So here is a fun picture of me chewing a pig ear! I love pig ears. I like to roll on them too!
Hey so we went to flyball practice yesterday and it was fun. The Mum said that I’m doing so good over the jumps! I kinda know how to hop over the prop and back and the Mum has a flyball box again so she is going to show me how to do that part and so I can do the whole thing! Though I am not too good at catching balls… I guess I’ll have to practice that a little bit. I’m much better at being cute and eating pig ears!
We got to play again in the area that has PVC fence around it so we didn’t run out and get lost. And that was fun. I ran and ran and ran and bunny hopped too, and then got home and had a good nap because it made me tired!
The Mum says once the sun is up more at night than in the morning (I don’t know what that means, isn’t the sun always up the same time?) that we can go practice agility every week. Yay!
So the Mum came home today and then Aunt Christy came over and she brought Charlie with! Charlie is a border collie girl who has been at the shelter for three months. That’s a long time! A really nice lady at the shelter liked Charlie and wanted to save her, so, she contacted Utah Collie Rescue. And even though UCR usually only does collies like me, we are gonna have Charlie stay with us a couple of days until she can go to another foster home with Border Collie Rescue.
The Mum didn’t get very good pictures of her but she wants to post more over on her blog Tip Tail, anyway. But this is Charlie. And she’s black and white and a little bit fat! She didn’t want to eat dinner, but us dogs don’t like to eat much when we come to a new home, so that’s okay. She can eat later. She has enough fat to last her a while anyway! LOL She’s not skinny like me!
So when Charlie came to explore the back yard, I used all my good play moves on her but she didn’t play with me. Hrmph! Well, she better.
But I’m boss of her, and just a couple of minutes ago I let her know… I growled at her then I bit at her and made her run away! The Mum said I was a bad girl and wasn’t supposed to do that to foster dogs. Charlie just was a wimp and ran from me. She didn’t even fight back! Which is good because I’m boss girl here (we won’t talk about Lucy) and I get to tell all the other dogs what to do!
But I’ll try to be nice to her. The Mum says she hasn’t had a home like I have for the last year and a half. But I was also worried that Charlie would eat some of the Tuna the Mum had. I really like Tuna and I want it all for me! I even got a big chunk of it out of the Mum’s salad before she knew it! He he. I like to do that.
I know I put up more pictures of me than of Charlie but hey, I’m cuter anyways. He he. I’m a collie girl!
This has been a busy weekend for the Mum so she hasn’t turned the laptop on for me so I can post. And I went with today to the agility trial and the Mum had me do some mat stuff that was fun. And guess who we saw?
This is Sonny isn’t he almost as pretty as me? He’s a smooth sable collie just like me and he’s a boy and he’s fun to hang out with!
And at home my cousin Layla came to visit and we played! That was way fun too, she is a very tiny puppy but I didn’t bounce on her too much, and Muffit didn’t either!
Then after we played we had a good nap on the dog shelf, even though the Mum didn’t get a good in focus picture! Oh well, she’s the Mum so what can I say. Anyway, I’m going to nap now I’m tired too!
So the Mum got this new weird thing from a place called Running is Cleaning or something and she wants me and Muffit to do something with it (not at the same time) but I’m not sure exactly what she wants me to do.
Lick It?
So I figured out that it has yummy stuff that comes out if I lick it but the Mum kept wiggling it and so I tried to bite at it but she wiggled it some more! Eventually the Mum was wiggling it so much that I got a grip of it with my back teeth and I squeezed… and guess what?! Lots of yummy stuff came out! But then I thought Cool so I licked it some more!
Bite it?
So I grabbed it with my front teeth too but that didn’t do much good to get the treats out, so I kinda figured out that if I scruntch it with my back teeth like I’m some big tough moving trucks then I can get more stuff out!
But I still thought it was more efficient to lick the yummy stuff off once I squished some out!
So Like I said I still don’t know quite what the Mum wants me to do with this but if I squish it with my back teeth then lick it that seems to work pretty good! I hope the Mum gets this yummy thing out again so we can play with it some more! I like eating treats out of stuff!
Then the Mum had me go over and back over the jump thingy too that is supposed to be for flyball and that was fun, then I rubbed my head in her and played with Muffit some now it’s time for a nap!
I Like To Read
Yup, I like to read. The Mum left out this cool flier for me the other day and I made sure that I gave it a good read. Though the Mum says that she can’t read stuff very well after I read it. I read about Movado watches and sales of dog treats and even things the Mum might be interested in.
Reading is really fun, do you like to read?
Oh and hey, with Sasha gone and my other friend boy gone (who I’m not supposed to talk about for a while, it’s a secret!) our house is kinda boring now. But I played with Muffit and Chase a little bit today. And now we are all sleeping and taking it easy. The Mum says she’ll try to remember to bring the camera to flyball practice tomorrow so I can show you all how good I’m doing!
I did have fun at training yesterday and I got to learn this thing called a Broad Jump and I wanted to walk on it instead of jump over it but it sounded scary and so I jumped and the Mum gave me a treat for it. Yum! The Mum says I can do three jumps in a row now and that is really good! Soon I’ll be able to do a hundred!
