A typical Otterhound tops out around 18.8 mph in Fast CAT. The fastest one on record ran 23.43 mph. 3.9 mph slower than the typical dog (22.7 mph). Even a typical Otterhound would beat most people in a 100-yard sprint.
Based on the best Fast CAT run of 23 Otterhounds, a typical Otterhound tops out at 18.8 mph, and half of them run faster than 19.7 mph. That makes the Otterhound the 172nd fastest of the 226 breeds that have run Fast CAT.
None has reached 25 mph yet, but plenty of Otterhounds love the chase anyway.
Among the most popular Hound breeds, the typical Otterhound is faster than 1 of 8. The Greyhound is the quickest of the bunch at 32.9 mph, and the Beagle (19.7 mph) runs closest to the Otterhound. Over Fast CAT's 100 yards, the 14.1 mph gap to the Greyhound is about 4.66 seconds.
Ironquest's Freddy The Frog holds the fastest consistent run by any Otterhound: 23.43 mph at the Colonial Schipperke Club in Virginia on June 3, 2023. That's 100 yards in 8.73 seconds.
AKC's results also show Catskill Tax Fraud At Riverspruce at 23.78 mph, but that dog's next-best run is 14.16 mph. A jump that big is usually a timing or typing error, so we flag it rather than crown it.
Pennsylvania has the most Otterhound runs, 147 of them, followed by Maryland, New Jersey, Kentucky. The fastest Otterhound run in Pennsylvania is 21.13 mph.
Any AKC-registered Otterhound over 12 months old can enter, and your dog runs alone down a straight 100 yards. Most dogs figure out the lure fast. Have someone your dog will run to waiting past the finish line, because a dog that stops to check on you can lose a second or two.
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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.