Tatum Tot Spice

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!

The Mum is so dorky! First she says to me she says “Tatum, you are gonna come with Chase and me to the flyball Semeenars and we will have fun!” Then she said… “Tatum, I don’t think you can go, because we won’t have room in the car.”

And then today she says “Tatum, guess what! You do get to go, and you get your own Semeenar too!”

What is up with this? Well, I hope I can go. She sent money in the mail today, and as long as they get it in time, I get to have a Semeenar all for my own. Just for one day, it’s the day before Chase’s semeenar. And the Mum says it’s for Puppies and Green dogs. Well, I’m not green, I’m sable, but I’m not a puppy either. But the Mum says I really am Green, ’cause Green means new, and I still think I’m not Green but What Ever!

So we get to go a day early and I get to go to the Green Dog semeenar, and I get to learn how to run with other dogs and chase them… err… I mean not chase them (we’ll see about that!). And go over jumps and do something with a box and maybe there will be a cone, too, with liver on it!

Should be fun!

Went to puppy class yesterday! That was fun. There were a lot of dogs there. My buddy Rift was there and I wanted to play with him. And my friend Anya was there, the little tiny rotty girl. And there was a big fuzzy black Bernese Mountain dog who was cute and I wanted to play with her. The only little puppy was Anya, but still it was fun. And I got to meet Luna, she is a really pretty border collie girl. The humans were talking about poor Luna. There is probably something wrong with her tummy. Usually the humans give us yummy treats to let us know we did something good. Well, Luna has a hurt tummy, and treats make her sick, and so she has been avoiding things that she gets treats for! Isn’t that awful! It’d be no fun at all if treats made you sick!

So luna gets to go to the doggie doctor to find out what is wrong with her poor tummy. She was so wiggly and fun, I wanted us all to play! The the Mum and the Teacher Lady wouldn’t let us. Booo!

And now the Mum says maybe I can’t go to the semeenars for flyball with Chase, cause another fllyball dog on the team, Chase Me, might go instead. Hrmph. Oh well, we will see if I can go or not. If not, I get to stay home and play with Lucy, Levi and Angel. Yay for Play!

The Mum says that me and Chase are going to go to a Semeenars in March to learn how to do flyball. But I only get to watch, and Chase gets to run and run and run. I don’t think it’s fair! I think I should be able to run and run and run too! I like to run just as much as Chase does and I’m faster than him too!

Well, at least I get to go. The Mum says we get to stay in a Hotel and go and play where it’s warmer than here. It’s in Las Vegas in another month. Though the Mum also said she doesn’t know for sure if we will get in because these Semeenars are popular and lots of people like to go.

I think it’ll be fun to play with Chase in the hotel. The Mum says i have to be quiet at night, it’ll be my first time in a hotel and I guess there are sounds at night that need to be barked at. But Chase and Levi don’t care about the sounds anymore so maybe I won’t either.

Am gonna learn Flyball too, and I want the Mum to send me out to the cone more! But she says I need to learn how to tug on toys with her. And I’m still not sure about that. I like to play and nip her in the butt. But I don’t hold onto the toys much!

Okay so the Mum set up this orange cone thingy in the basement today. She was reading these white papers I really wanted to eat earlier today, but she wouldn’t let me she said they were important for flyball. I’ve been to watch Chase do flyball and it looks fun but I want to play with the other dogs instead of go over jumps. But it’d be fun to chase the other dogs down the line of jumps!

Anyway so the Mum put the cone and I wanted to sniff it so I did and whaaa! I made a click! Then I got a piece of liver. So I stared that the Mum’s hands and then she put them behind her. I hate it when she does that. I don’t like looking at her face or eyes much yet so I look at her hands instead. They hold the treats anyway. But then she put a piece of liver on the cone and when I went to eat it I made the click again! And then she put the liver on the cone for a while and so I kept making a click when I ate it. Was fun! And then she’d put the cone waaaaay over on the other side of the room and I wanted to go check it out to see if it had liver on it and guess what? It did!

Some of the time the cone didn’t have any liver on it but I went to see anyway, and when I touched it with my nose I made the click happen and then went back to the Mum for the liver. Yummy! The Mum says that this is gonna help my flyball as well as my obedience go outs. And even my distance work for agility. I dunno about any of that yet I just like to go and get liver from the cone, and make the click happen.

Then the Mum wanted to play and chase me around the house but I just wanted liver and I was kinda tired. The Mum said I’m supposed to get really excited and run to the cone and then run back really fast. But she was using liver, not toys, and I don’t get fast about liver. So she says soon we’ll have to stop doing the liver and just use the toy to get me super excited. After we did the cone stuff and some weird stuff with cheese on a stick I only played with Chase and the Mum outside in the yard for a few minutes. Now I’m sleeping on the couch next to the Mum. We gots to chew yummy bones again this morning and oh I should put up a picture of me chewing that the Mum took! I’ll go do that too.