A typical Affenpinscher tops out around 15.6 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 20.00 mph. 7.1 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Affenpinscher would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 17 Affenpinschers, a typical Affenpinscher tops out at 15.6 mph, and half of them run faster than 16.4 mph. That makes the Affenpinscher the 211th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
None has reached 25 mph yet, but plenty of Affenpinschers love the chase anyway.
Among the most popular Toy breeds, the typical Affenpinscher is the slowest of the 9. The Italian Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 23.5 mph, and the Pomeranian (15.6 mph) runs closest to the Affenpinscher. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 7.9 mph gap to the Italian Greyhound is about 4.45 seconds.
Tamarin Tak holds the fastest consistent run by any Affenpinscher: 20.00 mph at the Galveston County Kennel Club in Texas on October 29, 2023. That's 100 yards in 10.23 seconds.
AKC's results also show Ferlin's Black Jaguar at 20.56 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 19.23 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Texas has the most Affenpinscher runs, 78 of them, followed by Florida, California, Colorado. The fastest Affenpinscher run in Texas is 20.56 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Affenpinscher over 12 months old can enter, small dogs earn twice the points per mph toward their titles, and the crowd always cheers loudest for the little ones. Have someone your dog will run to waiting past the finish line.
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Speeds from AKC Fast CAT results. Photographers: spotted your work? Tell us at [email protected] and we'll credit it or take it down.