Tatum Tot Spice

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!

My sister Lucy had to leave us yesterday. The Mum and the Dad are really super sad. She was a really fun sister to have around and we will all miss her forever and ever. The Mum is crying a lot and I try to do head rubs on her and hopefully that helps her because I don’t like it when the Mum is sad. She’s sitting around on the couch a lot and watching the weird TV and drinking Rum. But I think she’ll be okay in a few days.

Mum and Me wants to thank all the wonderful people who have come and posted their love and thoughts here on my blog and on Facebook too. Wow we are so surprised and so happy about this. Lucy was in a lot of pain and she could hardly walk or stand anymore, her muscles were all giving out on her and she wasn’t having any fun anymore. So now she gets to run and play someplace really cool and do things that maybe we’ll do someday too. Hopefully she is watching over us. The Mum has been watching for her and says she can feel Lucy too sometimes even now.

Thanks everyone so much for your kind words, it’s so hard when one of the pack has to go and leave forever and we will miss them and our hearts all break in big crumbles. But our hearts heal back up again with a big chunk missing. But we never forget anyone ever.

This is my big sister Lucy, and next to me she’s the only other girl collie in our house. Lucy is the Pack Marm and she used to push me around when she was younger and stronger. But now she’s getting really old and she’s not strong anymore.

The Mum and the Dad say that Lucy has to leave us forever this Wednesday. The Mum and the Dad have been doing a lot of crying because they don’t want Lucy to go. I don’t really understand where she’s going to go or why, but they say that Levi is going to go with to say goodbye to Lucy on Wednesday.

The Mum says I’ll see her again someday, but not in this world, and not for a long time.

So no one is really happy at our house except Jet, who just doesn’t seem to understand sadness at all, and he bounces around like a goof and looks through bridal shower invitations and tries to chew them up just like he chews up everything else.

So if I don’t post for a while it’s because the Mum is crying and us dogs and Dad are trying to make her feel better.

Sometimes… well okay all the times, I think that the whole couch should really just be for me and the other dogs shouldn’t lay on the couch at all. And so when another dog is on the couch, like my big sister Lucy is here, I think that maybe if I growl at her that’ll show her that I want the whole couch for myself and for her to get off.

The Mum and Dad say I have to share the couch but I like it all to myself. So this is a picture of me and Lucy on the webcam that the Mum saved from the other day. You can see all my teeth are out when I was growling. I’m not a mean collie and I never bite anyone or anydog because I know that my teeth are really strong. But I like the show them off, aren’t they pretty and white?

I don’t even bite the Mum or the Dad when they do super awful torture stuff like dremel my nails or give me baths. I just put my tail under my belly and look at them all sad and try to squirm away because I hate it so bad. Even though it doesn’t hurt I still don’t like that stuff!

But I do like to growl sometimes and the Mum says I have a very pretty growl, which I do!

This month Lucy, my sister, turned 12 years old. That is really kinda old for us doggies. I’m only almost five years old. So I’m pretty young as dogs go. But Lucy, she’s been around for a really long time and the Mum and the Dad decided she needed to have a Birthday Pizza for her 12th Birthday.

So here is my sister Lucy eating her pizza. We all got some and it was really yummy! I’m pretty picky about what I like to eat, but I really love Birthday Pizza!

I just hope we won’t need any acne cream because the birthday pizza could make us break out!

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!

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!

Okay so this just totally not fair… do you see the bed that Lucy is laying in? Well, that’s my new bed, and she doesn’t even fit! She’s too big! Maybe she could get some discount rugs to lay on because I really want my bed back. And I have a nasty look on my face too, don’t I?

Lucy thinks that she owns the house and that she is pack marm… and the Mum and the Dad say that she is too, but sometimes I just think I should be and I let Lucy know it. But the Mum and the Dad say I have to take a time out in a crate when I do that. So I don’t do it very often, only when I forget and I’m really tired. But still, I like my new bed that the Mum bought me and I want it to be all mine!

The Mum doesn’t give us nearly enough chewies at home… well, not nearly enough bully sticks chewies anyway. She says they are expensive to get for all seven of us. So we only get them once in a while but I really like the a lot!

Maybe we will get more now that a local store, Ma and Paws Bakery, sells them and they are thick and yummy from there! Maybe I can go trick or treating for bully sticks at Halloween… I should make up some Halloween invitations so people know I’m coming! Oh wait maybe that’s not how it works…

The Mum brought a pool home yesterday too, she needs to take some pictures of me in it… though I don’t get in it very much!

This is my big sister Lucy and she eats in this chair that my Dad built for her. My Dad used a box cutter and some old wood we’ve had for a long time (the wood is older than me!) and he put some pads and things on it so that it would be comfortable for her.

My sister Lucy has something called megaesophagus and I don’t know what that is really but it means she has to eat in this chair and she gets to eat four times a day! I only get to eat two times a day so that’s not really fair.  And Lucy gets to eat food that goes grrr grrr in this weird machine first and it gets all soft and watery.

I try to eat some of it when the Mum or the Dad pours it in Lucy’s bowl. But they don’t let me lick very much. But it’s super yummy! I think it’s better than my food but the Mum tells me it’s the same food just with water and blended. But I think she’s lying so that I won’t try to eat it. But I do try anyway!

So Lucy is okay to have around but sometimes she thinks she is alpha and I want to be alpha and we have some issues but I think I will win someday!