Patent ID: 7536977

Claim:
An animal exercising apparatus comprising: a treadmill, said treadmill further comprising a parallelepiped platform having two side walls, a front wall, a rear wall and a hollow interior base; a raised dish platform incorporated within said platform at a rear wall end of said platform a dish removably disposed within said platform; a conveyor pulley system disposed within said interior base further comprising: a pair of first rollers rotatably attached to side walls at one end of said interior base; a second roller rotatably attached to the opposite end of said interior base; a motor assembly disposed within said interior base between said first rollers and said second roller and underneath a continuous conveyor belt, said motor assembly being electrically powered; a continuous conveyor belt disposed between, over and in direct contact with said first roller and second roller for supporting said conveyor belt, said first rollers being rotatable by said motor assembly and thereby causing said conveyor belt to move around said first rollers and second roller; a switch for controlling said motor assembly; and a timer for controlling said motor assembly; a four-sided cage removably disposed over and around said treadmill; a door on one side of the cage; and a latch on the door.