Tatum Tot Spice CGC

So the Mum has been trying to teach me something with the clicker and the tennis ball but I’m not quite figuring out what she is trying to teach me to do yet. Sometimes I just want to put my Bluetooth headset on and ignore her, but when she gets the treats out then it’s oh so hard to ignore her!

This picture is of me biting the Mum’s shirt but I don’t think that is what she wants me to do!  I open my mouth by the tennis ball and I get a click and a treat but then sometimes the Mum doesn’t give me a click until she pushes the tennis ball right into my mouth! But I don’t get it quite yet. I know I will, as long as the Mum keeps teaching me, but sometimes it’s hard to have anything at all in my mouth when the next thing to go in is a yummy dog log treat! Dog log is my favorite treat too. Sometimes the Mum gives me other stuff but I just like dog log!

Oh I like tuna too.  I like to steal big chunks of tuna off her salad when she’s not lookin’! LOL!

I'm Tired Today!

ooo the Mum is a silly Mum. Today the Mum took me to a place called a Dog Training Place called Willow in the Creek. I didn’t see any willows or any creeks but I did see some other dogs and I got to go through a tunnel!

Me and the Mum are having a bit of a disagreement lately. The Mum thinks that I should do things that she wants me to do, when she wants me to do them. Well, I’d rather do what I want to do, when I want to do them!  So today we argued a little bit and.. well, I didn’t really win but I did get to hide in the tunnel and not come out!

There is this grassy place with a fence around and fun agility stuff inside. And the Mum wants me to go over a jump and then get a treat. That’s okay but I’d rather do it how I want to do it. And I’d rather run around and around the place first before I come and get the treat. And the Mum says well… she sometimes takes me by the collar because I’m being a bit stubborn!  And so she brings me to the jump, then I have to touch her hand with my paw, then I get a click and a treat, then I do the jump! Then I get a treat on a plate, then I do another jump and get another treat but I have to sit for it too.

The Mum is making me work so very hard!  I have to do the paw touch and the sit and all that stuff just to get a treat. Hrmph! Well I guess that’s okay ’cause I do love the Mum and it’s fun to go and do stuff, but I do really think I should be boss of it all and not her! But she disagrees. Doesn’t everydog know that smooth sable collie girls are princess and going to be Queens and should get what we want? If I don’t get what I want, I might have to look for motorcycle accident attorneys and slap a lawsuit on the Mum!

So then when the Mum told me to go through the tunnel, after a paw touch and a click, then I ran in as fast as I could and then just stopped and looked out and I laughed and laughed at the Mum and my Aunt Edie!  Bahaaaa!!  I didn’t have to come out!

It made the Mum laugh too and she was rolling on the ground looking at me peeking out of the tunnel.  He he I’m such a smart sneaky collie girl. Then they took the tunnel away, which wasn’t nice of them, so then we tried the teeter totter and I had to do the paw touch first, then I got to go on it and it’s fun too! I think I’m gonna like agilities, as soon as I get the Mum and Aunt Edie trained up so I can do it the way I want to! 

So the Mum got us a yummy stuff thing that she has been put into our food the last couple of days. The Mum says she doesn’t like it, it’s really gross and it stinks. But I think it smells super good and tastes even better!

Though the Mum says cookie recipes are better than tripe, I have to disagree. She got it from a place called GreenTripe.com and it came super solid frozen. So she had to let it be unfrozen in the fridge just a little bit before she chopped it up and then gave us some!

I want more and more of it but she only gives us a little bit because she says we aren’t used to it. It’s green and smelly and she says it’s super good for us with lots of vitamins and gooey good stuff. Yum!

Above too is a picture of our six food bowls, but that was from before Lucy had to eat liquid yummy food. She used to eat out of a bowl like us, but can’t now that she’s kinda sick. But she still tries to push me around!

What do you eat? For breakfast I eat a crunchy breakfast and it’s yummy 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 hope everyone has a very Merry Collie Christmas! Even if you are not a collie, even if you are not a dog. Even if you don’t live on the Earth! Maybe you swim in the water or maybe you live up in the starry sky in the night, or on the big round white thing the Mum calls the moon.

I am having fun chewing bones and playing with new toys today, I hope all of you are doing the same!

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!