Fizz

Happy birfday to meee!

2010-05-15T14:22:00.001-07:00

It be my birthday tomorrow (16th)! I be one whole year old. I'll do a seperate post all about my actual birfday but for now, here be a cool video that Mum made. :)

Last weekend!

2010-05-02T05:54:00.000-07:00

We're sooo behind on blogging, these piccures be from last weekend! We'll try and catch up this week, but on Wednesday it be Mum's birthday (a BIG special birthday apparently) and then she's going away all weekend, WITHOUT ME!! Can you believe it? She is leaving me all on my own. Well... that be a little bit of a lie really 'cos technically I not be staying on my own, I be going to stay with some cool peoples for a couple of days and Mum says I'll have lots of fun. Whatever, as long as she brings me a present back I not really bothered. Then when she gets back it be less than 2 weeks until MY birthday!

So, last weekend it was really hot and sunny, so Mum decided to take me on a special walk. It tooked a while to get there in the car but it was worth it. It was super exciting, there be sheeps, doggies and lots of little peoples, so obviously I had to stay on my lead but I wasn't really bothered. There was only a couple of times when I got over-excited and Mum had to make me sit and calm down, BOL!

It was quite a hot day so it was a good job there be a big river for me to paddle in and cool down. I wanted to swim properly but Mum kept me on my lead just in case. We sat down under a tree for a little while and watched people crossing the stepping stones. We decided not to go across the stepping stones 'cos Mum wasn't sure if I'd be able to do it.

I was kinda glad when we got back to the car 'cos I was hot and needed a drink. I decided that the water should be squirted on me and not into the water bowl though....

I gots and extra special treat too. I not normally allowed this sort of thing but Mum wanted an ice cream, so Grandmaw went and gotted her one but on the way back she dropped it, BOL! So instead of wasting it, guess who got it...

And finally, some piccures of some baby sheeps that we sawed. Cute or what?

Beach and tricky t-day!

2010-04-21T05:15:00.000-07:00

First of all, proofs that I does swimmings! I mentioned last time that I beed swimming in the river on a hot day, well here is a piccure of me all wet from swimmings.

I looks funny when I'm wet!

Anyway, I'm a bit late updating this but last week we wented to the beach! It beed a nice sunny day but a bit windy so my ears kept doing sillys. I didn't go swimming in the sea though, it be to rough and those waves just keep on chasing me. I chased my ball and stuffs instead though. I founded this star fish too!

Here's me showing Mum the way across the dunes. (The annoying smudge on the photos is probably from me nose-butting the camera lens!)

And here be what I think is a rather lame excuse for a tricky t-day. It be me doing tricks on the beach (well, on the grassy bit next to the beach), I already knew these tricks for a lonnng time but we're working of lots of new ones at the moment so hopefully next time it'll be a bit more interestings.

Also, look what arrived this week! I can just tell I'm going to have lots of fun with these. Doesn't I look happy?

Spring time!

2010-04-09T09:51:00.000-07:00

We has had lovely sunshine here for a few days, and there be lots of pretty flowers appearing in the garden. Mum says this means that summer's on it's way! Mum even got sunburn a little bit yesterday when we went for our walk, BOL! She's very pale and burns realllly easily though, it wasn't THAT hot. I gotted really hot though 'cos of my big furry coat (that I'm currently shedding!) so I just dived in the river and cooled off. Mum wishes she'd had her camera with her so she could of tooked some photos of me swimming in the river.

As for Jas Bunny, well she beed renamed Ruby Rabbit. Mum was cuddling her and she decided the name Jas just didn't suit her! So she be called Ruby Rabbit from now on. She my new best friend, every time I go in the garden she runs down her ramp and into her run to see me. She's getting more confident now and even eats sunflower seeds from Mum's hand now.

Mum says if the weather stays nice we'll be going to the beach next week, wooohoooo! She wanted to take me this week but it be the school holidays which means there will be childrens all over the beach and nowhere for me to run and play, BOL!

