Tatum Tot Spice

Today I went with the Mum, Chase, Muffit and Angel to flyball practice. Angel got to come ’cause the Mum says she doesn’t get to go out much and she really likes to come and say hi to people and eat treats. And Chase’s tooth is better so he got to play tug. And Muffit got to go to and the Mum thinks he is doing better with all the distractions!

And so lookit what I got to do! Finally the dumb Mum remembered to ask Aunt Christy to take pictures of me as I’m learning the jumps and aren’t I cute! And I’m fast too!

This first jump is Aunt Laurie holding onto me so I can run over all the jumps!

Then when I see the Mum call me from the other side of the jumps, and then the Mum runs off and I just have to chase her! And I go over all four jumps and it’s fun! The Mum wasn’t running at first and that was kinda boring so I’d go run off by myself but then when the Mum started to run, I ran too!

Lookit me go! It’s super fun to learn to go over jumps! The Mum says I am a really fast collie girl when I want to be. And yup that’s true, it’s when I want to be! I like to do things my own way and then it’s fun!

Woo Hoo!

And aren’t I just the cutest collie you’ve ever seen doing flyball jumps! The jumps don’t have any ball lock pins, they are just wood aren’t they neato?

A Treat For Reward!

And then at the end of the jumps the Mum gives me yummy treats! They are super good to eat and so I stop and eat them right up!

So I get to do flyball more in a couple of weeks! I hope the Mum starts to teach me how to do the box… she says the prop thingy she had isn’t tall enough and I just walk over it, I don’t jump. So if she’d ever remember to have the Dad make a taller one, then we could learn more!

I like flyball and learning. Though I like to do it how I want to. But the Mum says if we are going to compete then I have to learn her rules.  Well, I guess I’ll do that too then!  Flyball is fun!

Me and Muffit

So I was looking through our pictures from last winter when there used to be snow, because we don’t have any snow this year yet. And I was remembering some look that Muffit was giving me on one snowy day that we played and played and played. And I remember Muffit was seeing something that I wasn’t sure if I saw… though he said he saw something scary. And no one believed him not even the Mum and she is the one who takes the pictures!

Uh Oh What's That?

So look what was in the pictures! Sometimes on the TV flashy noise and picture box the Mum watches some shows that say that there are weird monsters that might be called UFOs or Ghost Huntings or things like that. And the Mum wonders if these are true or not.  But look what the Muffit saw here! It’s an icky monster and i didn’t even see it until I see it in the pictures!

It's a Green Monster!

I was thinking I really want it to snow again because I like the snow and the cold and going to the park and playing and running and having fun, but if there are green monsters in the snow that can be invisible except on cameras then I’m not so sure I want it to snow anymore! Oooo mygosh!

moar funny pictures

So the Mum helped me do this picture! I don’t know if it’ll get on the front page of icanhascheezburger.com, but we thought we’d give it a try! This is me and Chip, my sheltie friend who came to visit a while back!

The Mum took us to flyball practice today! It was fun. I like run-around days better than rest days. Though a couple of rest minutes are okay once in a while. See above I’m resting in the pen with Angel and Muffit.  Angel liked to come too… she hasn’t ever come to flyball with us before. Chase had to stay home because he had a tooth pulled out (OUCH) and the Mum says his mouth has to heal up before he can play tug again. Chase was so mad when we left!  Poor Chase loves flyball it’s his favorite. He had to stay home like our other car in our carports that doesn’t get to go out anymore and the Mum wants to sell it, want to buy a car?

My very favorite thing to do is to run and run around like I’m doing here!  After flyball practice we all get to run and run ’cause it’s safe as there is a whole fence around. So it makes it so us young dogs who forget to come with our Mums and Dads call us won’t get lost on accident. We don’t want to get lost we just get a little bit distracted some of the time!

And Muffit loves to run around too. Above he us running around with Kibu, she is a fast and fun dog on our flyball team too. She is fun to play with and she likes to play and play and run and run too. I want to play with her more but the Mum says we are so busy we hardly have time to go and have a play date with Kibu!

And Angel got to come with, too. She doesn’t get to go out much ’cause the Mum is always taking out me and Muffit and Levi and Chase and so Lucy and Levi don’t get to go as much. But the Dad takes them for walkies sometimes and that is fun too. Angel had fun with and she got to bark and bark and she loves to do that. And at flyball practice barking is really fun and everyone does it and it’s okay to do!

