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Being Soft Sucks! December 29, 2007

Okay… the Mum made me, and all the other dogs here, all other five of them, get in the tub today. It was awful! I got all wet! She made me all wet! I hated it. I even squealed a little bit. I wouldn’t let her take any pictures of me when I was wet.

She says I’m all soft and I smell good now. But I don’t want to be soft and I don’t want to smell good. Not if it means getting all wet, then all sudsy, then all wet again. The Mum said I’m easy because my coat is short and not so thick, and I dry quickly. Well, I still hated it!

But I suffered through then I got a bully stick and that was yummy.

Dog Park is Fun! December 26, 2007

I’ve only been to the dog park twice. This was my second time. The Mum took me and Tony and Angel a few weeks ago but I was a bit nervous then. This time, I wasn’t nervous at all!

Today she took me, Levi, Chase and Tony. The Dad took Lucy and Levi for a walk around the house ’cause they don’t like to run run run like we do! I got to meet a ton of new dogs and we even saw Kibu from flyball! I wanted to go with all the other dogs too, and I kinda lost track of the Mum and Levi and Tony. Usually Chase would come to get me though, but then he’d just play with me and the other dogs and the Mum would have to come get us both!

Boy I’m tired now. I ran and ran and leaped and ran and plowed through the snow. Collies love the snow!

Now it’s nap time!

Merry Collie Christmas! December 25, 2007

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!

Worn Out! December 22, 2007

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!

WW - I’m So Cute December 19, 2007

Look at my feet all tucked under… Wordless Wednesday

Puppy Class Tonight.. I hope!

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!

The Mum didn’t have a good day December 17, 2007

Well it started out good. Me and Chase and the Mum went to practice obedience with the nice lady and her Malinois. And Chase got to learn some good stuff and the Mum was really happy. Then at the end I got to eat liver on a stick that kept moving so I followed it. And I even went over some jump thing to the white round thing on the floor with more liver on it. Yummy!

Then we went home and I got to sleep while the Mum went out again. But when she came home she was crying. I’ve never seen her cry before, water coming out of her eyes. Levi tried to lick up the water and I sniffed her but didn’t really know what to do.

She told the Dad that she saw a little doggie get hit by a car and that made her sad. She didn’t tell us more though because she didn’t want us to get sad too. She wrote about it on her blog Tip Tail, but she won’t let us read it because she likes us to be happy.

Now it’s time for bed. I get to go to puppy class Wednesday night, and rest tomorrow. I was super tired yesterday, but today I wasn’t anymore and me and Angel just had a lot of fun rearranging these two liter bottle things that the Mum and the Dad just brought home. We pushed them all over the kitchen floor!

Me and my brother Chase December 16, 2007

Chase is my brother. He’s a border collie. The Mum and Dad say that he was their first ‘foster failure’, and I was their second. I guess sometimes when hoomans help doggies that don’t have anywhere to go, and let us stay with them for a while, they tend to fall in loves with us and we stay forever. And it’s nice when hoomans fall in love with us and let us stay forever, because we like having soft beds and a nice cozy house to live in!

So the Mum and the Dad said they fell in loves with us, even though they already had Lucy, Levi and Angel living with them. But we like living here too. And anyway, who would be able to not fall in love with me and Chase? We are both awesome puppers, collie and border collie. Even though some people say Chase is kinda funny looking as he doesn’t have very much white. I like him being black!

So anyway the Mum says it takes Chase a while to get used to other dogs in our house. At first he didn’t like us collies… well, the ones that came after him. He likes Lucy, Levi and Angel just fine. But me he wasn’t very sure of. So the Mum and the Dad kept him separate from us a lot. He goes over this gate that keeps the kitties in their room. Chase can jump it even! He’s the only one that can. I don’t want to, it’s too tall.

But now Chase is starting to really like me, ’cause I play with him and the other collies don’t play as much. So the Mum got these pictures of me and Chase whispering to each other, and playing with this tennis ball. Doesn’t Chase look mean when he plays? All his teeth show and sometimes the Mum doesn’t know if he’s playing or growling! When he growls no sound comes out so sometimes we don’t know if he’s really grumpy or not.

Playing with Chase is fun! I got tired, though, and left him because yesterday wore me out!

Agility Obedience and Treats, oh My

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!

Going Out! December 15, 2007

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!