i'm still here

wow, mum has been really busy and has not been keeping you up to date. i apologize on her behalf!

i like it lthough cos we are outside digging in the garden a lot. well mum is and i am trying to help. there is this huge pile of dirt that someone brought over and it is so much fun to did dig dig and send the dirt all over the place. mum has taught me a new word. off. because i am such a smart border collie, i learned very quickly to stay off her garden! then she gets this strange machine called a lawn mower which cuts all the grass. humans are very strange. thanks goodness she does not cut the all the grass cos this is where i have pee time and poo time in private!

we took my best cat friend, lucy to this very strange building a couple of weeks ago. mum had to put her in this little crate and she was not happy. poor lucy even pooped in the crate she was so nervous. it was very smelly. we picked her up later that day and she didn't smell of poop but she smelt strange and was acting very sleepy.  mum says that she wnt to her doctor and was fixed so she won't have babies and can now go outside with me.  but she climbs trees and goes up really high. the robins keep dive bombing her. guess they don't like it!

i will try to get mum to keep you updated and promise i will not be gone for such a long time!

lucy and i checking out a bug

new friends, digging and lots more

it's been awhile but as smart as i am, i am unable to master the keyboard to tell you updates, so i have to trust my mum to do this for me. this is what it would be if i was typing. ,lvgfrknjdmkhbv bhn mn  v bfvghjnbgjnbhhbnh as you can see it makes no sense. yes, mum made me do this.

my mum has been doing that work thing a lot but that's ok because then she has more money to buy me things. she takes me to my food store and the other day we brought home a new toy. not that i need it really but i won't say no! this one is called pinky because it is pink and it squeaks. i am very good at bringing the right toy to my mum when she asks, pretty smart just like a border collie should be.

the other day when mum was at work, a friend of my mum's came to let me out. well i would not move from my crate because i did not like him. i don't know why but i just wouldn't move. i think i was a little scared and i nipped him. i am sorry, really i am. but then another friend came to let me go outside for pee time and all was good. i'm glad my mum has lots of friends! and then this really nice lady came the next day with sam her labrador. we went for a really big walk. i showed them where to go, it was so much fun and apparently she will be coming over lots.

i have been for lots of car rides visiting all the people i know trying to be a good boy. but i had a little poop accident in my friend's house. you see they don't have the bell on the door to ring. it's ok though they will have me back, i think! speaking of the bell, i have mastered that one. and i think mum is wishing she never taught me because i go to the door and ring the bell, she lets me out and then of course i want to come right back in again. then i ring it again. it's my little game, wonder how long mum will leave the bell on the door?

and mum has started to dig in the dirt. i really like this but don't understand why she doesn't like it when i start to dig. again, humans are strange but i am getting better at understandiing them. one walk i do like is the one first thing in the morning, it's the best!

early morning run

bells, poop and cars

the bell thing is working but i still forget to ring it sometimes. my mum makes me ring it even though we are at the door all ready to go outside. i don't enderstand why becasue she knows we are going outside. so i humour her and ring the bell. wonder if i will ever understand humans?

today my mum is busy and she left the gate open. well i went to find the cats because they always hide out in the bedroom or on top of my crate. all was good, i was very quiet and i found the cats and wouldn't let them leave the room. and then i pooped and peed in the bedroom. mum was really mad at me i think and i hung my head in shame. i was being so good too about going outside for pee time and poop time. i don't know what came over me. i promise not to do it again, well i will try not to do it again.

mum has this little stool that is on wheels. it's so much fun to pull across the room but it keeps loosing one of it's wheels. what's really fun is running up and jumping on it and then glide across the room. and then there are the car rides. love those because i never know where we might be going. sometimes just the store but sometimes we visit friends. doesn't matter, i like them. and if anyone comes up to the car i am a big brave border collie and protect my mum. she tells me it's ok but i keep my eye on the person who is there and what they are doing, cos my mum is my best friend and i have to be there for her. that's what border collies do.

where we going?

chuck update

remember chuck? i do. he's my brother that stayed with his mum and dad and his human mum and dad. 

well my first human mum sent my human mum an update on chuck. he's getting really big just like me and i bet he's getting into all sorts of mischief just like me. we are both doing the border collie thing of learning really quickly and doing our best to make everyone happy.  chuck lives on a small farm and is out with his mum and dad a lot getting dirty just like we all like to do. i'm kind of jealous, well i know my mum is! but that's ok because i really love my mum. i know i make her laugh and make her really happy. i know she would like to be with me all the time but she has to do that work thing so that is out of the question! one thing that chuck has mastered that i have not is this puppy training. help me out here chuck, how did you pass the test? i heard my first mum's voice the other night and couldn't understand how her voice was on top of the table. it was very confusing, mum says it was a video of me before i moved to my forever home. can't wait to see her again in the summer though, that is going to be so much fun. and chuck you have big feet just like me!

chuck my borther

ears and a new friend

obviously i am growing very very fast. first my new teeth which hurt me a lot and now my ears. one ear is now standing up straight most of the time, so i am definitely not a barbie collie! my mum and her friends think it's really cute. can someone explain to me what cute is?  all that matters is that i like my ears, so does my mum, we don't care what those show dog people think.

my one big ear!

and the other day, i met a friend, her name is daisy. she kind of ignored me but i really liked her. we went on this really long walk and she showed me what to sniff and where to pee and to make sure our human mums were always close by. mum says she will come up again very soon and spend some time with me. wonder what kind of things she will show me then. I can show her these little things that go away really fast in the sky but i think she already knows that, well that's what mum says and apparently they are called birds. 

daisy and sally, new friends

and i finally figured out the bells on the door. dead simple really. i push them with my nose and they make this funny sound and mum comes over to the door, tells me i am a good boy and lets me out. i must remember to do that always when i need pee time or poop time. 

teething

yesterday i was drooling, did not want to eat very much. all i wanted to do was sleep which is not like a growing border collie puppy.  my mum says i am teething.  i think that means that i am growing bigger teeth. i did not like it when she touched one side of my mouth but loved her cuddles. yes i was a mummy's boy yesterday. it felt really good when she gave me some frozen water and a nice cold carrot to chew on. hope this does not last long and my big new teeth come soon.

after a really good night's sleep, drooling on the pillow cuddled with mum on the big bed, i feel much better today. mum has all this wood piled in a corner and one piece came tumbling down to attack me and i am barking furiously at it but it won't go away. things are back to normal!

yummy carrots

i am not a barbie collie

you may wonder what a barbie collie is. i did too.

a barbie collie is a border collie who is a show dog. not a border collie that works, not a border collie that is the best companion ever, not a border collie that competes in herding trials but a show dog. the kind of dog that has to look like what some humans think a border collie should look like. a border collie that is perfectly groomed, stands perfectly, has perfect markings and just stands there looking pretty and then prances around an arena with their owner. all looks and no brains.  i am not a barbie collie. i am a border collie from working stock. i do not have any sheep to herd but i am my mum's best ever companion. and i know she would never ever make me be a barbie collie.

as you can see, i have one ear up and one ear down. that certainly would not be ok for a show dog.  i wonder if i will have matching ears when i grow up.  but who cares? not me or my mum.

i am not a barbie collie