And guess who this cute little guy is!!?? His name is Sundance and he’s the youngest member of our flyball team! Isn’t he just the cutest? The Mum loves taking pictures of puppies and I love playing with puppies and I’m puppy safe which is the bestest!

So now we are all gonna go to sleep because we are tired, especially me and Muffit and Angel. We had fun barking and running and barking. Oh and I did try to go over some jumps again and I had to sit and shake a paw then get a click and a treat.. and I’d go to the Mum but then I was going to have to go back to Aunt Laurie and I wasn’t too sure about that.  So I wanted to run off and go Woo Hoo instead! So the Mum put a big long leash on me and I went ‘pfft’ and then I stuck around. But it was kinda fun anyway. And the Mum says if I learn the rules to these games I’ll have even more tons of fun because it’s rules that make things really fun. So I dunno about that but the Mum seems right so far!

Good Night!

The Disembodied Food Hand

Today is a rest day ’cause the Mum says she needs rest days. i don’t know why because I have every day as a rest day almost. Except the learning days which are more fun than the rest days. So are the running amok in the dog park and getting lost for 20 minutes days. But today is a rest day not a running or learning day.  Tomorrow will be a flyball day and I’m excited for that!

I just kinda wanted to show you a picture of how the Mum is supposed to teach me how to do things.  See the disembodied hand that has yummy treats in it? Well that is always supposed to be there! And the Mum thinks she wants me to do some things without that hand there with the treats in it. HRMPH.

So when the hand goes away so does my attention. I like food and dogs and running!  The Mum tells me I’ll like agility too and I probalby will. It’s just that the Mum and I have to work out who is boss and what we do between the agility stuff.  And I think I should tell her what to do, but she thinks she should tell me what to do.  So the Mum is trying to be firm with me and, well, yeah I guess i give in.  ‘Cause she is the Mum after all. And even though before I came to live here and I lived in the icky place that didn’t have enough food or water, and sometimes I still get afraid of hoomans even though they seem pretty nice, I think some of them are trustworthy even though I’m still testing them all!

I'm Tired Today!

ooo the Mum is a silly Mum. Today the Mum took me to a place called a Dog Training Place called Willow in the Creek. I didn’t see any willows or any creeks but I did see some other dogs and I got to go through a tunnel!

Me and the Mum are having a bit of a disagreement lately. The Mum thinks that I should do things that she wants me to do, when she wants me to do them. Well, I’d rather do what I want to do, when I want to do them!  So today we argued a little bit and.. well, I didn’t really win but I did get to hide in the tunnel and not come out!

There is this grassy place with a fence around and fun agility stuff inside. And the Mum wants me to go over a jump and then get a treat. That’s okay but I’d rather do it how I want to do it. And I’d rather run around and around the place first before I come and get the treat. And the Mum says well… she sometimes takes me by the collar because I’m being a bit stubborn!  And so she brings me to the jump, then I have to touch her hand with my paw, then I get a click and a treat, then I do the jump! Then I get a treat on a plate, then I do another jump and get another treat but I have to sit for it too.

The Mum is making me work so very hard!  I have to do the paw touch and the sit and all that stuff just to get a treat. Hrmph! Well I guess that’s okay ’cause I do love the Mum and it’s fun to go and do stuff, but I do really think I should be boss of it all and not her! But she disagrees. Doesn’t everydog know that smooth sable collie girls are princess and going to be Queens and should get what we want? If I don’t get what I want, I might have to look for motorcycle accident attorneys and slap a lawsuit on the Mum!

So then when the Mum told me to go through the tunnel, after a paw touch and a click, then I ran in as fast as I could and then just stopped and looked out and I laughed and laughed at the Mum and my Aunt Edie!  Bahaaaa!!  I didn’t have to come out!

It made the Mum laugh too and she was rolling on the ground looking at me peeking out of the tunnel.  He he I’m such a smart sneaky collie girl. Then they took the tunnel away, which wasn’t nice of them, so then we tried the teeter totter and I had to do the paw touch first, then I got to go on it and it’s fun too! I think I’m gonna like agilities, as soon as I get the Mum and Aunt Edie trained up so I can do it the way I want to! 

