Tatum Tot Spice

This is our fun TV room now. Can you find where I am? I’m in my most favorite spot. The hoomans here like that chair spot and so that’s why it’s the most special spot, and so I like it too! And I just fit right and snuggly in there.

You can also see Levi on the big bed he has, and Jet is on the grooming table on his little bed too. These are our favorite places in the TV room when we are relaxing.

Sometimes the Mum does her laundry in that room and puts away her clothes and her carhartt jeans. And Jet thinks it’s great fun to steal the Mum’s socks and take them outside and play tug with them. The Mum says they are cheap toys but then the next day she complains that she has no socks!

My brother Levi is getting old, and he doesn’t like to walk up and down the stairs anymore. And so the Mum and the Dad (well, mostly the Dad) build this cool ramp for him so that he doesn’t have to go down or up the back yard stairs anymore.

The Dad built the ramp and then the Mum looked at it and said that it wouldn’t do. Because it was pretty high off the ground and she was afraid we would fall off. Well I wouldn’t fall off, but Levi might ’cause he’s kinda a dork. So then the Dad pup up sides on the ramp so nobody would fall off.

It took us all a while to realize that we couldn’t go around the ramp anymore to go up the stairs. But I figured it out really fast. It took Levi about three days to figure it out. See, he’s kinda a dork, and the ramp is for him! Jet and Chase and Muffit figured it out pretty fast, too.

This picture is of me sunbathing on the ramp. It has a flat spot right out of the dog door so that Levi doesn’t bend his back going out the door. His back had an icky arthritic bridge forming between a couple of his vertebrae on his spine and so it hurts him. The other day Chase pushed Levi over and then Levi hurts for a couple of days and that’s sad, because I don’t like it when Levi hurts ever. Or anyone else either.

Maybe if Chase had some surge protectors he wouldn’t rush out the back door and push Levi over. But it doesn’t take much to push Levi over, which is sad. Levi was a big strong boy and sometimes I can see the Mum leaking from her eyes because she doesn’t want Levi to get old. The Mum loves Levi with all her heart, as she does all of us, and she wants us all to live as long as she does. I wish we all could, too.

Here’s another picture of the ramp when the Dad was building it:

Today at camp me and Jet got the Mum up super early in the morning again so we could go run around a lot and play. I did all my good play moves for Jet and we ran and zoomed around on our way down to the beach. Can we live here? It would be the best!

Then the Mum and me tried this thing called carting. Or sometimes it’s called drafting. There’s lots of working dogs that do it, and sometimes collies like me, too. The Mum always wanted me to try it but didn’t have a harness or cart at home. So we got to today, and it was kinda fun! And the Mum said that I was the best of any of the dogs, even Levi and Jet! So the Mum says maybe she’ll have to buy me a cart and we can do some carting at home, that’d be kinda fun but I’ll have to get used to pulling the thing around! Maybe I can do some Room Director Jobs and boss people around and make some money to buy a cart!

Here are some other pictures from camp today.

The Mum is the coolest Mum in the world know why? She took us to camp! It’s everything she promised and more. Me and Jet got her up really early this morning so we could go out and play on the beach. We are in Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and a 4H camp with lots of other dogs. It’s so way super fun!

There lots of Goldens and Border Collies and even another collie! Her names is Georgia and she’s a rough tri and really pretty and fun to play with! Me and Jet and Levi are here. This morning we went on a fun hike around the camp, then went to play on the beach and get our pictures taken. Me and Levi know how to escape the xpen porch the Mum put up, but she’s made it trickier now for us to get out!

Here are some more pictures:

I am having so very much fun. I got so tired at the beach that I got a little nervous and stopped eating the Mum’s tuna brownies. But that’s okay because we can have lots of rest time too. Maybe some equestrian boots would be good for Mum at the beach so her feet don’t get wet, but maybe sandals will be better!

Today I went to the dog park with the Mum, Levi and Jet. It was really fun and I ran and ran and ran and ran. There was this weird pack of hoomans and mini-hoomans and I usually stay away from them, but today I got a bug and just wanted to run around them! So I did, and I tried to nip at their butts like I do with the Mum at home and the Mum said oooo Tatum people don’t understand that! But she explained to the hoomans that that is what I do and they didn’t mind so it was all good.

