Tatum Tot Spice

So the Mum says it’s a new year now, but I think it’s just still winter. Though there hasn’t been any snow at all. I like the snow, it’s fun to run around in. But it’s all dry and brown here and the Mum says it’s not any fun to have everything dry and brown.

The Mum says I should look into Housekeeper Jobs because then I could make some money for fun stuff to do, but I like just laying at home and being a lazy girl and bossing the boys around. It’s fun to boss the boys around!

The Mum has been doing Cyber Rally with Jet, Chase and Levi. Here is a video of Levi doing it, and he got a Q too. The Mum took me out and I thought I needed to do something with all the thingies on the ground. Because that’s what we always do with agility and stuff. The Mum tried to get me to stay with her with treats but I’d run off and touch things to make sure that’s what she wanted! She says we have some work still before we do mucy Cyber Rally.

Here is one of my Rally Videos for all of you doggers that are dying to see it.

Aren’t I good? I think I look good. The Mum says I should stay with her more but I don’t understand why since there’s no treats involved when we go in there. I stay by with treats! I did all my sits and downs though which are sometimes kinda hard. And the Mum forgets that she can show me with her hand what she wants. Because I get nervous sometimes and have a hard time hearing what she is saying.

Maybe the Mum will use some cleanse smart for her brain so that she will remember how to tell me to do stuff!

But anyway I had fun and I sure look good don’t I?

I did the weird Rally stuff again and the Mum was happy about it! So that’s good. I will try to post up my video in a little bit. A few days. The Mum hasn’t been letting me do video for a while and that’s mean but I hope to get it going soon.

But anyway I don’t understand why the Mum wants me to lay down for so long so I stood up at the end of the second rally thing and the Mum said that meant I couldn’t get a Q for that one. But laying down is kinda dumb so I stood up! The first one I did get a Q and I got a score of 175 and the Mum says that’s really good! I got to eat lots of treats at the end, and when we left it was snowing. I like the snow, I don’t have to wear women’s rain boots in the snow but I get to run around and play with Jet, and that’s what I did when I got home at the end of that day!

So the Mum says that I’m going to get to go do that Rally-O thing again. Called Rally Obedience. But this one isn’t AKC like I did before. It’s the ASCA one that I did months ago and did well in. Though I didn’t understand about the long laying down part. And I still don’t really understand and the Mum hasn’t really told me about it either!

Oh well, it should be fun. Levi gets to come too, but the Mum says he can only do it if it’s a long down, not a long sit. Because his hips hurt him when he sits a lot. Maybe he needs some multiple vitamins to help him be stronger. The Mum says she is going to teach Levi how to do K9 Nose Work. Which means lots of sniffing to find food. I hope she’ll teach me too, I love to sniff for food!

The Rally-O-Thing is this Saturday. The Mum says if I Qualify both times on Saturday, I’ll get another title. I wonder if it’ll taste better than this last one?

Okay so here is the paper that came the other day that the Mum is really super excited about. It is my new Title that I got when I was up in Idaho Falls. It’s my very first Title and the Mum is so proud!

My Title Certificate

I think it’s just a weird piece of paper and so I was trying to read it. But the Mum said if I read it then no one else will be able to read it after because I kinda read it so that it gets made into lots of little papers too.

Tatum Tot Spice RN

The Mum says if I swallow it after I read it then it might get stuck in my tummy and that’s not good. So she said I don’t want to eat paper, nor do I want to eat ephedrine diet pills because neither of them are good for dogs.

Smooth Collie Rally

So anyway this is me reading my way fun new title!  I’m proud of myself too, that I got a title.  I’m a Rally Novice Collie now!

The Mum says even though I have my Rally Novice title now with AKC that she still wants to teach me lots of fun stuff. So I think that’s great! Here is my second Rally Novice leg up in Idaho Falls last weekend. I had so much fun! The Mum was a dork and didn’t change the batteries in the camera for the last leg and it was my best one yet! She says she’s going to teach me that heeling thing that I haven’t quite figured out yet so we can do off leash stuff too.

