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Playin’ In The Snow

We finally got some snow to play in! I like snow, it’s all cold and fun and white and fluffy. It keeps me cool when I run around and play with my brother Jet. He likes the snow too but he gets cold so doesn’t stay out with me as long as I’d like. But we do have fun playing in it together!

Sometimes we play so much and get so tired that we need dark circle cream so that we are pretty again!

Do you like the snow? My Mum and Dad don’t mind it too much but they don’t like to drive in it or shovel it off the driveway.  But that’s okay because it’s not really too much this time. We will probably get more, I hope we get more, so we can go to the park and run in it and play with other dogs too!

Want To Go To School?

I don’t really go to school but I do go to lessons! And I also get home schooled in things like agility, obedience, sniffing, playing, and goofing off… oh wait the Mum says those last things aren’t really for learning but I do them anyway!

So anyway I just want to talk about a hooman school for a little bit. Do you like when hoomans go to school? My Dad is going to school and he’s taking Physics an Calcylus and stuff like that, I don’t even know how to pronounce it! But he says it’s fun and is thinking about more school like going to an Organizational leadership masters program where he can learn to master stuff.

So this Lewis school is an online school and you can get a degree called a Master’s Degree in stuff that is really smart people stuff. I don’t think they do an agility Master’s Degree but really they should!  Then I could go too and show all those other students how it’s done.

So anyway that’s a break about schools and things and now back to our regular fun dog stuff!

Five Jumps In A Row

So last Friday and last Sunday the Mum took me to do some agility training. This picture is of me on the way fun A-Frame thingy that I get to climb up and over and then lay down on the bottom side for a cookie treat yummy thing. I do it really well and don’t I look cute up there? The Mum thought it would scare me but nope! I like the A-Frame!

So anyway we did some agility training and we did the jumps, I think I said this a little bit before.  And on Friday I did some of the jumps but thought I’d go around some because that’s easier even if I don’t get treats for it.  But then Sunday we went to the place that usually  makes me really nervous, but it was fun this time! I got to follow a Springer named Ringo around a bit and sniff stuff. Then I did some agility with the Mum and guess what? I did five jumps in a row! The Mum was so proud of me and it was kinda fun really.  So maybe I’ll do more jumps too, jumping over them instead of going around.

The Mum only is having me jump 16″ instead of 20″ like they rules say I should. But she’ll put me in preferred because I am a preferred collie and the best so I get a special jump height!

So the Mum was proud that I did five whole jumps in a row and maybe next time she’ll have me jump more than five and maybe I’ll do all them too!

My Brother and the Computer

This is my little brother Jet and my Dad is teaching him how to use the computer. My Mum and Dad say Jet is the smartest puppy they have ever met. But if they had met me as a puppy, then they would say I was the smartest puppy ever.

Jet goes into the computer room by himself now. We have these anti-doggie gates that block off the kitty room and when Dad is being really nice he lets us in there if we don’t chase the kitties. But Jet goes in there on his own now, just like Chase does. But Chase doesn’t want to learn the computer he just wants to chew bones and sleep on the bed in there. Maybe Chase uses the best anti wrinkle cream so that he won’t look old too, but I think he’s just chewing bones and getting skritches from Dad on the sly.

Jet is my best pal and we love to run and run and run in the yard. And the Mum needs to take pictures of us running some more because it’s fun and I want ya’ll to see!

They Feed Us Too Late!

So for a couple of weeks now the Mum and Dad have been feeding us breakfast and dinner later than usual. It’s really making us mad and we don’t like it!  The Mum says it happens ever year and it’s called something like Daylights Saves Us Time. But we don’t think it saves us time, it just makes us hungry!

The Mum says it’s the same all over the world but I don’t believe her. I think they are just wanting us to be hungry and maybe look at weight loss austin so maybe we’ll run there instead, that’ll get us skinny!

Bleh. Well, I’ll just go bit the Mum in the but to getter to give us food earlier!

Just Us Again

Here’s a picture the Mum took of me, our friend Jezi who came to visit, and my brother Muffit. We even sat still for the photo! We are so good. We didn’t stay very long, though… it’s really hard to stay still when you want to play and run around and chew on things!

Our house is kinda quiet with just us seven. You might say… seven is a lot! But we do really have a quiet house. And we are all calm ’cause we get to do lots of fun things and have visitors and go out and stuff. We don’t need any weight loss pills because we get lots of running around to do. But we also sleep a lot during the day. And the Mum says that we bug her if we bark too much. We do like to go outside and bark, and I’m teaching Jet how much fun it is!

I’m A Lazy Chewer

The Mum got these really yummy big chewies that she calls Bully Sticks. Mmmm they are so yummy! So I like to lay on the couch and chew on mine. It lasts a really long time and I usually don’t like it when the Mum says everyone is done and takes them all away! But we get to chew on them for a long time and that is super pawesome! And I really love to lay on the comfy blankets on the couch when I chew. We have so many comfy beds and blankets to lay on it’s just really super nice.

Oh and yesterday the Mum took me to an agility place and we did some agilities. It was fun too. There was no plasma mounts there but the A Frame was there and the Dog Walk and lots of jumps. I’m not too crazy about jumps though. The Mum says she has some ideas to convince me that they are more fun to go over than to go around. I dunno though. I like the A Frame and the Dog Walk and the Teeter much better than the jumps!

We’ll see if she can convince me the jumps are fun too, though!

My Friend Jezi

Hey so this is my friend Jezi who is visiting us for a while! Do you think she looks like a collie? The Mum was told she was a collie. Or maybe a collie mix. But the Mum doesn’t think she looks much like me really. She looks more like a German Shepherd Dog and a Golden Retriever. Or something else like that. And her ears are funny because one stands up and one flops over. The stand up one makes her look smart like me!

She likes to play with toys a little bit but Jet keeps stealing them from her and she doesn’t try to get them back. He’s kinda mean that way sometimes but he just wants to play.

Jezi is staying with us until this Saturday or so when her Mom and Dad come back from a place that’s far away called Italy. Maybe they do Insurance Job Searching over there I don’t know I have never been and I like doing stuff right around here anyway!

The Mum is still sick but she finally got the camera out anyway. I hope she feels better soon so we can do fun agility stuff more!