Tatum Tot Spice

The Mum is so dorky! First she says to me she says “Tatum, you are gonna come with Chase and me to the flyball Semeenars and we will have fun!” Then she said… “Tatum, I don’t think you can go, because we won’t have room in the car.”

And then today she says “Tatum, guess what! You do get to go, and you get your own Semeenar too!”

What is up with this? Well, I hope I can go. She sent money in the mail today, and as long as they get it in time, I get to have a Semeenar all for my own. Just for one day, it’s the day before Chase’s semeenar. And the Mum says it’s for Puppies and Green dogs. Well, I’m not green, I’m sable, but I’m not a puppy either. But the Mum says I really am Green, ’cause Green means new, and I still think I’m not Green but What Ever!

So we get to go a day early and I get to go to the Green Dog semeenar, and I get to learn how to run with other dogs and chase them… err… I mean not chase them (we’ll see about that!). And go over jumps and do something with a box and maybe there will be a cone, too, with liver on it!

Should be fun!

Okay so the Mum set up this orange cone thingy in the basement today. She was reading these white papers I really wanted to eat earlier today, but she wouldn’t let me she said they were important for flyball. I’ve been to watch Chase do flyball and it looks fun but I want to play with the other dogs instead of go over jumps. But it’d be fun to chase the other dogs down the line of jumps!

Anyway so the Mum put the cone and I wanted to sniff it so I did and whaaa! I made a click! Then I got a piece of liver. So I stared that the Mum’s hands and then she put them behind her. I hate it when she does that. I don’t like looking at her face or eyes much yet so I look at her hands instead. They hold the treats anyway. But then she put a piece of liver on the cone and when I went to eat it I made the click again! And then she put the liver on the cone for a while and so I kept making a click when I ate it. Was fun! And then she’d put the cone waaaaay over on the other side of the room and I wanted to go check it out to see if it had liver on it and guess what? It did!

Some of the time the cone didn’t have any liver on it but I went to see anyway, and when I touched it with my nose I made the click happen and then went back to the Mum for the liver. Yummy! The Mum says that this is gonna help my flyball as well as my obedience go outs. And even my distance work for agility. I dunno about any of that yet I just like to go and get liver from the cone, and make the click happen.

Then the Mum wanted to play and chase me around the house but I just wanted liver and I was kinda tired. The Mum said I’m supposed to get really excited and run to the cone and then run back really fast. But she was using liver, not toys, and I don’t get fast about liver. So she says soon we’ll have to stop doing the liver and just use the toy to get me super excited. After we did the cone stuff and some weird stuff with cheese on a stick I only played with Chase and the Mum outside in the yard for a few minutes. Now I’m sleeping on the couch next to the Mum. We gots to chew yummy bones again this morning and oh I should put up a picture of me chewing that the Mum took! I’ll go do that too.

So the Mum is cutting up these super yummy treats today in the kitchen and she says they are for our going out to practice agility and obedience and stuff today at the cold barn. And for tomorrow, too, when I get to go to puppy class and see Bindy and Feisty and the other fun puppies. But when she’s cutting them all up me and the rest of the pack stand at the counter by her legs and want her to give us some.

And I just really think that I should get them all, and all the other dogs need to go away. So I tell them that! I growl at them and bark and even bite at them. But not hard ’cause I’m a nice collie and I don’t ever hurt anyone. But really don’t they know that I am their pack leader? Lucy doesn’t think so, she thinks she is, and we have to work this out between us ’cause I think I am even though Lucy has been here longer. I’m cuter anyway, and spunkier, than her.

So Hrmph. I think I should get all the treats so I tell the other dogs so, and the Mum she is so mean!!! She takes me by the collar and marches me into the bathroom and I have to stay for three minutes all by myself!! She is cutting up really good stuff like Lamb Liver and Lamb Heart, too. I love that stuff! I want it all!

The other dogs don’t like it when I growl and bite at them but I don’t care! The Mum let me out of the bathroom again.. and I tried to not growl I really did, but it’s so hard… so I growled again and the Mum marched me back into the bathroom!

