Tatum Tot Spice

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!