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Sasha

So the Mum calls me from work (okay she really called the Dad but I listened in) and told us that we are going to get a foster sister! Her name is Sasha and her people couldn’t keep her anymore and so dropped her off at the Utah Humane Society. I don’t know if Sasha was a very happy girl or not… the Humane Society people said that her nose is all scarred from her rubbing it on a chain link fence. And that is just kinda super sad. So she might have had to live outdoors instead of inside with a loving family. And the family that left her didn’t leave any information about her… but the nice lady at HSU said that she might not know to potty outside instead of inside (but sometimes I forget to do that too) and that’s okay at our house.

The Mum says we might need some wholesale shampoo because when long fuzzy haired rough collies come to us right from a shelter, they can be matted and even stinky.  So the Mum says tonight she is gonna probably be giving brushes and baths. So I better hide in case the Mum decides that I need a bath too. I don’t like baths but I like when our foster brothers and sisters smell better!

I’ll let you know tomorrow how Sasha is and if she will play with me. I just have to tell my brother Chase to be nice to her because the HSU is not a fun place to have to stay… my brother Muffit stayed there for a while and he got super sick and he says it wasn’t fun at all, a home is a much better place.  So I’m excited to meet Sasha!

Okay… the Mum made me, and all the other dogs here, all other five of them, get in the tub today. It was awful! I got all wet! She made me all wet! I hated it. I even squealed a little bit. I wouldn’t let her take any pictures of me when I was wet.

She says I’m all soft and I smell good now. But I don’t want to be soft and I don’t want to smell good. Not if it means getting all wet, then all sudsy, then all wet again. The Mum said I’m easy because my coat is short and not so thick, and I dry quickly. Well, I still hated it!

But I suffered through then I got a bully stick and that was yummy.

Well even though the Mum didn’t take me out at all yesterday, she sure made up for it today! I was going to have the Mum show a picture but she says the camera is all the way upstairs, and we are all sitting on the couch blogging or sleeping and no one wants to go aaaalll the way upstairs for it.

Anyway the Mum checked her email this morning and her trainer said that obedience lessons start at 9am today. So! She fed us and showered and off we went. Oh, but before that I had to wake her up, because she was sleeping in the morning and sleeping is no fun in the morning, playing is! And so I jumped on her when she was in bed and it was just the exact minute she sat up and BAMB my forehead hit her forehead and ouch it hurt both of us! But she just laughed and got out of bed.

So we got up and had breakfast and then went out for obedience. I didn’t get to do much but watch Chase and the Mum practice their weird things they do. At the end, though, I got to get out and play with my new border collie friend! He is 9 months old and man he liked running around! And then I got to go to the fun mat the Mum has set up, and do our sits and downs and stuff. And I even ran around and played with her some, and walked next to her following a treat. She said it’s called ‘heeling’ but I only did it for a couple seconds at a time and boy those treats are good!

Then me and Angel went to the flyball captain’s house ’cause she does an icky thing.. she gives dogs baths and brushes and makes them pretty… and that’s not so bad but we didn’t have that done. We had our toenails clipped! It was awful! But the Captain lady said we were not so bad and I have to admit it does feel better to have shorter toenails. Even though I hate my feet touched! The Mum says she wants to me to get used to a thing called dremmel but the noise is so loud…

Then we stopped by PetCo which is scary but Angel came so it wasn’t so bad. Then we got to go home and take a big long nap before dinner.

Whew! It was a long day and the laptop hasn’t been on until now so I can blog about my day. And now I just want to sleep! Tomorrow the Mum says we are going to go to our super nice obedience instructor for something called a Private Lesson so she can make sure she teaches me all the right stuff right from the beginning so she doesn’t have to fix anything later. But I don’t know why she would have to fix anything because I’m pretty perfect just the way I am!