Tatum Tot Spice

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!

Sometimes the Mum worries about me a little bit because sometimes I get really tired. But she doesn’t know what it’s like to be a collie girl and get super tired! I play and play all day with Jet and Titus and then I need a big deep sleep! Or sometimes when the Mum takes me to agility training and I have to think really hard and run around a lot, I get tired there too! I think the Mum should give me some Black and Mild cigars after but she won’t, she says they are not good for collies.

So okay whatever then I sleep on the dog bed on the dog shelf and the Mum put a pillow under my head for me isn’t she nice? Yeah the Mum is pretty nice and I like to hang out with her, and then get a nice deep sleep!

So finally the Mum got me a bed that I can fit in! Look at me now! It’s still a little teeny bit small up here on the dog shelf in my new bed, but I do like to curl up in it and so it’s not too small really.

So now instead of me trying to squeeze into a bed that’s too small, like putting on breeches that are just too small, I get to curl up in this comfy bed.

The Mum said it didn’t even cost $40 which was good, because she says she doesn’t have $40 for a bed for me. But I think that’s a small price to pay for a bed for me, since I deserve a special comfy bed for myself!

First you have to have to HAVE TO go check out my other post (if you missed it, and even if you didn’t) about my comfy bed nest that I’m making. See, if you go read the old post then you’ll see how much bigger I’ve gotten my nest lately!

So the other day I caught Angel in my nest! Hrmph! This is Angel… if you didn’t know. And the Mum took a picture of her in my nest for you all to see. I let her lay in it for a little while, but she got up pretty soon! So check out my way fun nest now! It’s lots bigger. I fit right in it. Angel’s but kinda falls in. Mine does too but I like it!

Maybe I’ll get some custom rubber stamps and I can stamp cool stuff on my nest too! I wonder if the Mum and the Dad would care. They pretty much let me do anything I want except chew up shoes and steal food off their plates. (Okay there are other rules too but I won’t talk about them!)

So this is my fun nest and I sleep in it every night. It’s my smooth collie nest and it’s comfy. Proof because even Angel likes to sleep in it.  Sometimes Chase does too.

The Mum says she’s going to take this couch to the dump and I say noooo! It’s my nest!

So we have a couch upstairs and it’s kinda raggedy and the Mum wants to throw it all away! When I came it didn’t have so many chews on it… but me and Bianca, my old smooth collie foster sister, we used to play tug with it and stuff and so now it’s kinda a bit more chewed than it was.

Me on My Couch Spot

So well I thought the couch would be much more comfy if it had a little nest in the middle of it and so this is what I did. And yeap, above is me laying in my nest spot.

My Couch Spot

Isn’t it comfy! It’s just perfect sized for me! Well and since I made it of course it would be!

Hey everydog and kitty and fuzzy and non-fuzzy. Yappy Howildays to you all, too. The Mum and me haven’t been much on the computer the last few days because she’s been so busy!  But now we get a break and breaks are good, though hopefully the Mum will take me to the park this weekend!

Woof!

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!

It’s been raining all day today, and it rained most of yesterday, and it’s gonna rain again tomorrow. At least so the weather-guesser says. And so does the Mum. When it rains even if the Mum goes outside and calls us we say No Way and all stand in the doorway in the same spot.

Before I came to live here when I lived in Houston, I thought the rain was okay.. and when I came to live here in my bestest foreverhome I’d go outside and play and run in the rain.. but Lucy, Levi, Angel and Chase would look at me funny so one day I asked them, why do you look at me funny when I’m out in the rain?

They all said well, don’t you know that collies and border collies melt in the rain?

I said WHAT?!  I didn’t know! I never have felt melty before but I didnt’ want to risk it anymore and so now I stay indoors whenever it’s raining outside.  And then when Muffit came to live with us I asked him one day, ’cause he came from someplace else, if collies and border collies melt in the rain, and he said yep, we do!

Glitter and Chip may not melt in the rain… they are shelties and they run right out and potty even when it’s raining hard.  And I haven’t seen any sign of them melting at all. So I guess it’s just collies and border collies that melt in the rain and shelties don’t.

The Mum says that Glitter and Chip are just more polite to go out in the rain and potty and that their Mum is better at teaching them potty than she is… but I dunny. Maybe some of my sheltie blogging friends will come and tell me, do shelties melt in the rain?

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!

Sometimes the Mum, the Dad, and the brother Chase just wear me out! And I like to sleep upside down, it’s comfy. That there goes the Mum again, with the camera of me sleeping. Geesh!

Look at my feet all tucked under… Wordless Wednesday