In the Dogs list, every dog carries a state for the day: Ready, Tired, Resting, Not assessed yet… and "Fresh, but untrained". That last one lit up on dogs that went out four times a week. A musher saw it on a dog the very day they had harnessed it.
Why it was wrong
The badge read the "fitness" MushMate computes for each dog, meaning the training base built up over several weeks. It lit up below a fixed threshold. That threshold came from the plan's starting benchmarks, designed for sled seasons. With an ordinary volume, a few outings of 5 to 20 km a week behind a kart or a bike, fitness stays below it. The badge then called almost every dog "untrained".
What changes for you
The badge is now called "No outing in 14 days". It lights up when the dog has had no training session, no race and no other activity for 14 days, today included.
You can check it at a glance. A dog missing from the "Last 14 days" tile on the dashboard is exactly a dog that carries this badge.
Same rule and same word everywhere: the dashboard, the web Dogs list and the phone's Dogs screen.
The other states do not change. "Resting" and "Tired" still come first: a tired dog stays "Tired", even if it has not been out for a long time.
What your teammates see
Nothing more than before. Whoever already sees the Dogs list sees the same badge. The date of the last outing is not shown on the dog's card. On a breeding kennel, the training states stay hidden, as before.
What the badge does not do
These limits are deliberate. They are not features postponed for later.
- It does not measure training level. A dog that went out yesterday after three months off reads "Ready". The badge answers "has it been out recently?", not "is it fit?". Each dog's fitness curve and load indicator are still there for that question.
- It cannot be adjusted. Fourteen days for the whole kennel.
- It does not guess. If MushMate cannot read the outings, the dog shows "Not assessed yet" rather than a random badge.
Two choices that may surprise you
A calendar rule rather than a fitness threshold. You might think lowering the threshold would have been enough. But any fitness threshold depends on volume, rig and season: it would have been wrong somewhere else, on another kennel. A rule you can check against your own calendar is never silently wrong.
Fourteen days, not seven. A week of rest is part of a normal season. At seven days, the badge would light up after every ordinary break and end up meaning nothing. Fourteen days is also the window of the recent-outings tile: the two read together.