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Okay so the Mum took me to do that Rally thing today! And it was kinda fun, but I was a little bit nervous. Here is the video of me doing it. The Mum said I did really super well and she was so happy! I like it when the Mum is happy.

I just kinda had to follow her around and do sits and stands and stays and stuff like that. After we did all these weird things then she told me to lay down for a really long time. And I didn’t want to stay all the way laying down so I got up. And the Mum said that wasn’t so good, so I didn’t get a Q whatever that is. I just know I got treats after. The Mum said that she made sardine brownies for me for tomorrow, I love those! They are good and tasty and smelly too!

So we are going to do it again tomorrow and the Mum hopes we get a Q thing tomorrow, and a ribbon and a toy. And then she said she will take me to Idaho to do some AKC Rally in August. I like to go on trips so that should be fun too. She better bring lots of Sardines and Tunas!

So this is one smooth collie girl that has done Rally now and it’s kinda fun!

So the Mum tells me that tomorrow is the big day. And that she has entered me in the first ASCA Rally trial here in Utah. So I’m kinda nervous because I don’t know what Rally-O really is. And this collie girl hasn’t done it before. But I’m willing to give it a good try! The Mum says all I have to do is walk nice on her left side and stop with her, and turn with her, and make sure I follow her around. So that’s what I’m gonna do.

The Mum hopes to get some videos of me doing it so maybe I’ll post them up tomorrow when I’m done. I did go and do agility today and that was really super fun! I get to do it tomorrow and Sunday too. The Mum says it’s the first thing I’ve ever been in where I can earn a real Q. I just hope I can earn a tuna brownie because those are better for sure!

So the Mum is worried about what to wear. She says she can’t wear just a t-shirt and jean shorts because she is supposed to look nice. And she even gave me and Levi a bath today, and dremmeled our toenails, yuck! Levi is going too. The Mum says he gets jealous because he hasn’t been in a ring in like a year so it’ll make him happy to go back in and do some novice Rally-O. He has done it before though in AKC so he’s not nervous at all. He has a title called an RE in his Rally-O so he’s an expert!

Wish me lucks! I hope I don’t need any opiate detox when I’m done, because I’m so nervous that I have to have some dugs!

Okay so the Mum is asking me about what hoomans wear and what do I know about that? I just don’t know much. What do you know about it? Jet knows that if the Mum and the Dad leave their clothes on the floor, that he’ll grab them up and take them outside and play tug with them! Whether it’s women’s clothing or men’s clothing, Jet doesn’t care. And if it’s one of the Dad’s Polo Shirts, or one of his old grungy T-shirts too. Or sometimes even his boxer shorts!

So anyway though sometimes the Mum and the Dad have to put nice clothes on after they shower (oh man, showering is so horrible! Why do they do it?) and then they go out somewhere fancy. But most of the time they just lay around at home and don’t do much and wear grungy clothes. And that’s what I like because then if us dogs get them dirty, they don’t care, because they are already dirty!

So yesterday the Mum dig up the big glass box thingy that she calls a Fish Tank, but I don’t know why she calls it a Fish Tank because there are no fish in it. I would know, since I like to EAT fish. But I sure don’t like to eat the things that are in that tank! And there’s no water either, just a lot of dirt at the bottom. And they are called Hermit Crabs and if they get too close, they will grab you on the nose and pinch you!

But the Mum is good and she doesn’t let the icky Hermit Crabs get too close to me or the other dogs.  We stay away, even when they crawl out of their little plastic tubs she put them in when she was cleaning their icky tank.  But they are all put away again and the Mum just watched them and watched them and thought they were so funny when they crawled around to check out their new digs. I just thought they were icky!

So the Mum tells everybody that she knows that it’s not very safe to drive fast. Because the Mum has been in three car accidents that were really, really bad and they scared her a lot. And she says that the only reason she is alive today is because of the seat belts she was wearing.

So the Mum doesn’t speed either, because she knows that it’s not safe. And she drives the speed limit (okay she does go over the speed limit once in a while). But she hasn’t gotten a speeding ticket since she was like 17 years old, which was like a zillion years ago in dog years. Humans live so long it’s just weird. But so the Mum doesn’t have radar detectors in her cars because she doesn’t go so fast as to need them.

