A typical Glen of Imaal Terrier tops out around 17.1 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 22.31 mph. 5.6 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Glen of Imaal Terrier would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 66 Glen of Imaal Terriers, a typical Glen of Imaal Terrier tops out at 17.1 mph, and half of them run faster than 17.8 mph. That makes the Glen of Imaal Terrier the 194th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
1 Glen of Imaal Terrier has topped 25 mph, but none has reached 30 yet.
Among the most popular Terrier breeds, the typical Glen of Imaal Terrier is faster than 1 of 8. The American Staffordshire Terrier is the quickest of the bunch at 24.0 mph, and the Cairn Terrier (17.8 mph) runs closest to the Glen of Imaal Terrier. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 6.9 mph gap to the American Staffordshire Terrier is about 3.45 seconds.
Ber-D-Mar's Bridget For Abberann holds the fastest consistent run by any Glen of Imaal Terrier: 22.31 mph at the Mid-Jersey Labrador Retriever Club in New Jersey on May 1, 2021. That's 100 yards in 9.17 seconds.
AKC's results also show Bregorrey Sovereign Storm at 25.73 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 21.64 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 Glen of Imaal Terrier is Judah, with a best of 20.41 mph over 63 logged runs.
Glen of Imaal Terriers come in more than one Fast CAT height group. 19 measured under 12 inches and averaged 14.9 mph; 46 measured 12 to 18 inches and averaged 18.0 mph. Smaller dogs earn extra points per mph toward their titles, so the shorter ones rack up titles faster.
Florida has the most Glen of Imaal Terrier runs, 159 of them, followed by Tennessee, New York, Washington. The fastest Glen of Imaal Terrier run in Florida is 25.73 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Glen of Imaal Terrier 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.