Moxy

Painfully shy. That is one way to describe Moxy. At least, she is shy with me and most strangers. She will fall all over herself to get Jenn to play with her, though. Moxy may be shy but she knows what a harness looks like and she know what it means when they come out, so she will let me put one on her because there is nothing she would rather do than run with the team. It would be fair to say that Moxy is not the most tolerant dog in the yard when it comes to poor behaviour on the gangline. If we have a dog that is misbehaving or acting up when we are hooking up the dogs for a run, we put them beside Moxy who isn't afraid to set the offending dog straight.

In many ways, Moxy is like that person at work who shows up, does their work and goes home. No chatting around the drink cooler, no beer after work with friends, she probably brings a brown bag lunch and eats it at her desk. When we are on the trail and we have to stop for some reason, Moxy waits. She will quietly eat snow or lay down but she is ready at a moments notice. And her shyness doesn't extend to getting a snack on the trail, either. She will nearly take off fingers if I am not careful and toss it to her.

Moxy comes from Brian McDougall and is the sister of Mouse.