It’s still kinda sad around here with Lucy gone. The Mum hasn’t let me on the computer very much so I haven’t really had the time to reply to all the nice people who have sent their best wishes. The Mum is really still very sad and says she’s having a hard time with Lucy not around. But I think the Mum will be okay soon. I sure hope she is anyway. Maybe she needs to look at some bowhunting supplies so we can find another fun place to live with mountains and streams and boulders and hills. Places that would be super fun to run around!

Here is more pictures of me at the park!

Well here is a picture of our whole furry family. There’s me, my smooth blue collie brother Levi, my smooth blue collie sister Lucy, my border collie brother Chase, and my Danish-Swedish Farmdog brother Jet. My border collie brother Muffit isn’t in the picture because he doesn’t know how to pose for pictures. The Mum says he is too frantic and will never hold still so she doesn’t even try. But he’s a good hiker that goes with my Dad all the time!

This is also our Christmas Tree that the Mum and the Dad put up last weekend. I think it’s weird to have a tree in the house. And Muffit just wants to pee on it. And Jet wants to pull all the fun ornaments off (I have pulled a couple off myself!) and so the Mum put an x-pen around it so we can’t. She is a party pooper! Maybe I’ll steal her cheap eyeglasses so that I can chew them instead!

The Mum put the mats over the tile so we can play and train in the winter. The flyball box is there too, for Jet to work on when the Mum has time. And we do some jumps and we do some finding-the-treats-in-the-boxes that the Mum calls K9 Nose Work and it’s all just fun!

Oooo I love going to the park! It’s super fun! Me and Levi and Jet got to go with the Mum and that was lots of fun. So here are some pictures of our fun.

We got to play with other dogs, and yell for Jet when he got lost, and run around in the leaves. It was really neat. We didn’t see any door hardware while we were there, though. We just saw other dogs and got to smell on lots of stuff and pee on lots of stuff and that was really neat.

We get really excited when we first go, and hate the part where we have to walk down the path on our leashes. The Mum says we should walk nice but we never do! We just want to go and run, and we love the running part!

Well I just have to tell the whole world that my brother Levi is kinda dumb. This is a bed that Jet got from his girlfriend Paisley, because she got too big for it. And so it’s a really good bed for me and Jet, though it’s kinda small for me a little bit too.

But it’s really too small for Levi! Levi really likes to lay in beds of all kinds. Especially beds that the other dogs want. He gets kinda a little bit jealous and the Mum is always giggling at him, but he doesn’t know the giggles are because of him, he just wants everything the rest of us want! I bet he wouldn’t want any severe acne if the rest of us had it!

So Levi is a dork. But the Mum loves him anyway. And I guess I do, too.

This is some of my family! Chase and Muffit, the two border collies, were downstairs with the Dad when the Mum was taking our pictures. Later Chase said that they were getting pizza, which is just rude, because I really like pizza too!

This picture has me (I’m the smooth sable collie if you didn’t know!), my brother Levi and my sister Lucy, who are smooth blue collies. And my brother Jet who is the Danish/Swedish Farmdog. Dang he has a long name! Collie is much shorter!

We were running in the yard and the Mum made us all lay down and do a stay so she could take the picture. We did good but then we didn’t get treats. The Mum says we don’t always get treats… bleh. I think we should! If we get the wrong treats though we might need the http://www.blackheadremoval.org website! But we like treats anyway they are yummy!

This is a picture of my brother Levi and then me in the background there. Levi is a blue merle smooth collie and he looks kinda messy don’t you think? I’m a sable smooth collie and I’m much prettier and I don’t look messy… ever, even when I am messy!

So anyway the other day when I was chewing a bone and I thought there was one of my dog brothers or sisters too close to me and so I growled and then I showed my teeth and went after them because they can’t get my bone… but guess what? It was the Mum I went after! So she grabbed my collar and told me that no I can’t do that… ooo the Mum wasn’t mad though, but she didn’t like it! Of course I stopped right away though because I’d never hurt the Mum, or any other dog or person really. I just like to sound mean!

So the Mum said I don’t get any promotional items for bones and treats and things next time she sees them… but I bet she’ll bring me some anyway!