We have been having a ton of visitors lately! I love it! Chase doesn’t like visitors very much, but he’s been being fairly nice. Which means he doesn’t attack them and bite at them very much. Only when they get too close to him but then they leave him alone.

Sadie is fun and she is the friend of someone at where my Dad works. She comes to visit us once in a while when her hoomans go out on vacations. And I like when she comes! We like to play and play and run and run in the yard. Though the Mum wanted us to play this morning so she could get pictures, but we were kinda tired and didn’t much want to play. But we did a little bit before our big nap. ‘Cause while the Mum needs diet pills to keep herself skinny, I just like to run and run and it’s more fun anyway!

Sadie is a rescue like me and she likes to go on big long hikes with her Dad. She was even crouching down in our yard like she wanted to herd me around!  But she doesn’t get to herd me! Sadie plays loud. She likes to growl and bark and she can sound kinda mean, and even Muffit didn’t like that about her. But I don’t mind ’cause I know what she’s really saying!  I hope she comes back again soon!  Even though the Mum says it’s fun to have friends visit, it’s also fun when they go home!

I have been doing some fun things and some boring things lately.  The Mum is going to start bringing me to a training place on Fridays in the mornings so we can practice some agility stuff. Last Friday wasn’t too fun because the Mum wasn’t in a very good mood and so I didn’t really want to do anything.  But then my Aunt Trainer helped her and we got better and I learned that going over a jump I got a treat, then another jump and I got another treat from the Mum.

The Mum says we will have fun and I think it’ll be fun too, as long as the Mum isn’t in a grumpy mood!  Today we went out into the front yard and did the weaving poll things again and the Mum would say Woo Hoo and how awesome I was at starting to wiggle through the upright polls!  And I get them most of the time, but sometimes the yummy treats on the white lid distract me and I try to go around the polls instead of through and then the Mum doesn’t let me get the treats. Hrmph!

Well maybe the Mum would be distracted by an Oscar de la Renta because she likes stuff like that but I just like treats and play!

Oh and also we have another friend here visiting her name is Sadie and if the Mum would find the camera’s battery charger we could get some pictures of us playing! Have a good day everydog!

It’s been raining all day today, and it rained most of yesterday, and it’s gonna rain again tomorrow. At least so the weather-guesser says. And so does the Mum. When it rains even if the Mum goes outside and calls us we say No Way and all stand in the doorway in the same spot.

Before I came to live here when I lived in Houston, I thought the rain was okay.. and when I came to live here in my bestest foreverhome I’d go outside and play and run in the rain.. but Lucy, Levi, Angel and Chase would look at me funny so one day I asked them, why do you look at me funny when I’m out in the rain?

They all said well, don’t you know that collies and border collies melt in the rain?

I said WHAT?!  I didn’t know! I never have felt melty before but I didnt’ want to risk it anymore and so now I stay indoors whenever it’s raining outside.  And then when Muffit came to live with us I asked him one day, ’cause he came from someplace else, if collies and border collies melt in the rain, and he said yep, we do!

Glitter and Chip may not melt in the rain… they are shelties and they run right out and potty even when it’s raining hard.  And I haven’t seen any sign of them melting at all. So I guess it’s just collies and border collies that melt in the rain and shelties don’t.

The Mum says that Glitter and Chip are just more polite to go out in the rain and potty and that their Mum is better at teaching them potty than she is… but I dunny. Maybe some of my sheltie blogging friends will come and tell me, do shelties melt in the rain?

The Mum finally got some pictures of me playing with Chip! Muffit kinda started it though… and doesn’t it kinda look like we are fighting instead of playing? Chip likes to show all his teeth when he plays, but I’m not fooled! Chase is the same way, I think I’ve posted about that before. Probably before the Mum went on her European cruises.. and left me behind!

I was able to get him good on his neck, and the Mum snapped a picture just at the right time! It looks like I’m biting him and he’s yelling in pain, and he’s gonna whip around and bite me back! But he didn’t, he just played with me back! And Muffit likes playing too. We all have a great time!

He is a fancy sheltie boy with all his long fuzzy hair, kinda like my white sheltie friend Reilly. Fuzzy shelties sure are fun to have around and play with! I wish I could play with Reilly, too. I just get to play with Chip while he is here hanging out with us.

We are all kinda tired now and snoozing after our big play fight!