For those of you who aren’t on FB or haven’t heard yet…there is a new member of the Dragondogs.  Moxie.

Moxie is our first ACD aka Australian Cattle Dog aka Blue Heeler.  Tracy Custer evaluated her and sent her info out into the disc dog network about an awesome Frisbeast.  Abby knew that I was looking for a new dog, so she sent me the link with a note that said… here is your dog.  It went kinda backwards from there.  Some other guy wanted her too – so I made the patient and responsible choice after a really cool chat with Apryl … I’ll wait another 6 months until Leila is a bit more established.  The dog would have another great disc home to go to so no worries.

The day after – or maybe it was a couple days after – I made that very responsible and patience choice, I get a message saying that the guy never claimed her and she still needed a home.  Oh well now that just changed the whole game!  The rest of the story is not that interesting – we got her and a nice lady drove her down here from St. Louis to Tampa.

The next morning it started – we got right to play cause Lord knows…there wasn’t another option for Moxie.  She was ready to go.  Her growth has been ridiculous – stupid – insane.  I’ll let you see for yourself just the difference between day 1 (session 2) and day 2 (session 2).  This girl can jam.  Enjoy!

Sasha needs it more for her health, she is older and lazie rthese days, and Lilli gets most of the exercise opportunities, and the treadmill will help with days when Lilli is hyper and ready to play and we can’t or won’t go outside.

We ran with both of the dogs 3 times so far.  On her third run, we gave Lilli a shot at running on her own, without a leash.  She ran for several minutes with no leash, only Andrea in front of her giving encouragement.  Once we found the right speed for the dogs and gave them lots of encouragement, they both seemed to get in a work mode and settle in for a good jog.

After a few more sessions I expect Lilli will be great at running on her own.  So far we have only tried a jog, I need to research others who have use dthe treadmill to see what the safety issues are, what speeds and variations are recommended.  A potential side effect would be to build Lilli’s endurance, jogging in a tight space, etc.