Maybe if I get real good I can earn money at this and then the Dad won’t have to do construction employment anymore. But the Mum says there’s no money to be made, only money to be spent. So that’s a bummer! Money lets us do fun stuff and eat yummy treats and things. Though when the Mum shows me what money is, I think it’s dumb because it just smells weird.

So remember how I said I was going to go to Idaho Falls and win lots of ribbons and Qs? Well, I did it! The Mum was so happy with me. I can post some of the videos of me up too they are really good. I won lots of ribbons see!

I qualified all three days I was entered in that Rally Trial. There were no other collies there.  No rough collies and no smooth collies. I was the only collie doing AKC rally last weekend.  And on the first day I got a 91 out of 100. The second day I got an 89 out of 100, and the last day I got a 95 out of 100!  I did so well!  I was kinda nervous some of the time but by the last day I was relaxing and even watched the Mum a little bit.  Though she didn’t give me any treats in the ring but that’s okay, I got lots outside of the ring.

So this is me with all my ribbons. The Mum said she’s very proud of me and she wants to get more ribbons for me too in the future.  I can do it! I am learning lots and having a really fun time doing the Rally!

Okay so guess what? The Mum is taking me to a place called Idaho Falls! I haven’t been on a road trip for a while so I hope I’m not too nervous about it. But the Mum says I’ll be fine because I’ve had like a whole week of resting. She didn’t try to teach me anything for the last three days (isn’t that a whole week?) so she says I’ll be all rested up and ready to go!

I am going with the Mum, Chase, Jet, Aunt Marie, and my sheltie cousins Twist and Dare. Me and Dare get to be in Rally again! It’s AKC rally this time but the Mum says I won’t hardly even know a difference. I just have to do what she says and stay with her and I’ll be fine. She says maybe I’ll even get a title called an RN! Maybe I’ll be a Registered Nurse! Or she really says it’s called Rally Novice so that’d be even more fun!

The Mum is gonna bring her computer so I can blog about it after I do it. I do it Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I need Qs every day to get the RN title. And the Mum says she might even get laptop insurance so that her laptop won’t break while we are up there!

So anyway wish me luck and that I’m not too nervous!

So the Mum says I need to post one more time about the cool Q that we got in Rally-O. So here is a fun picture of the Mum and me after the trial. And I know that I’m the prettiest and there should have been an award for prettiest but there wasn’t.

Here you can see me with the Ribbon that I won. Mum likes ribbons, but I don’t care much for ribbons. I just like the cookies that I get after I get the Q. And you can see the froggie toy I won for Jet, too. The Mum is really proud of the ribbon and of me and keeps talking about how good I did.

She said I get to go to a place called Idaho Falls later this month to do more Rally-Obedience. This will be an AKC Rally and it should be just similar and the Mum thinks that maybe I can get a title. Then I’d be Tatum Tot Spice CGC RN. RN stands for Rally Novice. The trial is three days long and if we get Qs all three days then I’d have that RN title too. The Mum is excited! I’m just nervous and I hope for lots of cookies! And maybe no dereon because I don’t think I can eat those. I like to eat yummy things, like Tuna Brownies!

Okay so the Mum took me to do that Rally thing today! And it was kinda fun, but I was a little bit nervous. Here is the video of me doing it. The Mum said I did really super well and she was so happy! I like it when the Mum is happy.

I just kinda had to follow her around and do sits and stands and stays and stuff like that. After we did all these weird things then she told me to lay down for a really long time. And I didn’t want to stay all the way laying down so I got up. And the Mum said that wasn’t so good, so I didn’t get a Q whatever that is. I just know I got treats after. The Mum said that she made sardine brownies for me for tomorrow, I love those! They are good and tasty and smelly too!

So we are going to do it again tomorrow and the Mum hopes we get a Q thing tomorrow, and a ribbon and a toy. And then she said she will take me to Idaho to do some AKC Rally in August. I like to go on trips so that should be fun too. She better bring lots of Sardines and Tunas!

So this is one smooth collie girl that has done Rally now and it’s kinda fun!