A typical Bichon Frise tops out around 16.8 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 22.09 mph. 5.9 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Bichon Frise would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 114 Bichon Frises, a typical Bichon Frise tops out at 16.8 mph, and half of them run faster than 17.4 mph. That makes the Bichon Frise the 198th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
None has reached 25 mph yet, but plenty of Bichon Frises love the chase anyway.
Among the most popular Non-Sporting breeds, the typical Bichon Frise is the slowest of the 9. The Dalmatian is the quickest of the bunch at 25.1 mph, and the French Bulldog (17.4 mph) runs closest to the Bichon Frise. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 8.3 mph gap to the Dalmatian is about 4.04 seconds.
Musicbox My Little Ball Of Fire holds the fastest consistent run by any Bichon Frise: 22.09 mph at the Sunshine State Rhodesian Ridgeback Club in Florida on January 11, 2026. That's 100 yards in 9.26 seconds.
AKC's results also show Sassy Sophie Rocks The House at 23.33 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 19.88 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Not really, but more are running. In 2021, 27 Bichon Frises ran Fast CAT, typically at 16.0 mph. In 2025 it was 45 dogs at 16.6 mph.
Florida has the most Bichon Frise runs, 439 of them, followed by Washington, Minnesota, Georgia. The fastest Bichon Frise run in Florida is 23.33 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Bichon Frise 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.