Faster than any other breed here. Racing Greyhounds can hit roughly 40 miles per hour over a brief sprint; the whole frame is built for chasing quarry by sight at full stretch. The surprise is what follows: Greyhounds are sprinters rather than stayers, needing only 30 to 60 minutes of exercise a day, and most happily spend the remaining hours asleep on something soft.
Dental care matters disproportionately in this breed, so tooth brushing joins the routine seriously rather than optionally. The real care list belongs to the breed's build: soft bedding for bony joints, coats in cold weather, and nail trims kept short on long, elegant feet, per the care guidance. Owners trade grooming hours for sofa management entirely.
Every answer on this page traces back to the breed's record: the same size, temperament, exercise and health facts set out in full on the Greyhound profile, linked below.
The temperament record reads: Graceful, gentle, independent and quiet at home. At 2 out of 5 for energy, the Greyhound asks for its 30 to 60 daily minutes without bouncing off the walls in between.
One more anchor from the record: with strangers the breed reads Reserved with strangers, and with other dogs, Usually good with dogs; both verdicts colour the answers on this page.
Size context from the growth table: 4 months at about 17 to 22 lb, 9 months at about 41 to 54 lb, 24 months at about 60 to 80 lb mark the Greyhound's first year, against an adult standard of 60 to 80 lb. The Hound group is where the record files the Greyhound; its home ground is England.
The stranger test summarises the social side: rated Reserved with strangers, the Greyhound meets the world as this page describes. Households should choose with that dog, not an imagined one, in mind, and the Greyhound profile shows the real animal in full. More questions about the breed are answered from the same record on the Greyhound profile and its sibling question pages.
Owners who do well with this breed tend to share one habit: they planned the dog's day as deliberately as their own, and the dog repaid the planning with an easy temperament.
Every breed carries a short list of conditions it sees more often than average, and the Greyhound, living 10 to 13 years, is no exception. The profile's health record names them with notes; screening breeding stock for those conditions is the buyer's strongest protection. Write down your household's non negotiables before visiting puppies; a Greyhound at eight weeks old is engineered by nature to overrule lists made afterwards.
The record scores grooming effort at 3/5 and shedding at 3/5 for the short smooth fine coat. The coat question pages for the Greyhound break the routine down week by week; the grooming planner turns it into a schedule. The full record behind these answers sits on the Greyhound profile, including the growth and health tables.
The record's verdict is With enough exercise. Suitability turns on the daily routine more than the floor plan: an exercised Greyhound, given its 30 to 60 minutes, settles in small spaces, while the same dog left idle in a large house becomes the problem.
Coat questions for the Greyhound: how much hair, how much work and what the routine really looks like.
How much exercise a Greyhound needs, what fills the minutes best and how training doubles as exercise.
A Ibizan Hound question answered from the breed's own record: temperament, workload, costs and daily life.
Last updated: November 4, 2026