Tatum Tot Spice

So lots of times we like to go out in the back yard and play. Here is me with my brothers Jet and Muffit. They are both kinda white but Muffit is the bigger white brother and Jet is the smaller white brother. Muffit might look mean but he’s not and I like playing with him even with his mouth open!

So the Mum says that in order for us all to do fun things and go on rides and to the park and to agility we have to make sure that Houston auto repair is keeping our cars in tip top shape. Even though I don’t live in Houston now, I used to before I came to live here. I was kinda sad there though because I didn’t get to do agility or have a warm house to live in like I do now. But someone in an Acura Integra must have drove me out here… oh wait no, I came in a big air plane! That was kinda scary but I think they got their oil changes all done before we flew out so it was safe!

So but anyway we love to play in the yard and in the snow, even though the Mum doesn’t really like it when it’s cold. I do because I can run and run and not get too hot at all!  But the Mum says the cars all need a good tune up before they freeze solid when it’s winter and it’s only five degrees outside. I don’t mind if it’s five degrees outside as long as I can come into our warm cozy house and sleep on the dog shelf and the dog bed on the dog shelf after we play and play and play!

Sometimes the Mum worries about me a little bit because sometimes I get really tired. But she doesn’t know what it’s like to be a collie girl and get super tired! I play and play all day with Jet and Titus and then I need a big deep sleep! Or sometimes when the Mum takes me to agility training and I have to think really hard and run around a lot, I get tired there too! I think the Mum should give me some Black and Mild cigars after but she won’t, she says they are not good for collies.

So okay whatever then I sleep on the dog bed on the dog shelf and the Mum put a pillow under my head for me isn’t she nice? Yeah the Mum is pretty nice and I like to hang out with her, and then get a nice deep sleep!

The Mum says that today is a day called Christmas and so I am hoping everypup has a happy Howlidays and Christmas day time! The Mum took me and my brother Chase jogging today and it was fun! I get kinda tired and cranky after jogging but I like to nap in my crate and that’s a good thing too. The Mum says sometimes she needs knee pain treatment after she goes running because he knee can hurt. But she runs on it the smart way (whatever that is) and then she’s mostly okay.

The Mum put me and Chase’s bright fun vests on in case that it got dark and there were cars around and they need to see us and stay away from us! Especially my brother Chase since he is so black he’s super hard to see in the dark!

Well I’m going to do my nap thing now and so have a Happy Holiday!

So here I am doing agility! Aren’t I the best ever! I think so! The Mum thinks I’m a little bit slow and I need more speed and forward focus. And I get a little distracted and I kinda like to wander off and go around jumps instead of over them. But the Mum is learning how to do agility my way!

Aren’t I awful good! the Mum says I’m sometimes just the awful part but she’s just silly because I’m such a great smooth collie agility working girl! What do you all think? Maybe I’ll just stick the Mum in a shipping box and send her off somewhere so I can do agility all by myself. Heck I am so good I hardly need her to tell me where to go!

Here is a picture of me getting a really good look at Jet’s teeth. Aren’t they shiny and white? We like to play and Jet puts out his teeth and I just laugh at him because he looks funny! He does it to the Mum too and she laughs at him too because he is a silly puppy of just eight months old.

So anyway last time we did agility fun things was last Friday and guess what? The Mum put up lots of jumps in a row in lots of turns and corners and things and I did them all! And she also put in the Teeter Totter which is really fun and I push it down and it goes BANG and I don’t care or get scared.

This Friday my Aunt Marie is going to come play agility stuff with us and bring her little shelties with and I get to show them all how good I’m doing. I’ll get it on the video machine too so I can post it all up and show you guys how much fun and how good I am at doing agility!

So my New Friend Titus is doing really well and you know what I like about him a lot? I get to boss him around! I will play with him most of the time but after I’m tired and then I get cranky and I growl at otherdogs and he’s easy to growl at! Once I even scared him half way up the stairs! And he doesn’t like the stairs he says they look like a cliff and even when the Mum tries to get him to go up he just stretches for treats and won’t go up. But I can growl him up!

Don’t get me wrong I won’t hurt him or anything but everydog needs to know I’m boss (except for Lucy) in our house and so I let them know it. One of these days I’ll get an cancun all inclusive trip just for me and maybe the Mum and we’ll go have fun on vacation!

Titus isn’t too good in this picture but I am and Jet is kinda funny hiding behind the A-Frame that the Mum has in the back yard.  But I’m the prettiest anyway so pictures of me are just the best!

So this is Titus isn’t he handsome! I really like him a lot! His real person Mum died when he lived in California and isn’t that just really sad? I think so too. So he was going to go back to his breeder hooman but she has to take care of her Mum who is super sick. And so Titus came to stay with us for a little while!

With all the disability appeal going on around here it’s sad that people are sick and leaving this world. So we are sad for them and for Titus. But I like him and he thinks I’m pretty and we like to flirt!

Titus is a smooth tricolored collie boy.  The Dad here really likes him and wants him to stay, but the Mum says if he stayed there would be eight of us then and that’s really too many of us dogs in this little house.  But I like him too and I would love if he stayed.  Chase and Levi don’t like him but they don’t like anyone so that’s nothing new.

Anyway maybe he will stay, maybe he won’t. But while he is here we will play and have fun!

So the Mum said that I had to take this test last weekend and that it would mean that I was a Canine Good Citizen. I already know that I’m a good citizen but I guess they wanted this test so that they could prove it to the world and get this funny peice of paper to hang on the wall. So now I can be called Tatum Tot Spice CGC. That is kinda neat those letters after my name!

This is me doing some of it. I was kinda nervous up on the top of the arena place, I like it downstairs better, so we did some downstairs too and the Mum didn’t get video of us downstairs.

I’m smart though and I passed really well! We didn’t send out any communion invitations to my test but that’s okay because I was a bit nervous anyway and didn’t want anyone else to watch!

So the other day was Thanksgiving for the hoomans and they ate lots of stuff and they didn’t give me much. Don’t tell my Dog-Oma but the Dad snuck me some turkey and boy it was good! I wanted to eat these things too but I couldn’t because they wouldn’t let me. Isn’t that just kinda mean?

Oh well I do get to eat lots of doggie treats and they are super good. And the Mum better make me some Tuna Brownies soon because they are my favorite. And if she makes them in Christmas shapes that’d be even the best ever! And remember don’t use any electronic cigarettes at this time of year, though, because they are not healthy and we want you hoomans to live long good lives!