Next post WILL be tricky t-day, I PROMISE!!

New addition!

2010-04-06T10:01:00.000-07:00

Mum bought me a new toy! Errr.. I mean, I has a new sister! She be cuddly and cute and has a fuzzy ickle nose but Mum made it very clear she is NOT a toy.

Her name's Jasmine (or Jas for short)...

She's a cheeky furkid! She already pokings her tongue out at me.

I very curious about her. She smells funny and lives in a funny house and eats funny stuffs.

I promise I'll catch up on tricky t-day soon! I beed learning lots of new things but Mum always forgets to set the video camera up when we do trainings.

Crufts & Show thing!

2010-03-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

I tolds you in my last post that Mum had beed to Crufts (without me!!). But I forgives her for not taking me 'cos she camed back with lots of goodies, all for me. Apart from spending lots of money on toys and sweeties for me, she watched lots of agility, obedience and met the Shelties on the Discover Dogs stand. Two of them turned out to be related to me in some random way! Most of the Shelties she saw were teeny tiny compared to me (I'm a biiiiiig Sheltie) but she did meet one called Sonny who was the same size as me. Sonny liked doing obedience and tricks like me!

Here's me with my Crufts goodies. I got some other stuffs too (including the bestest tuggy ball EVER, it be my special agility toy now) but Mum couldn't find everything. You can tell I beed tugging in thiss piccure cos my lips get stucked to me teefs. Hehe!

Mum also got this for free, it be called a frisbee but I likes to call it a FIZZbee.

Today I beed to a country show with Mum and the childrens. There be lots of dogs there, mostly gundogs cos there be lots of demonstrations and things. I beed a very good boy and wasn't even bothered by really loud gunshots. I met three other Shelties and lots of people wanted to do strokings of me. I even met ferrets!! I beed a bit ascared of these furry creatures at first but I decided they ok after lots of sniffings.

I changed a bit since the last time I wented to a show, don't you think?

Hol-ee-day part 2!

2010-03-16T11:33:00.000-07:00

Sorry it tooked so long, we beed super bizzy. Mum beed to Crufts this week, I wasn't allowed to go though! I'll save that for a seperate blog though cos I gots lots of goodies to shows you.

Anyway, back onto my hol-ee-day adventures! The next day Mum wanted to go a very famous and big mountain called Snowdon. It be one of the biggest mountains in Great Britain so I be very excited when Mum said we be going up it! Butttt, it didn't go exactly to plan. Mum's idea was to go up to the summit on the railway and then walk back down, because it be too far for me to walk all the way up AND back down again. But when Mum looked on the tinternet before we left, she realised that doggies not be allowed on the train :-( She beed very upset and so did I. Maybe when I is older I'll be allowed to do the whole proper walk without the train.

I still had my photo taken on this rocky thing though, it just be a little carpark where you can take photos and learn which mountain is which. You can see part of Snowdon in the background, it be the snowy bit! (I had to keep my lead on 'cos it be right next to the road)

So instead we went to a place called Beddgelert. It be a pretty village with a river running through it, oh and there be sheeps too! Luckily there not be too many sheeps around the river.
There be quite a famous myth about Beddgelert which you can read about here.

Here I am posing next to the river! Mum bought me a squeaky ball from a shop in the village so I had fun chasing it in and out of the river. I went in right up to my belly! If it had been any deeper I would of probably had a bit of a swim :-)

When we got back we went down to our beach and I went expolording the rock pools. I found a fishy that had been washed up onto the beach and I wanted to take him home for my dinner but mum said noooo.

The next day we went on the bestest walk ever. We went to a huuuge big waterfall called Aber Falls. Altogether the walk be about 5 miles long, and we saw sheeps and lots of other interesting things along the way. Mum had beed there before when she be very young but she couldn't really remember it.
When we got to the top I has to go on my lead 'cos I wanted to go and paddle in the river below the falls but Mum says the current was too strong.

