When people ask me how energetic my dog Oreo is, I tell them about the Block Island bike ride.
I attached Oreo, a pit-bull mix, to my bicycle using a special leash. But instead of leisurely jogging alongside me, she pulled my bike — and 160-pound body — for nearly 8 miles around the island like a tiny nuclear-powered horse. And the next day she was ready for more.
But that's just a fun anecdote.
Are pit bulls really the most active, high-energy dog breeds? What about huskies or malamutes, the great powerhouses of the Iditarod? Or your deranged Boston terrier?
To find out, Tech Insider asked Whistle — a company that makes a GPS and activity-tracking dog collar — what the most active dog breeds are based on the data they see from the roughly 150,000 Americans who've used its products. (Like all data, this set has limitations — see our notes at the end.)
Here are the top 43 of the most active breeds in the US, ranked by average minutes of activity a day.
#43: Great Dane
Active an average of 67.24 minutes a day.
#42: Airedale Terrier
Active an average of 67.26 minutes a day.
#41: Rat Terrier
Active an average of 67.42 minutes a day.
#40: Pit Bull mix
Active an average of 67.74 minutes a day.
#39: Catahoula Leopard Dog
Active an average of 67.88 minutes a day.
#38: Plott Hound
Active an average of 67.97 minutes a day.
#37: Boston Terrier
Active an average of 68.42 minutes a day.
#36: Miniature Dachshund
Active an average of 68.93 minutes a day.
#35: Boxer
Active an average of 69.15 minutes a day.
#34: Alaskan Husky
Active an average of 69.27 minutes a day.
#33: Redbone Coonhound
Active an average of 69.45 minutes a day.
#32: Maltese
Active an average of 69.6 minutes a day.
#31: Bichon Frise
Active an average of 69.61 minutes a day.
#30: Standard Schnauzer
Active an average of 69.98 minutes a day.
#29: Australian Shepherd
Active an average of 70.2 minutes a day.
#28: Poodle mix
Active an average of 70.41 minutes a day.
#27: Standard Poodle
Active an average of 70.51 minutes a day.
#26: Bernese Mountain Dog
Active an average of 70.99 minutes a day.
#26: Samoyed
Active an average of 71.47 minutes a day.
#20: Black and Tan Coonhound
Active an average of 72.06 minutes a day.
#23: Miniature Pinscher
Active an average of 72.85 minutes a day.
#22: Standard Goldendoodle
Active an average of 73.19 minutes a day.
#21: Border Collie
Active an average of 73.26 minutes a day.
#20: English Springer Spaniel
Active an average of 73.78 minutes a day.
#19: Miniature Schnauzer
Active an average of 74.19 minutes a day.
#18: Australian Cattle Dog
Active an average of 74.56 minutes a day.
#17: Jack Russell Terrier
Active an average of 74.65 minutes a day.
#16: Treeing Walker Coonhound
Active an average of 77.31 minutes a day.
#15: Dalmatian
Active an average of 77.85 minutes a day.
#14: German Shepherd
Active an average of 79.31 minutes a day.
#13: Pointer mix
Active an average of 79.73 minutes a day.
#12: Bluetick Coonhound
Active an average of 79.88 minutes a day.
#11: Bloodhound
Active an average of 80.23 minutes a day.
#10: Yorkshire Terrier
Active an average of 84.22 minutes a day.
#9: Doberman Pinscher
Active an average of 84.9 minutes a day.
#8: Alaskan Klee Kai
Active an average of 86.72 minutes a day.
#7: English Setter
Active an average of 88.2 minutes a day.
#6: Vizsla
Active an average of 88.8 minutes a day.
#5: Weimaraner
Active an average of 90.32 minutes a day.
#4: Miniature Australian Shepherd
Active an average of 91.54 minutes a day.
#3: Brittany Spaniel
Active an average of 94.13 minutes a day.
#2: German Shorthaired Pointer
Active an average of 100.78 minutes a day.
#1: Belgian Malinois
Active an average of 102.86 minutes a day.
Note: Dogs under 10 pounds are not well represented on Whistle (the GPS collar is usually too big for them), and the data only includes dogs who were active for more than 14 days in a row (to improve data quality). Testing of a Whistle GPS collar loaned to us by the company also showed it does not record indoor activity, nor can it really distinguish between walking or running (or jumping after cats or bounding through a field like a kangaroo).
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