Tatum Tot Spice CGC

So the Mum said that I had to take this test last weekend and that it would mean that I was a Canine Good Citizen. I already know that I’m a good citizen but I guess they wanted this test so that they could prove it to the world and get this funny peice of paper to hang on the wall. So now I can be called Tatum Tot Spice CGC. That is kinda neat those letters after my name!

This is me doing some of it. I was kinda nervous up on the top of the arena place, I like it downstairs better, so we did some downstairs too and the Mum didn’t get video of us downstairs.

I’m smart though and I passed really well! We didn’t send out any communion invitations to my test but that’s okay because I was a bit nervous anyway and didn’t want anyone else to watch!

So the Mum has this weird plastic thing and I’m not sure what she wants me to do with it but she puts squeezie cheezie on it and it taste’s good! So I lick it off and that’s pretty easy. But then the Mum tries to slip it into my mouth and I’m not so sure about that. Though the squeezie cheezie goes in my mouth too and I do like that part!

The Mum is trying to teach me lots of things and it is really fun. Though sometimes I am not so sure about doing what she wants. though it never hurts, it’s just weird!  Why would I want to pick up this dumbbell and put it in my mouth? The Mum does give me a click and a treat for it, though. She says that I’ll understand soon, becuase I’m a smart girl.  And when she puts the dumbbell thing in between her knees like this, and then I get to lick the chees off, that’s super yummy!

It’s kinda like following the stick around with tuna brownies on it.  I like all the good treat parts of these games! I hope I don’t get fat and need to eat some diet pills too!

Ooo man, so the Mum made these super yummy new treats that I love a ton! The Mum calls them Tuna Brownies and they are great. And so we went to do some training on Saturday and I got to follow the tuna brownie around on a stick. The Mum says Trott! when we start out and so I look at the tuna brownie and walk by the Mum’s side and we go around in a short circle or a short straight line.

The Mum says that this will be a fun thing to do for obedience. But after I eat the tuna brownie then I have to touch the stick with my nose too. The Mum says that if I don’t, I might just only follow the stick when there is a tna brownie on it, and not the stick without a tuna brownie on it. Well, like duh, why would I want to follow a boring stick without a tuna brownie on it? That’d be like taking a stupid diet pill and I don’t want that, I want to just eat tuna brownies!

So the Mum says we are going to practice that more and more and I say fine, but I want more tuna brownies!

Oh and this is a picture of me when we were up in Idaho last summer, isn’t it pretty?

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!

This pictures is of me and Chase but the Mum doesn’t have one of me and Levi so I am putting this one up instead.

Last night I went to our obedience class. I go at 6:30 and then Levi’s class is at 7:30. I think both classes should be all about me but the Mum says Levi has to learn to carry his dumbbell around and so he needs some time too. Bah, whatever. I should just always get to do stuff!

So we got our mats out.. me and three Bernese Mountain Dogs. They are cute and I really want to go play with them but no one will let me. Sometimes I try to wander off all coy like but someone always catches me dangit! So I lay on the mat because I make the click happen and get treats for that. Though the Mum says I’m so good at it that she has to make it harder! Ugh! But I’m smart and I can lay on that mat for a long time now to get treats!

The Mum then walked around with a treat by her left side (my right side) and I walked with her and kinda trotted to hurry up. I liked this because I like to eat at the treat. Though she says that I have to wait and only if I wait will I get the treat. Instead of me grabbing at the treat like how I want to do. But this is fun and I keep my tail up because it’s a good time.

Then we sat for a while just not doing anything and that’s hard because I always want to be looking around and sniffing stuff. The Mum calls this a Stay and I need to learn how to not move and just sit. I can do it a while but if she forgets to give me a treat then I will stand up and wander off to see what other interesting things there are to do. But usually the Mum keeps the treats coming and so it’s worth it to stay where I am!

Then the Mum runs off and says this stuff that is ‘Tatum Come!’ but that’s when I get really distracted. I’d rather go play with those fuzzy Mountain Dogs instead of follow the Mum. And when she moves it’s really kinda weird makes me nervous. I like it better when she puts her hand out and I get to touch it with my nose and make the click and get a treat. So we do that and maybe if she does that for a while I’ll get used to her moving like hoomans do and then I’ll go to her better. But going to hoomans is not something I ever really liked to do and it’s gonna take me a while to get used to it!

The Mum says, though, that in a couple years she thinks no one is going to be able to tell I came from a bad place with bad hoomans. That I’ll just go around biting people in the but and playing and eating treats and being super confident. Well, I know I will! And I’m beautiful anyway so what else matters?

Well, the Mum says that we are going to start doing lots of fun things that I get to learn. I went with Levi and Chase to agility last weekend again, and so many of the people had steak this time! I liked it better than Livers even, I think. I like that place better, where all the people have raw steak. Yum.

The Mum and the instructor lady says it’s time to start teaching me serious things. Like how to jump over jumps (though I already did that duh) and walk on boards and things. I’m sure I already know how to do it all, I just need to let the Mum and the training lady know it. And if I don’t know some things, well I’m sure I’ll pick them up pretty quickly.

And I like to learn, too. It’s fun. The Mum is always giving out good treats when I make the click happen. Though sometimes she does hold my collar and my feet and I really do hate that. The Mum says I am brave enough now to take some pressure… so she is holding my collar more now and my feet more now. Hrmph. Well, I can take it… most of the time. But sometimes I don’t like it and I really wish she would stop!

But I’m a collie girl, and I really do want to learn agility and obedience and meet some sheeps! So this weekend the Mum says we are gonna start! Oh, and flyball too, ’cause that looks like fun! Especially when I get to run around the park in wide loops! Oh but the Mum says that’s not really part of the flyball. LOL. I have fun anyway!

So Yesterday the Mum puts all the other dogs in the kitchen and gets out the phone book and yay! I put my feet on it. The Mum likes that and clicks and gives me a treat when I do. Then she started to move around me and I’m not sure what she is doing.. she said something about ‘rear end awareness’ but I don’t know what that means yet so I just try to move around a bit and get that click and treat.

She also brought out this funny long thing with a yellow ball on the end. And every time I sniffed it she clicked and treated. So that was easy! I touched the ball with my nose and got the click treat!

Then the Mum brought out this weird long thing with high sides and I just kept walking around it. When I did put my foot over it I got the click and treat! So I kept doing that… the Mum said it was a jump and I will get to do it much higher in the future, when we can go and train outside.

Then I got to go in the Kitchen and the Mum got out Muffit. Gah… only I should work with the clicker! But the Mum said that Muffit has to learn this stuff too for flyball.

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.