Tatum Tot Spice CGC

So the Mum has this new training plan for me and Jet and I’m kinda confused but I get to figure it all out because she tells me what she wants me to do with the clicker and then I get to eat treats if I get it right. But sometimes I want to hide like in this picture because sometimes the Mum is confusing and I’m not sure what she wants!

It’s kinda like entertainment centers when we have fun and it’s really entertaining, but sometimes it’s just hard. So the Mum sometimes wants me to put just my bum on the ground, and other times she wants me to put my whole body on the ground. And she says stuff but you know, it’s kinda hard to listen to her when there are lots of treats somewhere behind her! So sometimes I just do the same thing I did the last time but then I don’t get the treat and I forget to listen!

So I gotta try to remember to listen but I really just want to eat those yummy treats!

So here I am doing agility! Aren’t I the best ever! I think so! The Mum thinks I’m a little bit slow and I need more speed and forward focus. And I get a little distracted and I kinda like to wander off and go around jumps instead of over them. But the Mum is learning how to do agility my way!

Aren’t I awful good! the Mum says I’m sometimes just the awful part but she’s just silly because I’m such a great smooth collie agility working girl! What do you all think? Maybe I’ll just stick the Mum in a shipping box and send her off somewhere so I can do agility all by myself. Heck I am so good I hardly need her to tell me where to go!

Here is a picture of me getting a really good look at Jet’s teeth. Aren’t they shiny and white? We like to play and Jet puts out his teeth and I just laugh at him because he looks funny! He does it to the Mum too and she laughs at him too because he is a silly puppy of just eight months old.

So anyway last time we did agility fun things was last Friday and guess what? The Mum put up lots of jumps in a row in lots of turns and corners and things and I did them all! And she also put in the Teeter Totter which is really fun and I push it down and it goes BANG and I don’t care or get scared.

This Friday my Aunt Marie is going to come play agility stuff with us and bring her little shelties with and I get to show them all how good I’m doing. I’ll get it on the video machine too so I can post it all up and show you guys how much fun and how good I am at doing agility!

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 last Friday and last Sunday the Mum took me to do some agility training. This picture is of me on the way fun A-Frame thingy that I get to climb up and over and then lay down on the bottom side for a cookie treat yummy thing. I do it really well and don’t I look cute up there? The Mum thought it would scare me but nope! I like the A-Frame!

So anyway we did some agility training and we did the jumps, I think I said this a little bit before.  And on Friday I did some of the jumps but thought I’d go around some because that’s easier even if I don’t get treats for it.  But then Sunday we went to the place that usually  makes me really nervous, but it was fun this time! I got to follow a Springer named Ringo around a bit and sniff stuff. Then I did some agility with the Mum and guess what? I did five jumps in a row! The Mum was so proud of me and it was kinda fun really.  So maybe I’ll do more jumps too, jumping over them instead of going around.

The Mum only is having me jump 16″ instead of 20″ like they rules say I should. But she’ll put me in preferred because I am a preferred collie and the best so I get a special jump height!

So the Mum was proud that I did five whole jumps in a row and maybe next time she’ll have me jump more than five and maybe I’ll do all them too!

OOo whoo hoo look at me go! It was so much fun to chase the sheep! The Mum called it herding. I kinda thought I wanted to play with the fuzzy white silly sheep but they didn’t want to play back. And then when the Mum would reach for me I was afraid that she was gonna tell me I was bad and punish me for herding them around, but she didn’t and she gave me a tuna brownie instead!

Muffit and Jet went herding too and she’s gonna post about those on her own blog Tip Tail. But I did the very best of course! And we got to drink yummy water from the refrigerator water filters that the Mum brought with. It made us super thirsty!

I was so good at herding that it only took a couple of minutes I hope you like the video!

So here is me doing what the Mum calls Weave Polls for agility. I don’t really get it yet but I think I’m figuring it out.  This is a three and a half minute video of the Mum and Aunt Edie trying to let me figure them out by myself. At first I really don’t know what I’m supposed to do to get to the Mum and the yummy treats she has but then I start to understand!

So see how smart I am and how I figure it out? With all this weaving in and out of the polls I’ll get some big weight loss I think! The Mum says she’s gonna do this every day with me now so I can learn how to do them. And wiggle and move weird through them. And then she’ll move the guide thingies away as I understand better what I’m doing.

So it’s kinda fun and I think it’s weird too but I’m gonna figure it out!

So I had fun with the Mum yesterday we did some agility lessons. It was fun! I went over three jumps all in a row. Then the Mum had this square thing set up with jumps and she would move in front of me so that I’d go to a different jump other than the one in front of me, and she called it a Front Cross. I kinda got it but then I thought why go over the jump when I can just go get the cookie on the white plate? Well the Mum wouldn’t let me so I had to go over the jumps, but they are fun too!

So I got to eat cookies and go up on the fun A-Frame thingy too. And I’m learning what the Mum wants me to do in those weird Weave Poll things but they are confusing. Maybe I just need to break some air intakes into my lungs and take it easy and relax and eat cookies!

The Mum says I can go practice agility tomorrow morning too so that’ll be fun!