Chase Plays Clue
So I was looking through the Mum’s old pictures of when before I lived with them and we like to go camping… and there was this funny picture of Chase playing a game called Clue when they went camping before me. And so I just had to post it because isn’t it funny? I don’t know if Chase won, my Dad won or my Aunt Mary Lee won, but the Mum said she didn’t win she never wins when she plays Clue.
This is in our super fun trailer we have when we go camping. And there is a heater so that we don’t get cold… when the Dad doesn’t forget to put Proppaine in it that is! And the next time when we go camping I’m going to have the Mum and Dad pull out the Clue Game and I’m gonna play, and I’ll bet I’ll win! And if I don’t win I’ll chew up all the pieces and then I’ll win anyway! And maybe to remember I’ll need some laptop memory for the Mum’s laptop then I can play on it too!
My sister Lucy is in the background there sleeping. She’s really good at sleeping, and at pushing me around but I’d rather push her around!
Me Jumping!
So we went to do flyball practice today! It was fun. This picture is from last summer when I did lots of jumps under the Plum trees and I was the best one there… of course. But this time we were inside this new building and I had to sniff around a bit. And then when the Mum sends me over the jumps to my Aunt Laurie, well I kinda sometimes don’t want to go to her and I’d rather run off and sniff stuff. So Aunt Laurie had this idea that they could put my mat down at that other end and I could land on it!
And so maybe we’ll do a new thing called mat flyball! I can go over the jumps and slide onto my mat, and then turn around and go back to the Mum for a treat! Hrm.. I think it’s a great idea and I should invent the sport. Maybe call it something really neat like Tatum’s Mat Flyball or something. But balls might not be involved so maybe it’ll be Tatum’s Mat Flying… oo that sounds neat! He he I gotta rename the title of this post to that funner name!
Well last night I had a super fun time! The Mum took me to a New Year Pawty.. though it wasn’t on New Years Eve or New Years Day, it still was in this New Year of 2009 so it was fun!
Watching Footsball
For a little while I sat with the Hoomans and watched the TV. There was a Footsball game on, the University of Utah won the game! but I didn’t watch too long because I kinda thought it was boring. And I didn’t have any Swiss Army watches to play with either… so I played with Sadie!
Playing with Sadie
Sadie was super fun to play with! She was a rescue dog like me and she got this super great home with the Mum’s lady she works with, and her guy too! And Sadie is fun, she stayed with us a while ago and we got to play at my house, and now we got to play at her new house! They have a super huge back yard and we ran and ran and ran in the snow until we were wet and tired!
Playing with Sadie
And the Hoomans watched us play too and they thought we were really fun to watch. Oh and I only chased one of the kitties once. And the Mum said I wasn’t supposed to chase the kitties, but I did it anyway it’s too hard not to when they run!
Then after the play and the Footsball Sadie and me got to chew pig ears!
Sadie Chewing
And I chewed too, but I kinda had more fun rolling on the pig ear than chewing it!
Tatum Rubbing
And we had lots of fun at the Pawty! The Mum was very happy that I got to come, and so was Sadie! And then on the way home in the car I slept the whole way because I was really super tired. I hope to go play with Sadie again soon!
Dog Park
Hi Everydoggie! We had a fun day today. First we went to the Tanner Dog Park and we had lots of fun in the snow!
Dog Park
It was just me and Muffit today, and we got to run and run and play with other dogs and it was really cool fun. The Mum wanted me to post up these pictures so you can see how pretty it was at the park. But I would have posted more me pictures!
Dog Park
The paths are fun and there is lots of snow on the trees. It snowed all yesterday and we got lots of really fun snow, I like the snow! So instead of New York Yankees tickets we had a great day at the park.
Lily and Pack
Then we went for a really looooong drive and guess what guess what? We got another foster sister! The Mum is calling her Lily and she is a rough sable collie and she was was found on Friday night by a nice guy who took her in and kept her warm. Because it’s way too super cold outside. She has no microchip and she had no tags on, so we’ll see if we can find her home. But if not, she’s our foster sister for a bit! The Mum posted about her too on Tip Tail about Lily!
So check it out we got a fun new Holidays Present! It’s a new dog bed! Ooo I really like it. When the Mum put it down, I had to jump all over it!
Tatum's New Bed
The Mum says I have to share it with the rests of the pack but Hrmm I dunno about that. I like having it all for myself!
Chewing the Bed
See I can even chew on the corner! The Mum said “no Tatum don’t chew on the corner!” but I like chewing on the corner! I didn’t chew much, though. Just a little bit, and didn’t even get any stuffing out!
Tatum's New Bed
But I could get stuffing out if I wanted to!
I like my new bed. I might share.. if I’m in a sharing mood. Which I usually am not!
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Hi I'm Tatum and welcome to my blog! I'm a smooth sable collie, the prettiest kind! The Mum said a blog would be a fun thing for me to do, I can tell everyone how I'm gonna learn some things called agility, and obedience, and flyball.. and go on walks and play in the park and bark at the TV and lots of fun stuff!
