A typical Japanese Chin tops out around 15.2 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 18.56 mph. 7.5 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Japanese Chin would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 21 Japanese Chins, a typical Japanese Chin tops out at 15.2 mph, and half of them run faster than 15.8 mph. That makes the Japanese Chin the 214th fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
None has reached 25 mph yet, but plenty of Japanese Chins love the chase anyway.
Among the most popular Toy breeds, the typical Japanese Chin 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 Japanese Chin. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 8.3 mph gap to the Italian Greyhound is about 4.76 seconds.
We-Syng Chrischin Bruce The Conquerer holds the fastest consistent run by any Japanese Chin: 18.56 mph at the Murfreesboro Obedience Training Club in Tennessee on October 11, 2023. That's 100 yards in 11.02 seconds.
AKC's results also show Touche's Know How To Njoy at 19.26 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 14.97 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Texas has the most Japanese Chin runs, 122 of them, followed by Tennessee, Colorado, Ohio. The fastest Japanese Chin run in Texas is 16.93 mph.
Short legs don't stop anyone from having a blast. Any AKC-registered Japanese Chin 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.