The Mum saw this old picture of me and Jet and Lucy and showed me and so I wanted to post it up. Aren’t we cute? This is from last year and it was the end of September. Today is the beginning of September. The Mum said it was raining on this day last year and that it’ll get cold again soon. Waaa hoo! I like the cold! I like to run around and run around when it’s cold. I have lots more energy then. The Mum doesn’t like it cold very much though. But I like the snow and to run and play in it with Jet and my other brothers and sister.
We are safe in the house when it’s cold out so don’t have to get any online term life insurance because we are happy and healthy. Though the Mum says Lucy is getting a little old. And so is Levi. And we don’t want them to get old even if Lucy and me fight sometimes to be boss girl. I still love her and want her to stay around for a long long time. Levi will be 11 soon and Lucy will be 12 soon. I’m only four and a half so I’m still a young pup, so says the Mum.
I have some agility to do this Sunday and maybe I’ll have video but maybe not. The Mum says no one who can video will come and she’s not sure she wants to ask anyone else. So we will see. I hope to get video so you can see me do my first AKC agility trial!
The Mum says even though I have my Rally Novice title now with AKC that she still wants to teach me lots of fun stuff. So I think that’s great! Here is my second Rally Novice leg up in Idaho Falls last weekend. I had so much fun! The Mum was a dork and didn’t change the batteries in the camera for the last leg and it was my best one yet! She says she’s going to teach me that heeling thing that I haven’t quite figured out yet so we can do off leash stuff too.
Maybe if I get real good I can earn money at this and then the Dad won’t have to do construction employment anymore. But the Mum says there’s no money to be made, only money to be spent. So that’s a bummer! Money lets us do fun stuff and eat yummy treats and things. Though when the Mum shows me what money is, I think it’s dumb because it just smells weird.
So remember how I said I was going to go to Idaho Falls and win lots of ribbons and Qs? Well, I did it! The Mum was so happy with me. I can post some of the videos of me up too they are really good. I won lots of ribbons see!
I qualified all three days I was entered in that Rally Trial. There were no other collies there. No rough collies and no smooth collies. I was the only collie doing AKC rally last weekend. And on the first day I got a 91 out of 100. The second day I got an 89 out of 100, and the last day I got a 95 out of 100! I did so well! I was kinda nervous some of the time but by the last day I was relaxing and even watched the Mum a little bit. Though she didn’t give me any treats in the ring but that’s okay, I got lots outside of the ring.
So this is me with all my ribbons. The Mum said she’s very proud of me and she wants to get more ribbons for me too in the future. I can do it! I am learning lots and having a really fun time doing the Rally!
Okay so guess what? The Mum is taking me to a place called Idaho Falls! I haven’t been on a road trip for a while so I hope I’m not too nervous about it. But the Mum says I’ll be fine because I’ve had like a whole week of resting. She didn’t try to teach me anything for the last three days (isn’t that a whole week?) so she says I’ll be all rested up and ready to go!
I am going with the Mum, Chase, Jet, Aunt Marie, and my sheltie cousins Twist and Dare. Me and Dare get to be in Rally again! It’s AKC rally this time but the Mum says I won’t hardly even know a difference. I just have to do what she says and stay with her and I’ll be fine. She says maybe I’ll even get a title called an RN! Maybe I’ll be a Registered Nurse! Or she really says it’s called Rally Novice so that’d be even more fun!
The Mum is gonna bring her computer so I can blog about it after I do it. I do it Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I need Qs every day to get the RN title. And the Mum says she might even get laptop insurance so that her laptop won’t break while we are up there!
So anyway wish me luck and that I’m not too nervous!
So the Mum tells me that she lost two whole of my posts! She is mean. She says it wasn’t her fault, that it was something about a host change or something and she didn’t know about it and didn’t understand it. But she usually understands everything so I don’t know why she wouldn’t understand this.
So the Mum says I have to post this post again even though I don’t remember much about what I said! But let’s see… I know it was about having resting days. I get tired when the Mum makes me work really hard. And working is hard even though it’s fun at the same time and I get to eat yummy treats like Tuna Brownies. But sometimes I want rest and then to let the mum read about antenna reviews and weird things like that. She likes to watch TV and she also likes to listen to music that takes invisible waves over the radio and she needs an antenna to get that, even though lots of bugs also have antenna on their heads to pick up sounds and they are just kinda gross.
So anyway I get to rest today BUT not tomorrow! I’ll post about that later.
Okay so the Mum said she lost some of my posts and I’m going to type about that again even though I’m typing about it now… because I did that post before I’m doing this post but they need to be on the same days they were on before and the Mum lost the old posts! Bleh. She’s kinda dorky sometimes.
