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Here is another fun pictures of me doing agility. Isn’t it just way cool? This is me on the A-Frame. I like the A-Frame it’s one of my most favorite obstacles. Sometimes if I don’t get a good fast running start, though, I will go around it instead of up. It’s really steep and I have to get going super fast for me to make it all the way up. And I know if I’m not going fast enough and so I go around instead. The Mum says it’s better for me to be safe and not go up if I think I can’t make it.

I haven’t done too much agility with the Mum lately as she hasn’t been feeling very good this last weekend. But I do hope we can do some this coming weekend and have some fun at the agility yard. Maybe she needs a herstyler flat iron to help her be more happy, though since I don’t really know what that is, maybe not either, but it’s a hooman thing so who knows what makes hoomans happy sometimes?

This weekend I got to go on a really fun walk with Levi and the Mum. Levi has taught me that barking at all the people we walk by is super fun. Whenever someone goes by then Levi barks at them and the Mum says “Levi Quiet” and he barks anyway until the Mum touches his collar and then he’s quiet for a little bit. So I learned that it’s fun to bark at people too. The Mum sometimes has to take my collar too but I don’t now why she thinks we should stop barking because it’s really fun!

I didn’t go with my brothers Chase and Jet when they went to go chase bunnies at a thing called Lure Coursing. The Mum tried to get me to chase the fake bunny once but it wasn’t really that fun and the Mum had to run with me the whole way. So I didn’t go today but that’s okay I wouldn’t have wanted to anyway.

Here is a video of my brother Chase chasing the fake bunny.

The Mum says there were lots of trailers and cars and stuff there with curt trailer hitches on them that pulled the dogs and all their supplies around. She also said it was too hot and it smelled bad because it was by a place called the Dump and I didn’t want to go anyway. But my brothers Chase and Jet sure had fun!

Yup, this is my in a tunnel! The was a really nice photographer at the agility trial last time I was there and he took some fun pictures. Aren’t I cute in the tunnel? I like agility, it’s really fun. The Mum is still trying to get me to run, though, and I’m not so sure about the running part. Doesn’t agility just mean to trot and do things around the course? I think so for sure. Maybe I can ring the incredible s bell too as part of the course. That could be a fun new thing to do.

It’s finally warming up here in Utah and I get to play in the yard on the grass with Jet and do fence patrol and bark at the neighbors. That’s super fun but the Mum and the Dad say that the neighbors don’t like it very much and so I don’t get to do it for very long. But playing is fun and it’s nice to lay in the sun when it’s warm outside.

The Mum is doing this Weave Poll Challenge thing with me and Jet and it’s kinda fun. Though I haven’t done stuff with the Mum in the yard for a while so didn’t want to follow her around unless she had good treats! So she got out some livers for me and then following her was okay. She cut all that part out of the video though and this only shows me doing the weaving stuff. I think she should have left it all in because she is funny when she has to show me all the treats before I’ll follow her!

Look how good I’m doing! The Mum was happy, and I did it with the Mum in all sorts of different places. We get to do another agility trial in a couple of weeks that should be fun again too, and so the Mum is making us practice so that we’ll do good! I don’t think we’ll need any xanax detox afterwards either, because we don’t get addicted to livers but then again they sure are yummy. The livers!

Sometimes… well okay all the times, I think that the whole couch should really just be for me and the other dogs shouldn’t lay on the couch at all. And so when another dog is on the couch, like my big sister Lucy is here, I think that maybe if I growl at her that’ll show her that I want the whole couch for myself and for her to get off.

The Mum and Dad say I have to share the couch but I like it all to myself. So this is a picture of me and Lucy on the webcam that the Mum saved from the other day. You can see all my teeth are out when I was growling. I’m not a mean collie and I never bite anyone or anydog because I know that my teeth are really strong. But I like the show them off, aren’t they pretty and white?

I don’t even bite the Mum or the Dad when they do super awful torture stuff like dremel my nails or give me baths. I just put my tail under my belly and look at them all sad and try to squirm away because I hate it so bad. Even though it doesn’t hurt I still don’t like that stuff!

But I do like to growl sometimes and the Mum says I have a very pretty growl, which I do!

The Mum says that this weekend she has entered me in Agility at the Open level now. So far I’ve been doing agility at the novice level. And in novice, you get to do six weave polls and less jumps and things. But in Open, you do 12 weave polls and more jumps and things. This picture is of me doing six weave polls, and since they are really hard, I have to concentrate a lot on each and every one of them. But I do them good and I get them all done. When I have to do 12 then I hope I can remember to get them all, because that’s a really long time to concentrate on doing weave polls!

So anyway this Saturday and Sunday I’ll be in Open and AKC agility, and it’ll be fun for this smooth sable collie girl. I like agility, and I like the livers and tuna brownies I get for doing it all too!

I wonder if my brothers and sisters would like agility, they are mostly still in Texas I think. Maybe I could get a legal paternity test and find out which of the collies from Houston are really my brothers and sisters, that’d be really fun!

So we did have fun doing DOCNA agility last weekend and I ran really super fast. Check out this video of me doing a Jumpers course. I ran so fast out of the first jump that I surprised the Mum and she had to run faster to keep up with me!

So the Mum is silly because she really has to let me know where we are going! Sometimes she just doesn’t and so I keep going straight and then she says TURN but it’s too late because I’ve zoomed passed her and then I need to go all the way back and do a thing. So I am going to teach the Mum tomorrow at agility practice how to tell me when we are turning! Maybe she needs some Baby Invitations so that she can be a baby handler and learn how to do things from other people too!

Anyway agilities are fun and we get to do them again in a couple of weeks. I’m a fast smooth collie girl who likes agility and the next trial I’ll be in the Open class in AKC. I’ve gotten my Novice titles and I’m ready for the harder stuff! I hope the Mum is!