Tatum Tot Spice

Archive for January, 2008

GADS the Mum hasn’t let me on the computer forEVER! I mean it. She’s been doing computer things and says no time, Tatum, no time! And for us chatty collies we need computer time! Bah!

So she got a new camera, she thinks it’s pretty fancy and wanted me to put up these pictures of me that she took in the back yard. Chase likes to play with me in the snow, though still he doesn’t chase me ’round and ’round like I like. But he’s the best playmate I got so I live with it. Oh, except the Mum. She’s great to play with. I get to nip her in the but, and she squeals and it’s so fun!

But the Mum says that when I first came she wanted me to start playing with her a lot, and now that I know I’m safe here that I have to learn some playing rules and we get to play when the Mum wants. What about what I want? Bah. I’ll just nip her in the but to play anyway.

So the Mum has told me that she has changed the domain something name of my cool blog. It was www.TatumTail.com but she didn’t want to wait for that name to move to the new host… not sure how you can move a name, can’t you just rename something? Whatever.

So she changed the name of my this cool blog to http://www.tatumtot.com/. You can still reach it from http://www.tatumtail.com/ if you want to. And once the domain is old enough (how can a name be old?) she says 60 days old, then she’ll move it too but since my blog is new then it is going to take a while and man this is a long sentence. BREATHE.

I talk fast!

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!