A typical Brussels Griffon tops out around 16.8 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 23.11 mph. 5.9 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Brussels Griffon would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 102 Brussels Griffons, a typical Brussels Griffon tops out at 16.8 mph, and half of them run faster than 17.3 mph. That makes the Brussels Griffon the 197th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
None has reached 25 mph yet, but plenty of Brussels Griffons love the chase anyway.
Among the most popular Toy breeds, the typical Brussels Griffon is faster than 3 of 8. The Italian Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 23.5 mph, and the Havanese (16.1 mph) runs closest to the Brussels Griffon. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 6.7 mph gap to the Italian Greyhound is about 3.46 seconds.
Aberglen Straight Up With A Twist holds the fastest consistent run by any Brussels Griffon: 23.11 mph at the Sunshine State Rhodesian Ridgeback Club in Florida on January 17, 2025. That's 100 yards in 8.85 seconds.
AKC's results also show Waski Turnip The Jamz at 24.35 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 20.50 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
On Dash-Hound, the fastest Brussels Griffon is Lestat, with a best of 20.29 mph over 306 logged runs.
Not really, but more are running. In 2023, 30 Brussels Griffons ran Fast CAT, typically at 17.0 mph. In 2025 it was 32 dogs at 16.7 mph.
Florida has the most Brussels Griffon runs, 260 of them, followed by Texas, California, Montana. The fastest Brussels Griffon run in Florida is 23.11 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Brussels Griffon 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.