Tatum Tot Spice

Okay so this isn’t really an easy game at all DESPITE what it looks like from Muffit playing the game. I am posting two videos, the first one is of me playing, and the second one is of my brother Muffit playing. The Mum didn’t want to put all six of us’s videos on Tip Tail so she is having me put me and Muffit’s videos on my blog.

But my blog is better and more fun anyway than hers. If you want to see Lucy playing the Muffin Tin Game you’ll have to go over to Tip Tail!

The Mum says this is a super fun thing to do on these cold winter days where we all just stay in the house and sleep and don’t do much. And I’ve been kinda cranky at Lucy and Angel and Chase lately and the Mum says ‘nooo Tatum don’t be grumpy at them’ so the Mum is saying she needs to bring in a crate for me but HRMPH I don’t want a crate I want to run and run and run! No need for weight loss products for me because I just run!

So here is me playing the Magic Muffin Tin Game and so what if I’m not all that fast at it? I’m sure the cutest at it! Mine is about 9 minutes long so if you like looking at how cute I am please watch! Muffit’s is only a couple minutes long so you don’t have to watch him as much.

So here is Muffit playing yeah okay so he’s cute what of it?

So that is the Magic Muffin Tin Game have you ever played before? If you haven’t maybe the Mum or the Dad in your house can set it up and you can play and take a video ’cause I want to see you other superdogs play too!

We had a busy weekend and I didn’t have any time to post anything at all! The Mum took me, Muffit, Levi and Chase out to an agility trial!  It was fun and Sunday we got to run and run and run on the grassy area a little bit too.  The Mum says, though, it’s hard to let all four of us run when Muffit and I don’t come back very well yet.  But we just like to run!

The Mum didn’t even get any pictures of me she only got some of Muffit when he was lying on his mat. Though he did a really good job and he didn’t keep me awake in my crate all day! He was really quite in his own crate! The Mum was happy with him too.  And he doesn’t much like to wear his gentle leader but the Mum says it helps him a lot instead of choking him on his collar.

Me and the Mum went and practiced something called Rally-O.  And i didn’t really know what she wanted me to do, but I followed her around and I wanted to sniff all the signs that were out.  So the Mum let me sniff some of them and then said “Tatum let’s work!” and working is usually fun ’cause I learn stuff and get to eat lots of treats.  But I was really distracted because there was agility going on and lots of dogs around so it was kinda hard for me. But the Mum was glad my tail stayed up and I stayed happy the whole time and I did!

So it was fun and no one got hurt with cerebral palsy so that was really good. Chase and Levi won the Mum a lot of ribbons and that makes the Mum very happy!

Today I went with the Mum, Chase, Muffit and Angel to flyball practice. Angel got to come ’cause the Mum says she doesn’t get to go out much and she really likes to come and say hi to people and eat treats. And Chase’s tooth is better so he got to play tug. And Muffit got to go to and the Mum thinks he is doing better with all the distractions!

And so lookit what I got to do! Finally the dumb Mum remembered to ask Aunt Christy to take pictures of me as I’m learning the jumps and aren’t I cute! And I’m fast too!

This first jump is Aunt Laurie holding onto me so I can run over all the jumps!

Then when I see the Mum call me from the other side of the jumps, and then the Mum runs off and I just have to chase her! And I go over all four jumps and it’s fun! The Mum wasn’t running at first and that was kinda boring so I’d go run off by myself but then when the Mum started to run, I ran too!

Lookit me go! It’s super fun to learn to go over jumps! The Mum says I am a really fast collie girl when I want to be. And yup that’s true, it’s when I want to be! I like to do things my own way and then it’s fun!

Woo Hoo!

And aren’t I just the cutest collie you’ve ever seen doing flyball jumps! The jumps don’t have any ball lock pins, they are just wood aren’t they neato?

A Treat For Reward!

And then at the end of the jumps the Mum gives me yummy treats! They are super good to eat and so I stop and eat them right up!

So I get to do flyball more in a couple of weeks! I hope the Mum starts to teach me how to do the box… she says the prop thingy she had isn’t tall enough and I just walk over it, I don’t jump. So if she’d ever remember to have the Dad make a taller one, then we could learn more!

I like flyball and learning. Though I like to do it how I want to. But the Mum says if we are going to compete then I have to learn her rules.  Well, I guess I’ll do that too then!  Flyball is fun!

The Disembodied Food Hand

Today is a rest day ’cause the Mum says she needs rest days. i don’t know why because I have every day as a rest day almost. Except the learning days which are more fun than the rest days. So are the running amok in the dog park and getting lost for 20 minutes days. But today is a rest day not a running or learning day.  Tomorrow will be a flyball day and I’m excited for that!

