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This picture is not of a scary place…. this picture is of the fun hiking place we went to up in the mountains which I really liked and had a good time doing. But on Sunday the Mum took me to a kinda scary place. Even though my friend Daniel was there, he’s a Cattledog and he’s really nice and I love to play with him, but the inside of the building was weird and sounded funny and I didn’t like it very much. I didn’t even really want the tuna brownies the Mum gave me. But I did some lay on my mat and some go over the jump and some walk around and it wasn’t too bad. And I did some lay in the crate and that was good too!

So I was thinking that it’s always good to have something that makes sure the car works okay because if the car breaks down and it’s too hot outside, and you are stuck in a scary place, then it’s too hard to get home! So there are places like Chicago auto repair that can make sure your car works really well. Though the Mum wouldn’t ever leave me anywhere. She makes sure we are all safe and that is really the best, she’s a good Mum even though she pushes me sometimes and I get a bit scared. Though we don’t have a Toyota Corolla, the car we do have is really safe and the air conditioner works really well. You don’t want the water pump going out on a hot day because that would be really dangerous.

Us dogs, and people too, can get over-hot and then we can get sick and maybe even die and that’s not a good thing! We want to live long fun healthy lives and so the Mum and the Dad take good care of us and take us home where there is a nice Swamp Cooler to keep us cool. So I got to go home after on Sunday and relax and boss everyone around again and that was great!

The Mum says that today is a day called Christmas and so I am hoping everypup has a happy Howlidays and Christmas day time! The Mum took me and my brother Chase jogging today and it was fun! I get kinda tired and cranky after jogging but I like to nap in my crate and that’s a good thing too. The Mum says sometimes she needs knee pain treatment after she goes running because he knee can hurt. But she runs on it the smart way (whatever that is) and then she’s mostly okay.

The Mum put me and Chase’s bright fun vests on in case that it got dark and there were cars around and they need to see us and stay away from us! Especially my brother Chase since he is so black he’s super hard to see in the dark!

Well I’m going to do my nap thing now and so have a Happy Holiday!

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!

The Mum says that we go through our dog beds too fast, and she has to spend too much money buying dog beds. So she had an idea that we can make our own! So she went to the store and she bought some materials… and so we made a dog bed!

First what you do is when the Mum lays the material on the ground, you have to break it in. And me and Muffit did that by playing on it. Then I did the same by laying on it.

And then you play on it some more and you help the Mum as she cuts it up into a dog bed sized chunk.

And then sometimes it’s okay to let your big sister Lucy lay on the material just to make sure it is okay for her, too.

Then next you have to have the ends sewed together. And the Dad said he doesn’t sew, and we can’t put up pictures of him sewing, so this is a mystery man sewing the ends of the material together for the dog bed.

Then next you stuff the bed (later to be destuffed, I’m sure) with stuffing that we pulled out of a couch cushion that we are also using as a bed! So here is all of us helping the Mum stuff the new bed. The Dad took these pictures.

Then you get another mystery Dad person to sew the very last bit of the bed together… and at the end, you get to lay on it!

And it’s super comfy! And the Mum says it can go in the washering machine, too!

That’s how you make a dog bed!

I like being a smooth collie. And sometimes I like to lie in the sun and yawn. The Mum was doing some weird stuff on Sunday and she picked up all our dog beds and put them outside in the sun. And so I went and laid outside in the sun on the beds! And I had a big yawn and the Mum caught this picture right in the middle of my big yawn!

Then my brother Levi, in front of me, and my sister Lucy, in back of me, decided they would come and lay in the sun too. Lucy got another of the dog beds, but Levi laid on the stones of the patio. And the Mum, inside, was making loud noises she called vacuuming, and soft noises she called dusting, and scratchy noises she called mopping.

So us collies stayed outside on the beds and let her do all the work! But we didn’t even get any bones, because the Mum says Lucy isn’t feeling well and she has to eat her food like every half hour through the day. Man… I want some of that food too, but the Mum doesn’t let any of us have any except Lucy. But Lucy seems to be feeling better ’cause she still won’t let me be boss girl. But I do so want to be boss girl sometimes! I like being boss! But the Mum the Dad and Lucy are all bosses so far. Oh well. I’ll get them to let me be boss someday!