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So this is my weaving for agility!  The Mum is slow with videos sometimes so this was me like a whole month ago. I’m much better now!

But here it is if you want to watch. It’s only a couple of minutes. Hopefully the Mum will get some videos of me jumping too soon. She says I can probably be ready for my first real agility trail next February, yay! I’m excited!

So the Mum wants to talk about her teeth for a little bit on my blog and I think she is weird to do so but oh well I guess I’ll let her… just this once! So from now to the end of this post and only this post she is gonna tell all you doggies about what her teeth are like!

Hi Readers! I had the opportunity to try out a tooth guard recently to help with my bruxism. I grind and clench my teeth at night until my jaw is sore and aching with the tension of it. It’s awful. I had a dental guard from my dentist but one of the dogs (probably Tatum!) got a hold of it and chewed it up!

So I got this dental mouth guard and tried it out.

What follows is my brief video review of the product.

I like it so far, though I seem to be chewing through the back portion of it already, which really isn’t good.  But really like how it was so easy to form it to my own teeth. And I also liked that I didn’t have to go in to see the dentist to have it done!

Okay anyway I hope some of you find this useful, and I’ll give the blog back to Tatum now.

This review is a result of a feedback campaign by DenTek Oral Care, Inc. The recipients were asked to give their honest opinion about the product they received. Good reviews were not incentivized and poor reviews will not be censored for their opinion of the product. Best, PayU2Blog

So today we got to go to another Hooman Pawty! It was kinda fun but I wanted to run and play a bit more than I did. And eat Turkey! The hoomans got to eat turkey and cake and pie and other stuff. Well the Mum brought treats for me and Jet but that Turkey did smell good! I thought maybe I could find an online backup for the Turkey so I could eat it later but I didn’t, boo.

There were some cute and silly Cocker Spaniel puppies there too and I got to play with them and it was fun. Jet came too and he also liked playing with the puppies. They are only 13 weeks old but they were a bit big for Jet to squish like he squished our sheltie friend Dare.

This is one of the puppies but I don’t know if this was Jeb or Moses… because they look a lot alike!  I want to go play with them again some more!

yay for more snow! We got some more snow and we played in it a bit. Jet and I like to run in the snow though he gets colder lots faster than I do. Maybe some car accessories would keep him warmer, but only in my van!

Jet has this weird toy in his mouth in this picture. And my sister Angel is also here in the picture but she doesn’t really play much. She likes to carry toys around but Jet is kinda mean and tends to steal them from her.

So I told the Mum that we need to go to the dog park again soon so I can run in the snow.I love running in the snow at the dog park!

So finally the Mum got me a bed that I can fit in! Look at me now! It’s still a little teeny bit small up here on the dog shelf in my new bed, but I do like to curl up in it and so it’s not too small really.

So now instead of me trying to squeeze into a bed that’s too small, like putting on breeches that are just too small, I get to curl up in this comfy bed.

The Mum said it didn’t even cost $40 which was good, because she says she doesn’t have $40 for a bed for me. But I think that’s a small price to pay for a bed for me, since I deserve a special comfy bed for myself!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!