Tatum Tot Spice CGC

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!

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 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!

The Mum got these really yummy big chewies that she calls Bully Sticks. Mmmm they are so yummy! So I like to lay on the couch and chew on mine. It lasts a really long time and I usually don’t like it when the Mum says everyone is done and takes them all away! But we get to chew on them for a long time and that is super pawesome! And I really love to lay on the comfy blankets on the couch when I chew. We have so many comfy beds and blankets to lay on it’s just really super nice.

Oh and yesterday the Mum took me to an agility place and we did some agilities. It was fun too. There was no plasma mounts there but the A Frame was there and the Dog Walk and lots of jumps. I’m not too crazy about jumps though. The Mum says she has some ideas to convince me that they are more fun to go over than to go around. I dunno though. I like the A Frame and the Dog Walk and the Teeter much better than the jumps!

We’ll see if she can convince me the jumps are fun too, though!

So the Mum was talking to me the other day and she said “Tatum, we should be ready for agility by next March!” And I looked at her and didn’t know that she would be right or not, because that’s far and that’s close and we’ll need to practice a lot until then, so the Mum learns how to tell me where to go! Maybe if we both were wearing a Bluetooth headset she could whisper it to me when we are running amok around.

This isn’t my Mum in this picture, this is my Aunt Edie who teaches my Mum how to tell me where to go.  And this is the dog walk and I think it’s a really super fun thing to walk on.  But it’s gonna get cold really soon and so we won’t have the nice green grass to run on anymore. And the snow is too slippery.  And so we won’t be able to practice so the Mum knows what she’s doing.

But either way it’ll be fun. I have been to the agility places before and they are not scary, they are really fun and I eat lots of treats there. OH and the Mum made Tuna Brownies (my very favorites!) and put them on top of the fridge last night and forgot them there, so I have been smelling them all day and I really want some now!

So here is me doing what the Mum calls Weave Polls for agility. I don’t really get it yet but I think I’m figuring it out.  This is a three and a half minute video of the Mum and Aunt Edie trying to let me figure them out by myself. At first I really don’t know what I’m supposed to do to get to the Mum and the yummy treats she has but then I start to understand!

So see how smart I am and how I figure it out? With all this weaving in and out of the polls I’ll get some big weight loss I think! The Mum says she’s gonna do this every day with me now so I can learn how to do them. And wiggle and move weird through them. And then she’ll move the guide thingies away as I understand better what I’m doing.

So it’s kinda fun and I think it’s weird too but I’m gonna figure it out!

So I had fun with the Mum yesterday we did some agility lessons. It was fun! I went over three jumps all in a row. Then the Mum had this square thing set up with jumps and she would move in front of me so that I’d go to a different jump other than the one in front of me, and she called it a Front Cross. I kinda got it but then I thought why go over the jump when I can just go get the cookie on the white plate? Well the Mum wouldn’t let me so I had to go over the jumps, but they are fun too!

So I got to eat cookies and go up on the fun A-Frame thingy too. And I’m learning what the Mum wants me to do in those weird Weave Poll things but they are confusing. Maybe I just need to break some air intakes into my lungs and take it easy and relax and eat cookies!

The Mum says I can go practice agility tomorrow morning too so that’ll be fun!