Tatum Tot Spice

So the Mum has been doing more clicker stuff with me. It’s so fun I don’t want it to stop. Why does she have to stop? And then work with Muffit, Chase and Levi? She should just always work with me!

I figured out that touching her hand with my foot makes the click! So now I do it a lot. It’s fun. And then she put down this white cardboard thing and I touched it with my foot, and it made the click too! And then the Mum got me a new mat.. it’s a Mutt Matt and it’s neat! And now when I get on it the click doesn’t happen.. so I stand there for a minute and then when I lay down, that makes the click! This collie likes her mat!

It kinda sucks that just standing on the Mutt Mat doesn’t make the click anymore, but I can lay down, too. That is also fun so I’ll just do that now.

The Mum put the white cardboard on the flyball box too, and I would touch it to get the click to happen. But she’s still not sure how to get me up on there with all four feet. So when until she figures that out, I will just eat cookies.

The Mum is confused about how to teach me a good swimmers turn on the box so she is trying some different stuff. There is this blog that has information on clicking and the swimmer’s turn, and the Mum wants me to read it but I don’t want to so the Mum is gonna clicker train me somehow.

So she put a treat in her hand and I wanted it so I just nibbled at it with my teeth. And she was talking and said to herself she said “hmmm, I don’t want you to learn how to nibble fingers” so instead, she put the treat in her fist and then she moved it away from me when I was laying down.

I’d move a bit to see if I could get it, and sometimes she would click, and sometimes she would not. Could it be from when I moved my foot? I don’t know yet but I’m thinking about it. I gotta figure out what she wants me to do. She says we will work on it again later in the day and maybe take some more pictures of me because I’m so beautiful.

So the Mum finally got home from Los Angeles and the Clicker Expo! She says next time she wants to take me with. I would love to go! She said that I would have to learn to fly on an airplane. Well, I was on an airplane once, and I could do it again. She said that she wants to find ways to make it so I’m not scared. And she wants to get me to be a therapy dog. So she ordered me a vest and she’s gonna start to take me everywhere she can. ‘Cause I still get nervous sometimes at different places.

But it will be fun to learn all this stuff. She wants to take me out every day, but today she is sick so she might not take me anywhere. She even stayed home from work she is so sick! She can’t breathe very well and says her head is all stuffied up.

Well anyway at least I get to be on the laptop again. She also got a new lens for her camera and took this fun picture of me outside. We got a new brother too, that the Dad really wants to keep but then there will be so many of us in the house! So we’ll have to see where that all goes, but he is fun and he’s a border collie like Chase so he likes to run and play with me.

So when my vest comes I’ll have the Mum take a picture of me and post it up!