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Yum!
The Mum says I’m picky when it comes to eating and I think she is weird because she eats stuff that is just not food! But the other day the Dad went to the store and he brought things like this home.

And so the Mum was eating one and it was dripping all over and I managed to stick my nose on her plate when she was on the couch. And so I sniffed at it and the Mum said I couldn’t have my nose on her plate, but if I sat I could try one. And so I sat and she put one in front of my nose and I sniffed, then I licked, then I ate it!

It was good! The Mum says it’s the first and only fruit that I like. Well whatever a fruit is, this one is good! You can keep the icky carrots and other veggies though, I don’t like them. Lettuce is also nasty. Bleh. But I like Mango! I even like the dried kind.

So on Monday the Mum was working from home.. and she was talking on the plastic thingy a bit, then around lunch time she drove away and was gone for about four hours! That was a long time!

When she came back… look what she brought with! She says it’s a minivan.. a Hoooyunday or something like that. And it’s for all us dogs so that we’ll be safe in our cozy crates in the back!

So far there’s not much in there, but the Mum says over the next few weeks she’ll be filling it up with our dog junk, and maybe some cat supplies too. And we have a lot of stuff! This picture is of me and Muffit in our crates in the back. Though my cloth crate will be replaced by a wire crate so I can feel the cool air that comes out of the ceiling in the back! That’s super neat, no more being too hot for us!

The Mum took us in the van that day to get our toenails trimmed. Ooo we hate that. Muffit hates it more than me and he screams and screams. I just tuck up my tail. But I got to play with Cami, our new border collie girl friend who’s gonna do flyball with us too, she came from an icky place called a shelter, that the Mum says is just as bad as where I came from. So we are glad Cami is happy! The Mum needs to take some pictures of her and me playing!New Wheels!

Today the Mum took me outside and put up some jumps and we were going to work, but I really didn’t want to. I won’t even still tell her why! It was hot though, and there was some poop smell on the grass that I didn’t like. So I just wanted to go back inside and not play with the Mum over the jumps. Hrmph!

So the Mum said if no jumps, then maybe some sits and downs in the grass. But I didn’t want to do that either! And the Mum said I have to lie down ’cause she’s not going to have any wimpy collie girl who won’t lay down on icky things. BAH! I didn’t like that at all. But I did lay down even though I didn’t want to and I ate all her stupid treats because they were good. But I’m mad at the Mum now and she was kinda mad at me.

So poop on her! But I still kinda like her anyway and she never would hurt me though she says I have to know that she is the boss and I’m not even though I really think I should be the boss of her. Oh well, maybe it’s good not being the boss of the hoomans ’cause that’s a lot of responsibility anyway. I can just be the boss of Muffit and that’s a good thing ’cause I’m still tough!

We had a fun trip! The Mum wasn’t going to take me… well, she was at first, then she wasn’t, then she was again! Yay! I’m glad she did because I have lots of fun and I make her happy, because I’m just so happy, I make everyone happy!

I even made the birthday girl happy! It was Echo’s birthday, she’s a Belgian Malinois and she had a birthday. So they passed out birthday hats and the Mum put one on me. Well, I wasn’t too crazy about the birthday hat, because it felt funny, but after I had it on and the Mum gave me lots of treats it wasn’t so bad so I let it stay on. Plus, I was pretty darn cute in it, don’t you think?

Though the hat wasn’t quite pink enough, it still had a little bit of pink on it. And Echo had a really pretty pink dress! You can see it in one of the next pictures down. It’s so pretty. And the Tiara was pretty, soo. The Mum said I’m so much like a princess that I really should have my own tiara, so maybe I’ll get one for this Christmas!

You know.. it’s almost been a year since I came to live here in Utah from Houston. And the Mum says I’ll get a Gotcha Day Pizza! I can’t wait!

And there was a really pretty river called the Snake River (icky name!) that ran by our camp ground. We had to drive to it, but once we got there, it was nice. Chase really wanted to chase the ducks, but he got to swim after an old icky flip flop so he was happy about that. And I wanted to sleep on some crib bedding after ’cause I was tired! Have you ever seen crib bedding? It’s super soft and super nice and you might want to check it out! Especially since these guys have such fun colors to chose from! And great quality too!

And see here, this is me sleeping in the trailer. It’s only the second time I ever slept in our trailer. It pops up so the Mum calls it a pop up. We went camping in it once before and had a really fun time. This time the Mum put an xpen around it so we couldn’t get out. But I’m smart, and I figured out how to push it open when the Mum and aunt Marie didn’t latch it, and I’d run out and go ‘Woo Hoo!’ and hop like a bunny ’cause I was free! But it was fun in the trailer too.

So the above picture is of the birthday party and you can see Echo in her pretty dress! She is such a pretty Malinois, I like Malinois and I love to play with them and I wish I could play with more of them! And there were lots of dogs at her party and they all looked like so much fun to play with!

