Tatum Tot Spice

I just wanted to show you this cute picture of me and my sister Lucy. Lucy is the pack marm though I really want to be. I usually respect her place but sometimes I want to push her around and I try really really hard to listen to the Mum and not push her around but.. it can be hard.

Lucy doesn’t let me push her around, though, she growls and snarls and doesn’t let me. Gah! It’s frustrating. But I do like Lucy a lot, and the Mum says she’s sick and might have cancer and might not be with us very much longer. But for now Lucy is still boss and I have to listen to what she says!

Wow the Mum wants me to learn so many things! But I am not only beautiful, I am also very smart. I like to touch her hand with my front feet now. When I do, I get the click and the treat to happen. And when I get on my mat, the Mum has made it harder. Now I have to do something else, and I think it’s the lay down but I’m still figuring that one out. Sometimes I’ll stand on my mat for a while before I lay down. Sometimes I paw her and I’m not sure which she wants! But I’m learning fast, and soon I’ll be knowing it all and I will get to teach the Mum.

After the Mum teaches me with the clicker then she teaches my new brother, Muffit! Did I tell you I have a new brother? Well, his name is Muffit. The Mum calls him WhosaMuffit but that’s just weird. I guess he lived here a while a couple of years ago, then went to a new family. But they didn’t end up wanting to let him live there anymore, so they put him in a really icky place, a scary place, and he got really sick until the Dad found out he was there (’cause of some chip thing) and went to get him out.

So now the Dad told the Mum that he’s going to stay! Yay! I like him and he is fun to play with, as you can tell from this picture. And he is not sick anymore which is good, his runny nose was kinda gross.

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.

So the Mum pulled out the clicker today and wanted me to learn something new. Man, so many new things! The Mum said Lucy knows how to do this and she’ll show me later.. but she wanted me to try it first on my own.

So out come the liver treats too.. man those are good. The Mum just bakes them in the oven for a while then cuts them up, and we all stand around and I want to eat them, and sometimes I want the other dogs to go away… oooo the Mum is telling me I am blogging about the chimes, not the liver! Okay well anyway so she led me toward the Chimes with some of the yummy liver and made them ring. And it was kinda freaky I didn’t like the noise much.

So after the Mum put all those Livers on the chime, she walked away and sat on the couch and watched to see what I would do. Well I knew that darn liver was on the chimes.. but when I tried to get it off on my own, it would make funny tinkly noise. And the Mum says that’s the point, but I didn’t really like it. So I wanted the Mum to hold the chime steady so I could just eat the Livers off!

Well after I wouldn’t get the livers off, the Mum let Lucy come out to show me how it was done. Oh My Gosh. Lucy just ran right over there and tinkled all the chimes, not afraid at all, to get the livers off! She would push it with her nose then look at the Mum, and the Mum would give her more livers. And if Lucy didn’t get livers fast enough, she would push at the chimes again and again and make them fly all over the place! Wow Lucy!

I am not as enthusiastic when it’s just me and the Mum like Lucy is. Lucy danced all over wondering what the Mum wants her to do so she can get some livers. But me, I am not so sure about being alone with the Mum yet, and not so sure about what is going on. So I’m a bit more slow and I think more (thus I get a thinking award yay!). But the Mum says it’ll come, I haven’t lived here too long yet, and it’s all good and yummy and fun. And then after I got to play with Chase on the couch and that was super fun!

Oh, the Mum says that she wants me to ring the Chimes to tell me when I need to go out potty when the dog door is closed. Whatever. I just stare at the door, and that works!

Oh, and the Mum is going to Los Angelez tomorrow and taking her computer with her so I won’t be able to blog until she gets back! Boo!

This is me with a Venison bone. Yummy huh!? It’s really good. I took mine and laid next to Tony on his chew mat and then I growled at him to get off ’cause I wanted the whole mat to myself. The Mum kept telling me to stop because Tony was there first and I moved next to him. But Gah I’m boss of Tony!

And the Mum isn’t too bad to sleep next too. This was last night and I love to sleep on my back. This is the Mum and she’s in her PJ’s so she wanted only a small picture of her on my blog. (But if you click on it you’ll see her bigger bahahaa.. don’t tell her I said so!)

The Mum said we chewed up all the bones but I want more! She got the insides out for us though and they were super yummy. They are hard, she had to use her monkey fingers and a knife even, because it was pretty hard to get out!

So the Mum has told me that she has changed the domain something name of my cool blog. It was www.TatumTail.com but she didn’t want to wait for that name to move to the new host… not sure how you can move a name, can’t you just rename something? Whatever.

So she changed the name of my this cool blog to http://www.tatumtot.com/. You can still reach it from http://www.tatumtail.com/ if you want to. And once the domain is old enough (how can a name be old?) she says 60 days old, then she’ll move it too but since my blog is new then it is going to take a while and man this is a long sentence. BREATHE.

I talk fast!

So the Mum is cutting up these super yummy treats today in the kitchen and she says they are for our going out to practice agility and obedience and stuff today at the cold barn. And for tomorrow, too, when I get to go to puppy class and see Bindy and Feisty and the other fun puppies. But when she’s cutting them all up me and the rest of the pack stand at the counter by her legs and want her to give us some.

And I just really think that I should get them all, and all the other dogs need to go away. So I tell them that! I growl at them and bark and even bite at them. But not hard ’cause I’m a nice collie and I don’t ever hurt anyone. But really don’t they know that I am their pack leader? Lucy doesn’t think so, she thinks she is, and we have to work this out between us ’cause I think I am even though Lucy has been here longer. I’m cuter anyway, and spunkier, than her.

So Hrmph. I think I should get all the treats so I tell the other dogs so, and the Mum she is so mean!!! She takes me by the collar and marches me into the bathroom and I have to stay for three minutes all by myself!! She is cutting up really good stuff like Lamb Liver and Lamb Heart, too. I love that stuff! I want it all!

The other dogs don’t like it when I growl and bite at them but I don’t care! The Mum let me out of the bathroom again.. and I tried to not growl I really did, but it’s so hard… so I growled again and the Mum marched me back into the bathroom!

I hate it in there I don’t get any liver or any hearts. The Mum let me out again and I tried really really hard again, I stayed in the back of the pack for a while but I got brave again and moved in… and for the third time got marched into the bathroom. HRMPH!

When she let me out the last time all the yummy treats were gone. She says if I learn to be nice and stand there with the other dogs, then I’ll get to eat the treats too, but.. it’s just so hard!

Oh look at this fun website that has so many pictures of pretty Christmas Collies! It’s through the American Working Collie Association.. they are such a fun club. My brother Levi has a versatilities title through them says the Mum. Because he can herd and do agility and obedience and he’s so pretty he was a pretty champion so he’s done lots of stuff.

I want to do lots of stuff too!

So check out the Christmas Collies!