I just kinda wanted to show you a picture of how the Mum is supposed to teach me how to do things.  See the disembodied hand that has yummy treats in it? Well that is always supposed to be there! And the Mum thinks she wants me to do some things without that hand there with the treats in it. HRMPH.

So when the hand goes away so does my attention. I like food and dogs and running!  The Mum tells me I’ll like agility too and I probalby will. It’s just that the Mum and I have to work out who is boss and what we do between the agility stuff.  And I think I should tell her what to do, but she thinks she should tell me what to do.  So the Mum is trying to be firm with me and, well, yeah I guess i give in.  ‘Cause she is the Mum after all. And even though before I came to live here and I lived in the icky place that didn’t have enough food or water, and sometimes I still get afraid of hoomans even though they seem pretty nice, I think some of them are trustworthy even though I’m still testing them all!

Well pooh, the Mum is gonna be taking a long trip and she’s leaving on Saturday, which is the day after tomorrow for all you doggers who aren’t sure what day of the week it is. Saturday is hooman stay home day and training day and have fun day, but not this week for me!

The Mum says she’s going to be going on a big boat, whatever that is. And it’s on the water.. I know what water is! And she’s going to be gone for a whole week!

A cool thing, though, when the Mum gets back guess what we are gonna do… guess guess guess!! Oh.. give up? Ookay then!

We are gonna do Cyber Agility!!!!! I am so excited! The Mum says it should be super fun for both of us, and she might teach Muffit some of the stuff too. I already now how to walk through polls and that’s a good start! And I know how to do the clicker too and that’s a good thing! It’s all clicker trained and it’ll be a ton of fun.

But we can’t start until she gets back. Poopers! Oh well, I will just bite the Dad in the butt until the Mum gets back and we get to play. The Mum says she will take us places in my minivan (she drives for me ’cause all princesses have drivers) and will make sure our auto insurance is up to date and then we can play in the park and learn at the park too. Ooo how fun!

I’ll be posting updates on my agility lessons! And I hope to get online on the Dad’s computer once in a while when the Mum is gone. She doesn’t leave until Saturday so I hope to post a bit more before she goes!

So the Mum took me out into the front yard today and she had lots of treat! And a clicker and some other stuff too. And she was teaching me what she wanted me to do. Sometimes it’s kinda a guessing game with Hoomans, they want us to do stuff, but we are not sure what. It’d be nice if they spoke dog but they are learning to so that’s good.

This movie is a little over three minutes long and you don’t have to watch it if you don’t want to. But it’s of me and me in videos is always neato!

So I got the idea that the Mum wants me to walk through these polls! And so I did! And it was fun. The Mum says she’ll be increasing the criteria next time, to make it harder, but I am smart so I know I’ll be able to figure it out! When we work out in the front yard, there’s no poop, and no office furniture to move out of the way, and no couches. Though it will get cold soon… so we will have to learn inside anyway.

So check me out! I had tons of fun doing this, see my tail up in the air? That means I’m happy!

When I go outside I like to play. And that usually means running around and hopping like a bunny and getting all silly. I wish one of my brothers and sisters would chase me around the tree, but they don’t, they are boring!

The Mum sometimes put her monkey hands out in claws and crouches down and pretends to chase me… that used to scare me but not anymore. Sometimes I still act like I’m scared and I kinda cower down but my tail stays up and so the Mum isn’t fooled. And I do go running off so I can’t fool her that way either. Oh well, she’s kinda smart sometimes.

So after I go out and we run and run, then I come in, and then I have to potty. I forget when I’m outside because it’s so much fun and so much running! The Mum and the Dad don’t get mad at me or anything… but when we are outside they keep saying ‘potty’ but I just kinda look at them ’cause I’d rather play. They say I need to learn to go outside to potty, and not inside on the tiles. And I will.. but then I go out, and then I forget! It’s just hard to remember!

The Mum can get me to play more than the Dad. And I have to be moving before I potty, I can’t just go cold turkey. But I can eat cold Turkey!

Do you potty inside or outside? Do you forget? Oooo don’t forget!

This is me and my sheltie friend Zoe! Isn’t she pretty? We are sniffing out the water at the stream at the dog park we went to a bit ago. It was fun. I like to run around at the dog park and I like it when Zoe and her Mum and her brother and sisters come with too.

The Mum isn’t doing much with us this weekend, though yesterday she put yummy cheese on this plastic dumbbell thingy that she says she wants me to do something with. So I’d lick it off and get a click and a treat for licking. It was easy! The Mum usually gets harder though, so we’ll see what she wants me to do with it next. After a bit she’d only click me if I’d lick it first, and then she’d give me the cheese. And that I learned super mighty fast!

She says we are gonna learn indoor things as the weather gets colder. That’s fine by me. I like indoor things too even though outdoor is more fun ’cause we get to run around!