Tatum Tot Spice

I'm a smooth sable collie girl with a lot to say!

   Aug 30

I Pulled A Cart

Me and Mum Carting

Today at camp me and Jet got the Mum up super early in the morning again so we could go run around a lot and play. I did all my good play moves for Jet and we ran and zoomed around on our way down to the beach. Can we live here? It would be the best!

Then the Mum and me tried this thing called carting. Or sometimes it’s called drafting. There’s lots of working dogs that do it, and sometimes collies like me, too. The Mum always wanted me to try it but didn’t have a harness or cart at home. So we got to today, and it was kinda fun! And the Mum said that I was the best of any of the dogs, even Levi and Jet! So the Mum says maybe she’ll have to buy me a cart and we can do some carting at home, that’d be kinda fun but I’ll have to get used to pulling the thing around! Maybe I can do some Room Director Jobs and boss people around and make some money to buy a cart!

Here are some other pictures from camp today.

Me Carting Again

Me, Jet and Levi on the beach in the morning

Me and Jet Playing


   Aug 29

Camp Is the Best Ever!

Camp is Heaven

The Mum is the coolest Mum in the world know why? She took us to camp! It’s everything she promised and more. Me and Jet got her up really early this morning so we could go out and play on the beach. We are in Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and a 4H camp with lots of other dogs. It’s so way super fun!

There lots of Goldens and Border Collies and even another collie! Her names is Georgia and she’s a rough tri and really pretty and fun to play with! Me and Jet and Levi are here. This morning we went on a fun hike around the camp, then went to play on the beach and get our pictures taken. Me and Levi know how to escape the xpen porch the Mum put up, but she’s made it trickier now for us to get out!

Here are some more pictures:

Us On The Beach

Me and Levi on the Beach

Me and Georgia

Me Super Tired

I am having so very much fun. I got so tired at the beach that I got a little nervous and stopped eating the Mum’s tuna brownies. But that’s okay because we can have lots of rest time too. Maybe some equestrian boots would be good for Mum at the beach so her feet don’t get wet, but maybe sandals will be better!


   Aug 13

Went to the Park Today

Me At The Park

Today I went to the dog park with the Mum, Levi and Jet. It was really fun and I ran and ran and ran and ran. There was this weird pack of hoomans and mini-hoomans and I usually stay away from them, but today I got a bug and just wanted to run around them! So I did, and I tried to nip at their butts like I do with the Mum at home and the Mum said oooo Tatum people don’t understand that! But she explained to the hoomans that that is what I do and they didn’t mind so it was all good.

It’s still kinda sad around here with Lucy gone. The Mum hasn’t let me on the computer very much so I haven’t really had the time to reply to all the nice people who have sent their best wishes. The Mum is really still very sad and says she’s having a hard time with Lucy not around. But I think the Mum will be okay soon. I sure hope she is anyway. Maybe she needs to look at some bowhunting supplies so we can find another fun place to live with mountains and streams and boulders and hills. Places that would be super fun to run around!

Here is more pictures of me at the park!

Me at the Park

Me and Levi

Me and Jet

My Brother Jet


   Aug 07

We Are Still Playing

Us and Mum

So Lucy is gone and the Mum and the Dad, and all of us too, are really sad. But we are trying to get by and keep playing as much as we can. Today the Mum and the Dad took us out to the desert. Even though it was too hot, we had a really good time running around.

All five of us dogs haven’t been out together in a while. Because Lucy has been weak, and also because it is hard to get six dogs in one car. The Mum got our MiniVan as a 40th birthday gift and we’ve had it for a couple years now, and all five of us dogs, plus Mum and Dad, all fit in the minivan together. It’s really cool when the Mum gets birthday presents like that! It actually may have been her 42nd birthday gift but now we don’t remember and we just pretend anyway.

The Mum says she doesn’t like being 44 years old and that she feels really old now that Lucy is gone, too. But the Mum is still young to me and she can do lots of running around with us and so that’s a really good thing!

Here are a couple of more pictures of us in the desert having a fun time!

