Meet Susan. This two-year-old Maltipoo lives with her owners near the Holmes Run trail in Alexandria. She frequents the trail in cooler weather, carrying sticks at least twice her body length. People like to describe Susan as being full of personality, while her owners maintain that she’s too smart for her own good. She spends her days at work with her owner at his personal training studio, and works on her own fitness doing dog agility for fun.

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