Mandie was adopted by Jesse and Dave in 2001 after she was found roaming the streets in a suburb of Chicago. She started training for flyball right away in 2001, but she was very shy and lacked confidence. It took some work, but soon she built the confidence she needed and competed in her first tournament in Henry, Illinois in 2004.
Mandie is very eager to please her humans, and lives to hang out in the kitchen, which is her favorite place in the house.