how fast is a dog??

[funbobby]

whilst watching send in the dogs last night i heard one handler say his dog can do 100m in 4 secs! now i know some dogs are quick but not that bloody fast! is it that they are quick off the mark or is the bloke talking it up a bit?

[Tycho]

Ask Taita.

[BoRED S2upid]

Not far off id say that Bolt fella can do 100m in 8 or something? im sure a greyhound could catch him if he had a dead rabbit around his waist.

[patmahe]

If my sums are correct (and theres every chance they aren't) thats about 56mph. I think I remember hearing that a good greyhound will do 45mph so I reckon he's telling tall tails.

[Scott330ci]

Indeed

Talking shiat - zu

[lazyitus]

A dog will run faster if you whippet.

[off_again]

Google is your friend:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_fast_can_a_dog_run

First response and seems OK if you ask me. I watched the same programme and they said that a Police Dog can do 30MPH, so its plausible, though someone else will have to work out the maths - I am just to thick....

[Piersman2]

BoRED S2upid said:

Not far off id say that Bolt fella can do 100m in 8 or something? im sure a greyhound could catch him if he had a dead rabbit around his waist.

Wouldn't the dead rabbit somewhat impede the dog if tied around it's waist?

[off_again]

BoRED S2upid said:

Not far off id say that Bolt fella can do 100m in 8 or something? im sure a greyhound could catch him if he had a dead rabbit around his waist.

Even if correct or not, even Bolt will struggle to out run a dog, though he might get the lead on a 100m sprint. Unfortunately the fastest man in the world cannot keep this up for long and the dog will get him anyway. So if Bolt is screwed then that pretty much eliminates 99.9999% of the human race. Game over...

[TheGroover]

off_again said:

Google is your friend:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_fast_can_a_dog_run

First response and seems OK if you ask me. I watched the same programme and they said that a Police Dog can do 30MPH, so its plausible, though someone else will have to work out the maths - I am just to thick....

30 mph = 48kph. At 48 kph you will cover 1km in 75 seconds, so 100M in 7.5 seconds. Quick, but not as quick as claimed!!

[Digger]

Doing the maths of a greyhound running at 45mph (72km/h) it would be running at 20m per second when at full pelt?

Edited by Digger on Wednesday 12th August 12:45

[sadako]

I thought greyhounds were much faster, capable of 50 or 60mph...

[Penny-lope]

Tycho said:

Ask Taita.

But beware he may attack

[otolith]

I exercised a (working) greyhound for someone once. I was surprised at just how quick it was. It also had an annoying habit of running past at full tilt with inches to spare - wouldn't like to be run into by one of them.

[G_T]

Well a glance at the greyhound form states the average time around the 470m Belle vue track as just under 30 seconds.

So 15m/s would be a good estimate.

When you take into acount the curvature of the track, the fact dogs can take rubbish lines and the initially acceleration from the trap, they are damned quick.

ETA: That's an average of 33mph according to google.

Edited by G_T on Wednesday 12th August 13:10

[CraigW]

sadako said:

I thought greyhounds were much faster, capable of 50 or 60mph...

thats cheetah speed isnt it? Didnt think anything else came close

[funbobby]

so 4 secs for a big gsh is pretty much rubbish then, saying that would not fancy one of those police dogs on my case, one bloke on there last night had a nicely chewed arm for his trouble.

[Simpo Two]

off_again said:

even Bolt will struggle to out run a dog, though he might get the lead on...

Woof woof!

[G_T]

funbobby said:

so 4 secs for a big gsh is pretty much rubbish then, saying that would not fancy one of those police dogs on my case, one bloke on there last night had a nicely chewed arm for his trouble.

4 seconds to 100 metres?

If professionally trained and bred greyhounds only manage 60 metres in 4 seconds I think you can safely say it's complete bks.

[Jasandjules]

The answer is quicker than a man.

I'd say one of my dogs can, when he wants, clear 200 about yards in 9-10 seconds - because he did it one day when he spotted a deer.....