Tatum Tot Spice

This weekend the Mum took me, Muffit and Chase to an agility trial. Chase was the only one who got to do agility, but me and Muffit got to eat treats and walk around. And I got to run and play with Chase. It was fun. And when we were running around yesterday I saw this lady and thought maybe she’d have some treats, so went to check her out. The Mum got all excited because I went to someone on my own. Well duh, maybe she had treats! And I know humans have been kinda scary in the past but they usually have treats now and I like treats!

The Mum had me step into this box thing in front of her and get treats. And she’d say Front, which I guess is what that means. It was pretty easy though at first I didn’t like the box much. Then she threw this toy thing around and I wanted to go after it a little… when I found out it had treats in it! Way cool! But when the Mum let Chase out too today and we both ran after it… Chase doesn’t play fair ’cause he gets it every time, so I went off to sniff instead ’cause it was way hot and there were lots of smells to check out.

But the grass was nice even though I didn’t get to say hi to as many dogs as I would have liked. I said hi to some people and they had treats too and so that was good. The lady by the car had treats I’d never tried before so I pushed them onto the ground with my nose so I could smell them. I wasn’t sure what they were so I didn’t eat them much. I always have to test out treats before I’ll eat them, you just never know if the Mum or Dad is sneaking in a dumb apple thing or carrot, and those are not food!

I am tired now and am going to take a big long nap as it was a hot tiring weekend!

The Mum took me and Chase on another trip for Chase to do flyball. It was fun… and really hot. The Mum said it got up to 103 degrees outside. We were inside so we were okay, but the Mum got nervous a bit and was pouring water on both me and Chase and YUCK that part sucked! But then it did feel kinda good because I perked up my tail after I got wet and the breeze in my wet coat wasn’t so bad.

I also got a couple of massages from a really nice lady. And whenever the Mum and I walked by her place I ran over and stood on her mat. Because mats are cool and her’s was comfy and she was a really nice lady. I liked her massages though I didn’t want to really let her know too much because I’m juts that way.

This picture is of me sleeping in the hotel room. The hotel room was nice and cool and comfy. We went to St. George Utah and Chase got another flyball title, called his Top Flight Executive. The Mum says I can do flyball one day when I learn not to run around and play with the other dogs and don’t have the zoomies so much… but what fun is that?

GADS the Mum hasn’t let me on the computer forEVER! I mean it. She’s been doing computer things and says no time, Tatum, no time! And for us chatty collies we need computer time! Bah!

So she got a new camera, she thinks it’s pretty fancy and wanted me to put up these pictures of me that she took in the back yard. Chase likes to play with me in the snow, though still he doesn’t chase me ’round and ’round like I like. But he’s the best playmate I got so I live with it. Oh, except the Mum. She’s great to play with. I get to nip her in the but, and she squeals and it’s so fun!

But the Mum says that when I first came she wanted me to start playing with her a lot, and now that I know I’m safe here that I have to learn some playing rules and we get to play when the Mum wants. What about what I want? Bah. I’ll just nip her in the but to play anyway.

Chase is my brother. He’s a border collie. The Mum and Dad say that he was their first ‘foster failure’, and I was their second. I guess sometimes when hoomans help doggies that don’t have anywhere to go, and let us stay with them for a while, they tend to fall in loves with us and we stay forever. And it’s nice when hoomans fall in love with us and let us stay forever, because we like having soft beds and a nice cozy house to live in!

So the Mum and the Dad said they fell in loves with us, even though they already had Lucy, Levi and Angel living with them. But we like living here too. And anyway, who would be able to not fall in love with me and Chase? We are both awesome puppers, collie and border collie. Even though some people say Chase is kinda funny looking as he doesn’t have very much white. I like him being black!

So anyway the Mum says it takes Chase a while to get used to other dogs in our house. At first he didn’t like us collies… well, the ones that came after him. He likes Lucy, Levi and Angel just fine. But me he wasn’t very sure of. So the Mum and the Dad kept him separate from us a lot. He goes over this gate that keeps the kitties in their room. Chase can jump it even! He’s the only one that can. I don’t want to, it’s too tall.

But now Chase is starting to really like me, ’cause I play with him and the other collies don’t play as much. So the Mum got these pictures of me and Chase whispering to each other, and playing with this tennis ball. Doesn’t Chase look mean when he plays? All his teeth show and sometimes the Mum doesn’t know if he’s playing or growling! When he growls no sound comes out so sometimes we don’t know if he’s really grumpy or not.

Playing with Chase is fun! I got tired, though, and left him because yesterday wore me out!

Me and my brother Chase waiting in our pen at Obedience Practice.
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