Where I sleep while mom sews!

This is me doing one of the things I do best!  Sleeping!  I like sleeping on my mom's sewing table and especially sleeping behind her machine when she sews!  The hum of the machine is so relaxing!
 Mom puts one of my beds up on her sewing table for me to look out the window and lie in but this place is way better! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Mom said today is my birthday!  I'm one year old today!  Dad said he can't believe I was a little 4 lb puppy at one time!  But I was!  and I was kinda cute, wasn't I!

Mom said she doesn't have anything special planned today and we already took our walk early this morning so guess it's just another day...but I am getting lots of hugs and kisses!  Just because I'm so cute!

I'm a Rally Girl!

Yep!  Mom says I'm a RALLY GAL!  We had so much fun at class this week!  I was a real good girl and watched mom almost the entire time!  This is mom and me doing recalls!  The first recall I have to run back to mom and then do a finish which is just a fancy word to get back beside my mom!  But that's ok...they can call it whatever they want!  I'm smart and know what to do!

This next video I have to sit and wait for my mom to walk back to me.  They try to trick you so that you don't always expect you're going to be called to run back to them.  Actually, most of us dogs would prefer to just sit and let our mom and dads do the walking!  But that's ok...I just let mom think I'm so smart and wait for her.

This is the course mom and I went through outside...BUT we forgot to ask someone to take a video of us.  This little dog is the only one my same size in our class!  All the other dogs are big like German Shepard, Dobs and the like!  They are really big dogs!!  This little dog is so good and does everything "off leash", which means he's not hooked at the neck like most of us!  He just comes to class with his mom to have the distractions of the other dogs.   His mom and my mom let us sniff noses...he's just like me as far as lovin' people, kids and other dogs...so we have lots in common.

I love our class and look forward to our next one!  Mom said they are closed next week so we have to wait two weeks....but mom is going to buy a tunnel for me to run through!  Yea!!!

I'm a Rally dog!

We had our 2nd Rally class last week and it's lots of fun.  Actually, it's getting to be more fun as mom is finally catching on as to what she needs to do to teach me! 
Rally class is a combination of obedience  and some agility.  Right now we are learning to do things like "halt", "90 degree turns", "left turns"....but heck, I'll do anything for food so once mom has her footwork down pat, I think we'll do good as a team!!  I'm really good at my sit/stay/come while on the leash so that makes mom happy!  No, it doesn't take much to make her happy...now dad is another story!  But mom won't let me post about that! 

Mom said she's going to take some video's next week at class at some of the dogs who are really good at Rally work. 

NO!  This isn't me...but it's what mom hopes will be me in about a year or so! 

This is my favorite position but I'll be a good sport for my mom...plus, I'll do it for the food thing I mentioned!  Well, I do expend a lot of energy between my walks and lessons!  Just wait until I start jumping of hurdles!  Hope mom gives me steak then!

She's at it again!

Yep...my mom is at it again!  She signed me up for a Rally Class starting next week!  What the heck is a Rally Class???  From what mom told me, I'll get to run and jump and meet new friends.  Oh, yea...I have to behave to commands too.  I do really well "on leash" as mom likes to say and "off leash" I do my sit/stay/wait/find/down commands really good too.  I just don't always want to "come" to mom or dad when they call me ("off leash")...I just wonder if mom knows what she's in for at this Rally Class!  Oh well...I think it will be fun for me!!  I love meeting new people and other dogs so I'm pretty excited about the class after all! 

This is what mom said I should be able to do at some point in my life!!  I don't know who this Bichon puppy is...mom found it for me on this blog.  It does look like fun doesn't it!!  At least mom will get some exercise...I wonder if she has to jump the jumps too?  I hope so!

I do ring the bell!

 

Mom says no one believe that I ring the bell to go potty...so she did a video..it's a short one because if she or dad don't come to the door really quick I get mad and hit the bell with my paw and my head!  

I've been busy..

 So mom said I haven't been very good about writing in my blog.  But golly!  She keeps me so busy it's hard to find time to get on the computer!  This is me just hanging around waiting for what we're going to do next!  sometimes, mom just doesn't want to do anything but sew...well, I try not to let her get so bored that she has to sew, SO, I'll get her chasing me or playing with me.  I like to call it playing with me but mom and dad don't always see it that way!

Last weekend mom took me down to see Amber and Nick and we actually stayed overnight for two nights!  This is me in my safety belt waiting in the car to head out. 
I like going to see Amber and Nick.  They take me for walks, play with me and I get to play with Alley and A.J. their cats!  Alley like to play more than A.J. does so we two girls hang out a lot!

This is a picture of Alley and me resting!  We ran around ALOT! so we were both pretty tired.  She's a nice cat and sometimes she just lays on her back and puts her paws up for me to sniff and just play.  She's a cool cat to hang out with. 

I sure was tired when we got home last Monday.  So mom sat at her sewing machine and I just slept under her foot next to the gas pedal on her machine. 

 And this was me later at night! 

I'm all rested now so I'm ready to go again!!  Now to get mom and dad ready to play!  I have to keep them moving or they get all stiff in the joints.  It's a good thing they have me or they would be what mom calls "couch potatoes"!