: \"Official breed standards (factual data points + section outline extracted verbatim)\"\n  doc_type: \"official kennel-club breed standards\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: paraphrase\ncopyright_note: \"Sources (AKC/FCI breed-standard texts) are not openly licensed; per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3 every claim is a paraphrased derived fact summary (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten), not a verbatim quotation.\"\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:kennel-club-breed-standard\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-05\n---\n\n# Pointer — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Origin and group: a British gun dog (English Pointer); AKC Sporting group; under FCI rules it sits in Group 7, the pointing dogs, and within Section 2.1 for British and Irish pointers and setters, with a working trial.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Size: AKC dogs 25 to 28 in / 55 to 75 lb, bitches 23 to 26 in / 44 to 65 lb; FCI height at withers dogs 63 to 69 cm, bitches 61 to 66 cm.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Coat and colour: short, dense, smooth coat with a sheen; AKC colours are liver, lemon, black and orange, either with white or solid; FCI adds lemon/white, orange/white, liver/white, black/white plus self colours and tricolours. The nose is black or brown in dark colours, lighter in pale shades.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Build: compact, powerful and graceful with a noble head carried proudly, pronounced stop, deep chest reaching the elbow, strong slightly arched loin, and a tail thicker at the root tapering to a fine point, not beyond the hock, carried near the back line without curl.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Temperament: an even, alert, congenial and dignified companion that is never timid; FCI describes it as aristocratic, kind and even in disposition.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Faults and penalties: a tail longer than the hock or docked is penalised; a hackney gait is faulted; a cat-foot is a fault; FCI treats any departure from the standard as a fault graded by its severity.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Disqualifications (FCI): an aggressive or overly shy dog, or any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormality; males should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended.\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Pointer — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Pointer — breed standard (AKC & FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://www.akc.org","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/pointer_combined.txt"},"source_document":"AKC (American Kennel Club) & FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/pointer_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":620,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}