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The Mum took me and Chase on another trip for Chase to do flyball. It was fun… and really hot. The Mum said it got up to 103 degrees outside. We were inside so we were okay, but the Mum got nervous a bit and was pouring water on both me and Chase and YUCK that part sucked! But then it did feel kinda good because I perked up my tail after I got wet and the breeze in my wet coat wasn’t so bad.

I also got a couple of massages from a really nice lady. And whenever the Mum and I walked by her place I ran over and stood on her mat. Because mats are cool and her’s was comfy and she was a really nice lady. I liked her massages though I didn’t want to really let her know too much because I’m juts that way.

This picture is of me sleeping in the hotel room. The hotel room was nice and cool and comfy. We went to St. George Utah and Chase got another flyball title, called his Top Flight Executive. The Mum says I can do flyball one day when I learn not to run around and play with the other dogs and don’t have the zoomies so much… but what fun is that?

The Mum took me and Chase to Colorado just a couple of weeks ago… it was fun, but scary… but fun too! I got to meet Kiwi and Cor and play with them… ’round and ’round we chased each other they are super nice. They are both Australian Shepherds and very friendly and fun! The Mum didn’t get any pictures of them, though. She shoulda!

We got to walk around a nature park and see lots of ground hogs as they were warning each other about us scary dogs.. and Chase got to swim in the water. I didn’t want to swim, so I played with Kiwi, but then I got kinda nervous and really wanted to find my crate. And so I left.. and the Mum came with me but I didn’t really want to go to her… I like her, but sometimes I get in a mode where I just want to hide and I don’t want to be around any humans at all. So I went looking for my crate, and the Mum said I went right through the agility ring! But Ringo was running, a springer friend of mine, so that was okay. And then I followed the Mum to my crate and I felt lots better.

The Mum says I still get stressed and I kinda shut down… and that’s when I want to make Lucy and Angel know I’m boss, too. I guess I take it out on them, but the Mum says she’s gonna teach me how to deal with my stress in other ways. And hopefully it’ll go away completely someday!

Yeah.. so the Mum went into a store without me and bought this bed and it’s just too small. But it’s comfy and I wish I fit in it better. I like the raised sides and sometimes let my head flop over because it’s very comfortable.

The Mum took me and Chase to a place called Colorado last weekend. It took a really long time to get there, and a really long time to get home, so I was kinda stressed. Plus, I got to play with Kiwi and Cor, my Aussie friends from there! They were so much fun! I wish the Mum would have taken a picture of me playing with them… we ran around and around and around and around and around… until I get tired and stressed and wandered through an agility course looking for my crate.

I wouldn’t go to the Mum.. I got kinda in my old fearful mode that someone would catch me and hurt me.. so I trotted around, but I followed her to the crate area then slipped inside, I was happy to be back in my crate, in this tiny bed!

I’m back! Back from the flyball seminar that the Mum took me and Chase too. It was fun. Well, at first I was pretty nervous. The drive there was super long but went by pretty fast. And then when we got there we had to stay in a whole brand new house that was very different than our regular house!

But there were seven other dogs there, including Chase. There was a puppy named Bandit who I really played with a lot. And then there was a Jack Russel named Chase Me who wanted to make Collie-Jacks but I don’t know what the Mum was talking about!

Then after we spent the night in that house, in our own bedroom, we went to this pretty scary place. I have never been there before so I was nervous. But I got on my mat and did the stuff I already knew like sit and down and shake and eat Livers so that wasn’t too bad. But then I really wanted to go back into my crate because it was safe.

The Mum said I had to come out once in a while to meet people and dogs and practice our tricks, so I did. It was okay but I didn’t want to do much. The next day was a little better, I wasn’t quite so scared. But the last place we went to was different again, and I’m not really used to different places too well.

But by Monday morning at the new house I was relaxed and playing with the other dogs and then I started to bite the humans on the butt, too, and make them squeal. LOL that’s my favorite thing to do!

The Mum says I get to go with the end of March, too, to a flyball tournament with Chase and Muffit. And stay in a hotel. But I’m a pro at it now!

Well, the Mum says that she is packing up me and Chase and we are going to go to a Flyball Seminar this weekend.

The Mum says it’s a really long drive, about 7 hours. And I don’t know how I’m gonna play with Chase in the car because the car is really small, but the Mum says I can get out sometimes and take breaks and stuff. She says that we will mostly sleep the whole way there.

I am nervous ’cause I haven’t slept away from my new home since I got here in September of last year. But the Mum says we will have fun because we get to stay in a Townhouse with the other flyball team people and dogs, and it won’t be as scary as a hotel with the people walking around. Because I really must bark at people when they walk around. And Friday I get a seminar day all to myself but it will be a strange place. I’m so glad Chase and the other dogs will be with!

Wish me luck, we leave tomorrow!

Went to puppy class yesterday! That was fun. There were a lot of dogs there. My buddy Rift was there and I wanted to play with him. And my friend Anya was there, the little tiny rotty girl. And there was a big fuzzy black Bernese Mountain dog who was cute and I wanted to play with her. The only little puppy was Anya, but still it was fun. And I got to meet Luna, she is a really pretty border collie girl. The humans were talking about poor Luna. There is probably something wrong with her tummy. Usually the humans give us yummy treats to let us know we did something good. Well, Luna has a hurt tummy, and treats make her sick, and so she has been avoiding things that she gets treats for! Isn’t that awful! It’d be no fun at all if treats made you sick!

So luna gets to go to the doggie doctor to find out what is wrong with her poor tummy. She was so wiggly and fun, I wanted us all to play! The the Mum and the Teacher Lady wouldn’t let us. Booo!

And now the Mum says maybe I can’t go to the semeenars for flyball with Chase, cause another fllyball dog on the team, Chase Me, might go instead. Hrmph. Oh well, we will see if I can go or not. If not, I get to stay home and play with Lucy, Levi and Angel. Yay for Play!