Category: seven’s story
i’m still here

i’m still here

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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

new friends, digging and lots more

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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

bells, poop and cars

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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

chuck update

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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

ears and a new friend

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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

teething

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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

selfie

selfie

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whew today was exhausting!

i woke up mum early even though she did have to do that work thing and we stayed up. no going back to bed for a nap. in fact i did not get a nap all day. well apart from when i fell asleep in mum’s arms and a tiny one when she got me some more food.

we did our normal walk down the laneway and then it was nonstop. in the car we go and first we went to see my friends who have this big space with lots of cars but machines that make noises that scare me a little. but mum brought my favourite toy, the squeaky one. that made me feel better and was doing the border collie stance and it made me feel a lot safer. i started to fall asleep but we were off again. this time to visit my friend who came with my mum to bring me to my now forever home and who comes to see me when mum can’t get home. by this time i was really tired and that’s when i fell asleep in mum’s lap. she left me there while she went for more food. it was great, i had a nice little nap. there are more cats in this house and most of them apparently came to check out who i was but i had no idea, it was nap time!

finally, we pull up in front of our house and by this time, i was hungry and really tired but i had to tell my cats my story but they did not want to know.  oh, and i really like pushing this chair around.  it is on wheels and i push it all round my house. sometimes nosey is on it and stays for the ride. we are becoming good friends, she even lets me sit on her.

the day is not over and mum says i am wound up like a spinning top. not sure what that is. here’s my selfie. humans are strange! i maye a smart border collie but cannot yet take my own pictures, so mum took this one when i was trying to to play.

my selfie

poop time

poop time

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i am told that being a border collie, i am one of the smartest, if not the smartest dogs on this planet, that’s a lot to live up to. and there are lots of rules i have to learn. it will take a little more time, but i will, i promise mum.

i have it figured out that after i play, eat and sleep, i have to have poop time. i guess the same would happen with humans and cats. this is where humans and cats confuse me. mum praises me everytime when we are outside and i do the poop thing but is not so happy when i do it inside. so why do they not have to go outside and do poop time? it’s only me that has to go outside. i know where the cats go poop, they have their special box that mum makes sure i do not sniff. and mum has this seat with water in it which i cannot get at, mum says its called a toilet which is a strange word. i am confused but i am sure i will conquer this strange concept. it’s called puppy training mum says.

meanwhile the most fun i am having right now is my basketball and ofcourse giving mum lots of kisses

please again!

sally

sally

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mum had to do that work thing again, so into the crate i went but a short time after a human friend came to let me out so i could do pee time and then we played and i thanked him by giving him lots of kisses. but i did have to go back into by crate until mum came home and then it would be play time again! 

i hear mum’s car and start to get excited because i know she will be coming through that door any moment which she does.  i am now out of my crate giving her hugs and kisses and then over to the door for pee time. when the door opened and i stepped outside. there was another dog. a big white and black one. i know i am a big brave border collie but i was kind of scared and pee’d on the step.  mum says her name is sally and she sometimes comes to stay with us when her human mum has to go away. we immediately went for a walk down the laneway and i did not go far from mum’s side. well that lasted about 5 minutes and now i follow sally everywhere, hope she doesn’t mind. we even slept together on mum’s big bed, how cool is that?
today will be lots of fun with my new friend sally, maybe she will teach me a few things while she is here. well that’s what mum says! mum also said that there are many more friends that i will meet, i can’t wait!  
i forgot to tell you i now weigh 20 pounds. i am growing really fast and yes i poop a lot!
my new friend sally
the vet

the vet

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yesterday was different. this really nice lady came to visit us and apparently she is my doctor and she is called a vet. what’s really nice is she kept giving me little treats.  what’s not so nice is she poked me with something really sharp.  mum told me i have to have these shots every once and awhile so i won’t get sick. i’m not really sure what that means but it doesn’t sound too good, so i will let them poke me, just a little though!  she gave mum all this stuff to read about bringing up a puppy but i know my mum has done this before, so i am not worried, i know she is doing things the right way, least that’s what i think!

my puppy training is continuing.  i had a big poop in the house this morning, sorry mum but i’m blaming it on those shots, they did funny things to my tummy and i just couldn’t hold it.  i tried to wake you but you wouldn’t listen. i will though try to remember to ring the bell instead of just staring at the door.  see mum bought these bells that she put on the door for me to ring when i need to pee or poop but i keep forgetting. so much to learn but i am because i am a border collie and we learn things really quickly but we do have a stubborn side to us as well.

i have discovered these two very big balls outside. mum calls them basket balls but to me they are just great big toys to play with.  i have decided that they must always be togther but it can be a little difficult, i’m working on that one.

my big toys, the basketballs

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