The desert

Hot Desert


   Aug 04

Lucy Is Gone – Thanks For So Much Kindness

Lucy My Sister

My sister Lucy had to leave us yesterday. The Mum and the Dad are really super sad. She was a really fun sister to have around and we will all miss her forever and ever. The Mum is crying a lot and I try to do head rubs on her and hopefully that helps her because I don’t like it when the Mum is sad. She’s sitting around on the couch a lot and watching the weird TV and drinking Rum. But I think she’ll be okay in a few days.

Mum and Me wants to thank all the wonderful people who have come and posted their love and thoughts here on my blog and on Facebook too. Wow we are so surprised and so happy about this. Lucy was in a lot of pain and she could hardly walk or stand anymore, her muscles were all giving out on her and she wasn’t having any fun anymore. So now she gets to run and play someplace really cool and do things that maybe we’ll do someday too. Hopefully she is watching over us. The Mum has been watching for her and says she can feel Lucy too sometimes even now.

Thanks everyone so much for your kind words, it’s so hard when one of the pack has to go and leave forever and we will miss them and our hearts all break in big crumbles. But our hearts heal back up again with a big chunk missing. But we never forget anyone ever.


   Aug 01

Sad about Lucy

My Sister Lucy

This is my big sister Lucy, and next to me she’s the only other girl collie in our house. Lucy is the Pack Marm and she used to push me around when she was younger and stronger. But now she’s getting really old and she’s not strong anymore.

The Mum and the Dad say that Lucy has to leave us forever this Wednesday. The Mum and the Dad have been doing a lot of crying because they don’t want Lucy to go. I don’t really understand where she’s going to go or why, but they say that Levi is going to go with to say goodbye to Lucy on Wednesday.

The Mum says I’ll see her again someday, but not in this world, and not for a long time.

So no one is really happy at our house except Jet, who just doesn’t seem to understand sadness at all, and he bounces around like a goof and looks through bridal shower invitations and tries to chew them up just like he chews up everything else.

So if I don’t post for a while it’s because the Mum is crying and us dogs and Dad are trying to make her feel better.


   Jul 16

Gonna Go To A Camp

Me On The Couch

So the Mum is telling me that in a couple of months we get to go to a place called Camp Winnaribbun. It’s in a place called Lake Tahoe and there’s lots of dogs there, and trees, and a lake to swim in even though I don’t swim. Swimming is for weird dogs like Jet, but Jet gets to come to camp too. The Mum says that me, Jet and Levi all get to go to camp. Most times people are only supposed to bring two dogs, but she paid a little extra and is bringing three of us. Mum says she can’t bear to leave Levi home, since he’s been before and had a really good time too.

Below I put some pictures that Mum has from the last couple of times she went to camp. The first one is of my friends Zoe and Twist on the beach of Lake Tahoe. Doesn’t it look pretty and fun! The Mum says there are no jobs there, no driving jobs either, it’s just all relaxing and playing with other dogs. I’m really excited to be going! The Mum is too, and really is looking forward to sitting around and doing a lot of relaxing.

The Mum says she and Levi might sit around a lot, while me and Jet run around a lot. And that’d be really fun too! I like to run, and the beach will be great even if I don’t swim. I’ll just play with the other dogs! It sounds like doggie heaven to me!

Zoe and Twist

Levi at Camp:

Levi and Chase

A bit of Camp:

Camp Area


   Jul 15

Lure Coursing

Lure Coursing

The Mum took Chase and Jet Lure Coursing and the Mum took some pictures of the dogs chasing the lure. But it’s not really a live rabbit, it’s just plastic bags. I didn’t go because I don’t like to chase plastic bags. I think it’s kinda dumb. But these sight hounds sure like to do it look at them run!

I’d chase a plastic bag as soon as I’d chase a nurses uniform around the yard. I’d rather chew on bones and eat tuna brownies and do agility!


   Jul 13

I Did Agility Again

Yeap I did! It was kinda hot this time, and I didn’t like it as much as times before. We were inside in a building but even the Mum was sweating, and I was even panting, and I don’t really pant very much usually.

Here is one of my videos. The Mum still says I need to run, but why run when there’s no tuna or livers to run towards?

The Mum is going to read some apidexin reviews to see if maybe I need to lose weight to run faster, but I don’t think so! I just want to run towards tunas or livers and that’d be better!


   Jun 27

Lazy Summers

Me On the AFrame

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?