People Keep Trespassing on Mission Working Dogs Property in Oxford, ME

Christy Gardner is the Founder and President of Mission Working Dogs, an organization that trains dogs to become service dogs. Christy is a double amputee The training facility is located on Moxie's Place, a road named after Christy's beloved first service dog, Moxie who passed away in 2022.

Christy served as a Sergeant in the United States Army Military Police in Asia and suffered an injury in 2006 that caused her to lose both her legs below the knee. She went on to create Mission Working Dogs, a facility to train dogs to become service animals and pair them with someone in need of not just a service dog, but a best friend.

Moxie's place is a private road that leads to the Oxford facility and has "no trespassing" signs posted along the road. But those signs have not stopped some people from walking down the privately owned road.

The reason the road is private is explained best by a comment on the Oxford Hills Community Facebook page left by Norma Lynn Heidrich Crowell who reposted the photo that Christy shared earlier:

Hey Folks , please pass the word that Moxie's Place in Oxford in not a public road. It is a private road that leads to the Mission Working Dogs Campus where dogs are being trained as service dogs, therapy dogs and search dogs. People continue to ignore the signs stating private property. This can disrupt the good work that Christy Gardner and her volunteers are trying to accomplish. People are constantly driving down the road, riding their bikes or walking down ignoring over a dozen signs. What will it take for people to be respectful ?

Training dogs to be service animals can take up to two years and the last thing young pups need are distractions of random people nearby. So spread the word. Good work is being done on Moxie's Place Road. Obey the signs and find another public way that you can walk and enjoy before the snow flies.