Tatum Tot Spice

So last night the Mum turned on the TV and there were all these barking and whining dogs on there! So I had to watch too. And I only really watched when the dogs were on, because i don’t really care much about people on the TV. The Mum says I’ve been watching TV for over a year now and I really shouldn’t have to bark back at the dogs anymore, but I still think that I do have to! Maybe if we could turn off the bath light fixtures that the Mum likes to have on, and calls candles… but oh well! Muffit watched a little bit too from the edge of the couch but he doesn’t bark at the dogs on the TV like I do. I’m definitely the best in the house at making sure those dogs on the TV know that this is my house and they shouldn’t dare come out of that TV into our house!

So the Mum said she’d never seen the show before but she’d heard what happened and so she didn’t cry. She hates to cry anymore.  And she told me that the dogs were actor dogs and were not really hurt, and how cool it was for the one dog to walk around with her back let up because that’s a really tricky trick to learn!

So we watched that show then we played some then we went to sleep for the night!

It snowed here again today. Snow! I like the Snow but the Mom is tired of it. And it sure is fun to run on the grass and in the sun!

This picture of me was from last fall when it was nice and cool and the grass was still green. I get to do lots of fun stuff this year when it warms up too! The Mum teaches me more stuff when it’s warm out, and I like that. And then it memory stick… errr.. it sticks in my memory, good too, when we work outside where it’s warm!

Do you like the warm or the cold? I like to sleep in snuggly warm spots, and run in cool spots so I don’t get too hot!

The Mum did it! She finally set up the webcam again.  It’s super cool. She wants to get the old webcam pics up too. I want to be on it, but I get tired of waiting around for the whole 3o seconds it takes for the picture to snap. And so usually I get distracted and wander off. Maybe some more system memory would help me remember!

So if you want to see us during the day.. and if we remember to pose for the camera, you can check it out!

Our Web Cam

Weee hoo!  Web cams are super fun! Do you have one?

So the Mum has this weird plastic thing and I’m not sure what she wants me to do with it but she puts squeezie cheezie on it and it taste’s good! So I lick it off and that’s pretty easy. But then the Mum tries to slip it into my mouth and I’m not so sure about that. Though the squeezie cheezie goes in my mouth too and I do like that part!

The Mum is trying to teach me lots of things and it is really fun. Though sometimes I am not so sure about doing what she wants. though it never hurts, it’s just weird!  Why would I want to pick up this dumbbell and put it in my mouth? The Mum does give me a click and a treat for it, though. She says that I’ll understand soon, becuase I’m a smart girl.  And when she puts the dumbbell thing in between her knees like this, and then I get to lick the chees off, that’s super yummy!

It’s kinda like following the stick around with tuna brownies on it.  I like all the good treat parts of these games! I hope I don’t get fat and need to eat some diet pills too!

The Mum and the Dad left Levi and Chase at home last week when the rest of us went to the park to play and run with the other dogs. The Mum and the Dad say it’s too much work for all six of us to go because when all of us go, we don’t have as good as manners and so only up to four of us get to go at the same time. So anyway Levi was pretty mad about not getting to go so guess what he did?

Well no he didn’t chew a bully stick like this picture shows… but he ate four boxes of popcorn!  And so then a couple of days later this is what came out! No it wasn’t a Girard Perregaux watch but it was a lot of popcorns!

And this is after a day went by, you have to go to the Mum’s blog Tip Tail to see what his poop looked like the very next day. It wasn’t even poop at all. It was just a pile of popcorn.  And the Mum says it’s gonna be hard to pick it up, and maybe we’ll have a popcorn tree grow in our backyard this year. Wouldn’t that be fun!

We like popcorn after it’s popped in the microwave but I don’t think I’d eat it before it was popped. Levi doesn’t seem to care if it’s popped or not and so he just gobbles it right up. Especially when he’s mad.

Ooo popcorn poop, doesn’t look yummy to me this time!

The Mum says that sometimes I’m not very good at remembering to chew on my bully stix. Or to even keep them away from Lucy. Lucy likes to eat everyone’s bully stix and she says All Your Bully Stix Are Belong To Me. But usually I don’t really care but they are pretty fun to chew! Though sometimes auto performance parts are even better to chew up!

So the Mum gave us all some bones to chew today and even Lucy. And Lucy swallowed some and then the Mum worried so fed her some lunch in her Lucy Chair to hope it all goes down. Lucy tends to throw up a lot but that’s okay ’cause if she does we all like to eat it!  Oh but them the  Mum goes EWWWwww and doesnt’ let us. Doesn’t the Mum know that throw up is yummy? Hrm.

Well anyway, it’s nap time now after chewing time! It’s cold outside today, hopefully the Mum will teach me fun stuff inside then too in a bit!

This is my big sister Lucy and she eats in this chair that my Dad built for her. My Dad used a box cutter and some old wood we’ve had for a long time (the wood is older than me!) and he put some pads and things on it so that it would be comfortable for her.

My sister Lucy has something called megaesophagus and I don’t know what that is really but it means she has to eat in this chair and she gets to eat four times a day! I only get to eat two times a day so that’s not really fair.  And Lucy gets to eat food that goes grrr grrr in this weird machine first and it gets all soft and watery.

I try to eat some of it when the Mum or the Dad pours it in Lucy’s bowl. But they don’t let me lick very much. But it’s super yummy! I think it’s better than my food but the Mum tells me it’s the same food just with water and blended. But I think she’s lying so that I won’t try to eat it. But I do try anyway!

So Lucy is okay to have around but sometimes she thinks she is alpha and I want to be alpha and we have some issues but I think I will win someday!

We had another agility day and it was lots and lots of fun. There were no Apricot trees there, but the weather and the grass was super nice and we had fun! It was just close to home so I got to come home at night.

The Mum took me to the dirty area again and we did some stick following with the tuna brownies on it again, which was fun! And the Mum said that I did good staying in once place while she walked around.  That’s kinda boring but if I wait long enough she will give me some yummy treats.

And then we do recalls too, where I sit there and then she says ‘Tatum Come!’ and if I run to her super fast I get to eat more tuna brownies and I like those a lot!

My brothers Levi and Chase got to do agility and they had fun too. I want to do agililty but I need more practice on the agility stuff and I hope to get that this summer! I’ll learn it all and be the best one there!

Ooo man, so the Mum made these super yummy new treats that I love a ton! The Mum calls them Tuna Brownies and they are great. And so we went to do some training on Saturday and I got to follow the tuna brownie around on a stick. The Mum says Trott! when we start out and so I look at the tuna brownie and walk by the Mum’s side and we go around in a short circle or a short straight line.

The Mum says that this will be a fun thing to do for obedience. But after I eat the tuna brownie then I have to touch the stick with my nose too. The Mum says that if I don’t, I might just only follow the stick when there is a tna brownie on it, and not the stick without a tuna brownie on it. Well, like duh, why would I want to follow a boring stick without a tuna brownie on it? That’d be like taking a stupid diet pill and I don’t want that, I want to just eat tuna brownies!

So the Mum says we are going to practice that more and more and I say fine, but I want more tuna brownies!

Oh and this is a picture of me when we were up in Idaho last summer, isn’t it pretty?

Bellies are the best! The Mum says she likes my tummy because she likes to rub it. And I don’t mind when she does it feels kinda nice to get a tummy rub!

I use my tummy in lots of ways, like playing like this with Muffit.  Do you have a belly? Do you like to get belly rubs?

The Mum says she likes to lay on the couch and scritch me (and I like to rub my head into her) and drink her wine from the wine of the month club. And she’s pretty good at not spilling, even with me rubbing on her too!