I hate it in there I don’t get any liver or any hearts. The Mum let me out again and I tried really really hard again, I stayed in the back of the pack for a while but I got brave again and moved in… and for the third time got marched into the bathroom. HRMPH!

When she let me out the last time all the yummy treats were gone. She says if I learn to be nice and stand there with the other dogs, then I’ll get to eat the treats too, but.. it’s just so hard!

I so hope we have puppy class tonight! It may snow, and if it does snow, then some people may not want to come. Why would they not want to come when it snows? I love the snows! And I love puppy class, so I think we should all go!

The Mum says hoomans don’t like to drive in the snow sometimes. Well, I don’t mind riding in the snow. Fine by me. And I want to see the puppies!

The Mum has been trying to teach me to sit on my mat for a long time. Like more than 3 seconds! It’s hard! I just want to get up and check things out. But she holds a treat in front of me and says Wait and so I wait for the treat but still. This is a hard game. I like moving games!

GEEZ sometimes the Mum wants to take my picture at the must stupidest times. Here I am sleeping peacefully and what does she do, click click that camera with the bright icky flash! Mum, stop it!

Oh well, I’m sleepy today because of our big day yesterday. The Mum worked with Chase mostly, my border collie brother. But she got me out a bit. She put a coat on me when it was so cold I was shivering, then I was better. I had a soft comfy pad in my crate though and that was nice.

People are kinda cool, they have yummy treats a lot. I showed them how I can sit, and lay down, and run to a funny white plate with a treat on it. And the Mum says she wants me to look her in the eye, but she’s gonna have to work for that one!

The last couple of days have been pretty uneventful. The Mum and I haven’t gone out at all. The Mum says sometimes she needs to relax, and she says I need to relax too but I am not so sure about that. I have gotten a lot of sleeping in the last couple of days. The Mum says see, I am tired, but I wouldn’t ever admit to that!

So today the Mum is taking me with when Levi and Chase do some agility practice, then obedience practice (though they will be in the same place) then over to her Mum’s and Dad’s house but we might have to wait in the stupid car. I dunno why they don’t want doggies running all over their house!

Then after that we will come home and me and my brothers and sisters will get to sleep the rest of the day while the Mum and the Dad go to some sort of party for Christmas they say.

Anyway, I’ll blog later about how it all went!

This is me eating my yummer dinner… oh wait, actually, it’s me licking out Tony’s bowl, his is green and mine is yellow. Because he leaves lots behind and I can finish it up (if Lucy or Levi doesn’t get to it first!).

Yesterday I was really tired all day long. I didn’t want to play much and just slept most of the day. It’s because Tuesday night when the Mum took me to that lesson with the really nice lady who gives me treats, she made me work hard! They want me to learn how to sit closer to the Mum (this kinda bugs me because I’m not used to hoomans that much). They want me to gather up my back feet in when I sit, so I kinda sit forward. And then when I stand up, they want me to push my back feet behind me. They calls it a ‘kick back stand’ and I guess if I get in the practice of doing it now it’ll become so natural that I’ll do it when we go do obedience whatever that is.

Then last night The Mum made me do it all over again! Except last night there were really fun puppies there, too. There was a little brown and black puppy that someone said a dumb person thought was a Labrador Doberman mix.. but she’s really a Rottweiler and she’s so cute I loved to play with her! Then there was a bigger fuzzy puppy who everyone was giggling at her butt when she walked. He he. She’s called a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy and I wanted to play with her too!

But anyway I thought hard about the up sitz and the kick back standz and I think I got it pretty good, in just a day, and I got lots of treat and they told me I’m so smart (which I already knew, thank you very much) because I was getting it so good already.

The people get amazed at how quick I learn but duh, I’m a collie you know, and they don’t have to teach me things too much more than a couple of times before I know what they mean! And the people aren’t so bad. They are actually kinda fun to get treats from and play with. Though I still look away from the Mum when she tries to give me those silly monkey hugs. What does she think I am, a monkey! Duh, I’m a collie!

(The Mum just told me not to call anyone dumb. They are just uneducated on doggies. Whatever!)

Me and my brother Chase waiting in our pen at Obedience Practice.
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