AKC Sporting Group · No. 54 in 2025
How to identify a Weimaraner
The Weimaraner is a gray gun dog from Germany, ranked No. 54 by the AKC in 2025. Its color settles it: a solid mouse-gray to silver-gray coat, often paler on the head and ears, with light amber, gray or blue-gray eyes. The coat is short and sleek, and the ears are long.
Field marks
These four marks are the ones the game gives you as clues. They paraphrase or briefly quote the AKC Weimaraner standard.
- Solid “mouse-gray to silver-gray,” usually lighter on the head and ears
- Eyes in “light amber, gray or blue-gray”
- “Long and lobular” ears, slightly folded and set high
- “Short, smooth and sleek” coat with white only as a small chest mark; tail usually docked
Tell them apart
Weimaraner or Vizsla?
Check the color. A Weimaraner is mouse-gray to silver-gray with light amber, gray or blue-gray eyes. A Vizsla is golden rust, and its nose, eyes and eye rims all blend with the coat. The build is similar, so color decides it.
Weimaraner
- Solid “mouse-gray to silver-gray,” usually lighter on the head and ears
- Eyes in “light amber, gray or blue-gray”
- “Long and lobular” ears, slightly folded and set high
- “Short, smooth and sleek” coat with white only as a small chest mark; tail usually docked
- “Golden rust in varying shades”; white only on the forechest and toes
- Nose, lips, eye rims, and eyes all blend with the coat, never a black nose
- “Short, smooth, dense and close-lying” coat
- Thin, silky, long ears with rounded tips; tail traditionally docked by a third, sometimes left natural
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