It’s just safer to go slower and be good. The Mum said she was in two rollovers, and with one even Lucy was with her! And she doesn’t ever want to get into an accident like that every again. Her first rollover no dogs were with, just her Mum and her Dad, which was scary too. And then she said a lady ran a red light in front of her going to work a couple of years ago, and she t-boned that lady. But if the timing was any different the lady would have smashed right into the drivers side of the car and the Mum could have been really badly hurt, and that would have been super bad.

So let’s everyone drive really safely and not too fast so the cops don’t pull anyone over! Let’s all be safe!

So yup I did more weave poll thingies in the back yard. The Mum says she wants me to practice every day. And since I don’t really know how to do them yet, I need the Mum there to practice with me. So she did some video of me last night and aren’t I just good? I had fun too, you can tell because my tail was wagging. I like eating the tune brownies! And even though it’s hard to learn the weave polls, this smooth collie girl can do it!

I think I’m starting to understand how it all works but it’s confusing and it’s hard to bend my body around those weird things! The Mum wonders who came up with these things anyway. Because they are hard for me to learn. Maybe I need some prenexa vitamins to help me be stronger so I can do them better. But the Mum says, we will keep trying, and I will learn soon!

This picture is not of a scary place…. this picture is of the fun hiking place we went to up in the mountains which I really liked and had a good time doing. But on Sunday the Mum took me to a kinda scary place. Even though my friend Daniel was there, he’s a Cattledog and he’s really nice and I love to play with him, but the inside of the building was weird and sounded funny and I didn’t like it very much. I didn’t even really want the tuna brownies the Mum gave me. But I did some lay on my mat and some go over the jump and some walk around and it wasn’t too bad. And I did some lay in the crate and that was good too!

So I was thinking that it’s always good to have something that makes sure the car works okay because if the car breaks down and it’s too hot outside, and you are stuck in a scary place, then it’s too hard to get home! So there are places like Chicago auto repair that can make sure your car works really well. Though the Mum wouldn’t ever leave me anywhere. She makes sure we are all safe and that is really the best, she’s a good Mum even though she pushes me sometimes and I get a bit scared. Though we don’t have a Toyota Corolla, the car we do have is really safe and the air conditioner works really well. You don’t want the water pump going out on a hot day because that would be really dangerous.

Us dogs, and people too, can get over-hot and then we can get sick and maybe even die and that’s not a good thing! We want to live long fun healthy lives and so the Mum and the Dad take good care of us and take us home where there is a nice Swamp Cooler to keep us cool. So I got to go home after on Sunday and relax and boss everyone around again and that was great!

The lake was really big! I get my feet in lakes sometimes but I don’t like to swim. Collies don’t swim! My brother Jet might swim someday but he is not so sure about it yet. But the hike to Dog Lake was fun though the Mum says it wasn’t the best ab workout it was still a good workout! I slept a lot after the hike but now I want to go again because it was like a week ago that we went!

The Mum says that we have to do agility teaching first and then maybe we can go on another hike up the canyon. I hope so because hikes are really fun!

Yay finally the Mum took her camera with and got some pictures of me up the canyon! We went last Friday and oh boy it was a really long hike! It was fun though and afterward I got home and slept on my comfy bed. And then I typed some random numbers like 108R00724 just because it’s fun to do!

I ran a lot at the beginning of our hike but then at the end I walked with the Mum because she goes slower than Jet and Muffit do. And the Dad came with too and he was fun to be with.

It was really green and there were lots of other fun dogs too. It was a canyon called Millcreek and we went to the top which is Dog Lake and I’ll post up some pictures of the lake later!

So the Mum says she hasn’t taken many pictures because she has just got back from that place called Denmark and so she only has pictures of Jet! Well he’s kinda cute but I’m cuter. But anyway here is a picture of Jet if you want to see it.

So this is a short post but I’m gonna make the Mum post up some pictures of me tomorrow or I’ll bite her in the but! Maybe I’ll give her a noxycut right on the behind!