So this is kinda a middle way post with nothing much to say except that my brother Jet likes to play tug with designer ties and he got one of my Dad’s and the Dad didn’t really like it very much! But the Mum laughed and so did I because if the Dad didn’t leave them out, then Jet wouldn’t chew them up!
So the Mum says I need to post one more time about the cool Q that we got in Rally-O. So here is a fun picture of the Mum and me after the trial. And I know that I’m the prettiest and there should have been an award for prettiest but there wasn’t.
Here you can see me with the Ribbon that I won. Mum likes ribbons, but I don’t care much for ribbons. I just like the cookies that I get after I get the Q. And you can see the froggie toy I won for Jet, too. The Mum is really proud of the ribbon and of me and keeps talking about how good I did.
She said I get to go to a place called Idaho Falls later this month to do more Rally-Obedience. This will be an AKC Rally and it should be just similar and the Mum thinks that maybe I can get a title. Then I’d be Tatum Tot Spice CGC RN. RN stands for Rally Novice. The trial is three days long and if we get Qs all three days then I’d have that RN title too. The Mum is excited! I’m just nervous and I hope for lots of cookies! And maybe no dereon because I don’t think I can eat those. I like to eat yummy things, like Tuna Brownies!
So the Mum was way happy last weekend when I got that first letter Q that she says is a really neat thing. I was still kinda nervous but here is the video of me doing the Rally-O and you can see how good I did. The Mum says I still have to walk with her better but when I’m nervous I just kinda don’t want to as much.
So this is my first Qualifying I’ve ever done in anything and the Mum is really happy. I even won a toy. But I don’t really like toys so much so I gave it to Jet. It’s a froggie toy and it makes a weird sound! Jet really likes it and wants to tear the insides out. The froggie needs cheap home insurance so that he might live longer but Mum says he doesn’t have much of a lifespan to expect!
Okay so the Mum took me to do that Rally thing today! And it was kinda fun, but I was a little bit nervous. Here is the video of me doing it. The Mum said I did really super well and she was so happy! I like it when the Mum is happy.
I just kinda had to follow her around and do sits and stands and stays and stuff like that. After we did all these weird things then she told me to lay down for a really long time. And I didn’t want to stay all the way laying down so I got up. And the Mum said that wasn’t so good, so I didn’t get a Q whatever that is. I just know I got treats after. The Mum said that she made sardine brownies for me for tomorrow, I love those! They are good and tasty and smelly too!
So we are going to do it again tomorrow and the Mum hopes we get a Q thing tomorrow, and a ribbon and a toy. And then she said she will take me to Idaho to do some AKC Rally in August. I like to go on trips so that should be fun too. She better bring lots of Sardines and Tunas!
So this is one smooth collie girl that has done Rally now and it’s kinda fun!
So the Mum tells me that tomorrow is the big day. And that she has entered me in the first ASCA Rally trial here in Utah. So I’m kinda nervous because I don’t know what Rally-O really is. And this collie girl hasn’t done it before. But I’m willing to give it a good try! The Mum says all I have to do is walk nice on her left side and stop with her, and turn with her, and make sure I follow her around. So that’s what I’m gonna do.
The Mum hopes to get some videos of me doing it so maybe I’ll post them up tomorrow when I’m done. I did go and do agility today and that was really super fun! I get to do it tomorrow and Sunday too. The Mum says it’s the first thing I’ve ever been in where I can earn a real Q. I just hope I can earn a tuna brownie because those are better for sure!
So the Mum is worried about what to wear. She says she can’t wear just a t-shirt and jean shorts because she is supposed to look nice. And she even gave me and Levi a bath today, and dremmeled our toenails, yuck! Levi is going too. The Mum says he gets jealous because he hasn’t been in a ring in like a year so it’ll make him happy to go back in and do some novice Rally-O. He has done it before though in AKC so he’s not nervous at all. He has a title called an RE in his Rally-O so he’s an expert!
Wish me lucks! I hope I don’t need any opiate detox when I’m done, because I’m so nervous that I have to have some dugs!
Hi I'm Tatum and welcome to my blog! I'm a smooth sable collie, the prettiest kind! The Mum said a blog would be a fun thing for me to do, I can tell everyone how I'm gonna learn some things called agility, and obedience, and flyball.. and go on walks and play in the park and bark at the TV and lots of fun stuff!
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Hi I'm Tatum and welcome to my blog! I'm a smooth sable collie, the prettiest kind! The Mum said a blog would be a fun thing for me to do, I can tell everyone how I'm gonna learn some things called agility, and obedience, and flyball.. and go on walks and play in the park and bark at the TV and lots of fun stuff!
