To find out if some dog breeds may be more prone to getting lost than others, Business Insider asked Whistle — a company that makes a GPS and activity-tracking dog collar — for help, and it looked at data gathered from the roughly 150,000 Americans who've used its products (like all data, this set has limitations — see our notes at the end).
Their lost-dog data comes from the Whistle app's option to start a "tracking event" — a feature that's purpose-built to help locate lost dogs with real-time GPS signal.
Here are the 10 dog breeds most likely to run away from their owners in the US, ranked by median tracking events per month. When the median was identical, we used the mean as a secondary ranking method.
And don't miss our lists of the 43 most active and 42 laziest dog breeds, too.
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