And then this picture above is when we were at the campground in the trailer. Not only were Levi and Chase with, but also Twist and Rogue! I love them and wish they would play with me! But Twist wanted to play with Chase, and Chase doesn’t like to play with anyone except me and Muffit. So the Mum had to watch to make sure Chase didn’t show too many teeth to Twist. But they are fun shelties and I like to play with them!

So that’s all I have to say about our trip! Levi didn’t get any Qs and Chase got one but the Mum said Chase didn’t do good enough so she pulled him from Saturday and Sunday. Rogue didn’t get any Qs either (she didn’t enter like me!) but Twist got two Qs! He won the whole weekend he did such a good job. Yay Twist!

The Mum is a dork! She didn’t bring the power cable to our camping spot we did Obedience to and so we couldn’t get online At All. She had the laptop and she has the wireless internet but then the hoomans decided to watch obedience videos instead of letting me blog. Bleh.

So I haven’t been online for a while but I am now. And I have some fun pictures and I went to a birthday party of a Malinois and had to wear a dumb hat and I’ll post a picture of that later. The Mum says we are tired now and must go to sleep and so off to sleep I go!

Maybe next time she’ll take me to some Vegas vacations ’cause she’s been there before and I want to go with next time! But she says next vacation is to St. George Utah but that’s fun too!

The Mum took me, Chase and Muffit to an agility trial on Saturday. Man we go to these a lot! But the Mum says in the winter we don’t go to as many. We didn’t get to run around much because some hoomans were playing a game called baseball in our regular run around area. Didn’t they know that’s for dogs to run around? I guess it’s set up for hoomans to play that ball game, but really it should have been for us.

But me and Muffit got to go out and visit people and dogs. And the Mum put me up on a table so I tucked up my tail in case it was going to be scary, and a guy called a judge measured where my shoulders were. But they are always in the same place so not sure what that was about. He said I was twenty inches at the shoulder, and the Mum said that was good, so I guess that was good, whatever!

Then we came home and today we are mostly sleeping… the Mum went to go for a swim at her friend’s house but I didn’t want to go, ’cause I don’t swim! Hrm. But we get to go to flyball practice tonight and that’ll be fun. Though the Mum is fiddling with her tv mount for her big flat TV and that’s scary, we hope she doesn’t drop it!

Today is a sleepy Saturday. Though we do hope more people will sign up for our EntreDog! I think it’s super fun idea!

The Mum took Chase and Levi this morning and I didn’t get to go with. That is so mean! She said since Chase is doing agility tomorrow and Levi is doing obedience next weekend, they needed the work. But my friend Bindy the Vizla was there and I didn’t get to play with her! That is just so mean!

I get to go to the agility tomorrow, though. It’s USDAA and I get to get a measurement again and maybe it’ll be one of my last ones. Yay! The Mum says I’m really a perfect size tall, I am about 20 and 3/8″ tall and that’s good for all the agility places. Though I bet I can jump higher than she thinks!

So today we get to rest, then tomorrow we get to do agility, then Sunday we get to do obedience in the morning and flyball in the evening, and then next weekend we are getting to go to Idaho Falls for a fun Obedience trial! I will get to do it too someday! My brother Levi is in open and he is playing with a dumbbell and that is just weird. I don’t like dumbbells much! But the Mum says she’ll put peanut butter on it so that I’ll like it better! But if I eat too much peanut butter I’ll need to read some diet pill reviews so I don’t get chubby!

(EDIT: bahaahaa it’s only Friday! The Mum is off work Friday’s now so we are all messed up!)

Okay so I’ve been reading everydoggies’ blogs lately and I’ve found some really super neat ones and I love going back and finding what is going on in all my new doggie friends’ lives! And the only drawback to this is that I really do wish I could come play with everydoggie and bite everyhooman in the butt but maybe I can do that virtually on the computer!

Anyway a while ago the Mum signed us up for this thingamagic widget image exchange gizmo called Entrecard. You can see it up top on my sidebar over there —> to the right. So I can go visit other doggie blogs and drop my fun pink card on you, and you can come drop your not-so-pink card on me, and then we get credits and we get to read each other’s cool blogs.

And I’ve noticed some doggy blogs have Entrecards and some don’t. For those that do, please join the EntreDog blogroll! It’s a blogrolling blog roll and if you put this little picture of Muffit on your website, and the blogroll, then I’ll add you to the blogroll and we can all look at each other sites and drop cards and stuff!

If you don’t have an Entrecard account then if you get one you can join us all! And no I’m not getting anything for this… I just have been having a whole heck of a lot of fun using the Entrebar lately and if more of my doggie friends were on Entrecard then I could use the bar to come visit you and give you a pink card!

So I’d love for you to join up and join the blog roll and have this fun picture of Muffit on your site! And if you click the picture up there you will visit the EntreDog page I put up! So leave me a comment if you want in, and I’ll get you in! I have ways!