Obviously I still not be tired after a 5 mile walk so Mum let me go out onto the paddock to play with Sadie and Toby. Mum let me play with my ball for a while too, but then Sadie tooked it off me and burst it! That be my favourite bally so I was very upset with her. Mum says I gots plenty of other toys though so it not really matter.

Mum found a pet shop the next day and bought me a new bally which be identical to my other one that Sadie broked. I be one happy puppy. Yahooooo!

So that be it for my hol-ee-day. Mum wants to buy a house in Wales now, hehehe. I has no problem with that! :-)

North Wales hol-ee-day part 1

2010-03-08T14:11:00.000-08:00

We was only apposed to stay until Thursday, but we all loved it sooo much we stayed until Saturday. I asked Mum if I could live there and she says if she wins the lottery we can. I not know what the lottery is but I hopes we wins it anyway.

First of all I can definitely confirm that there be no whales in Wales. There does be lots of these guys though -

Sheeps! These ones beed living in the field just behind our cottage. Whenever I was near sheeps I just wanted to herd them all up so I had to be kept on my lead sometimes. There still be lots of places that I can go off my lead though. Our cottage had the bestest enclosed garden ever, plus it was in the middle of a huuuuge paddock and of course we had our very own private beach!

As well as sheeps there be some horses. A whole field of them infact. I met horses on my last hol-ee-day so I not beed ascared of them. One day, Mum beed stroking the horses and not really paying attentions to me, so while she wasn't watching I climbed up onto the wall and tried to give the horses fizzy kissies. Mum be too quick though and seed me and told me it was naughty and horses didn't really like kisses.

On Tuesday we wented to another beach. This be Mum's favourite ever beach. It be called Nefyn, and it has houses on it! The people that live there have to drive across the beach to get to there house, weird huh?! When Mum camed to Nefyn 3 years ago, she met a lovely Border Collie who was super-friendly and Mum wanted to take her home. Well, guess what, she was there again! I gots to meet her but she not beed very playful, she just wanted to herd me. Mum says she probably be getting old and not like annoying Fizzy puppies yap yap yapping at her :-) Mum didn't get a piccure of her but of course she made me pose for a photo on her favourite beach. I not mind though, as soon as Mum says 'ok' I runrunrun.

After I had got my zoomies out, we stopped for a picnic. Mum gave me a bit of her sandwich in exchange for posing!

When we gots home our "neighbours" came and said hello. The best thing about it was that they had 2 doggies! They be German Shepherds called Sadie and Toby. Toby wasn't really very playful but Sadie was super fun!

I spent most of my time chasing her up and down the fence and barking (of course!)

Part 2 be coming soon!

Bizzy Fizzy

2010-02-25T10:12:00.001-08:00

Hurrrooo! I sorry that I has not blogged for sooo long, I beed really bizzy going for walks, playing in the garden, squeaking my toys in Mum's face all day long and doing crazycrazy barkings. Mum also beed a bit poordy so she not beed able to help me type the difficults words and stuff (I getting better now though cos I be 9 months old.. That be very growed up).

This might be the last post for a week or so though. Guess what's happening? I going on hol-ee-day agains! This time we be going to a place called Wales. When Mum first told me about Wales I got a bit ascared cos I thought there'd be whales there, but Mum assures me there be no whales in Wales. Confuzzling huh?
Anyway, Mum says the place where we're staying be very dog friendly, it has a private beach, paddocks for me to run around in, and sooo many walks. Oh and sheeps everywhere too. Yay! We not be going until Monday but I telling you now incase I don't gets a chance to blog again before then.

Anyway, onto catchings up! On Sunnyday it snowed again here. Mum got up to give me my breakfast and weewee times at 7am (then we goes back to bed for snuggles hehehe) and there was loaaads of snow. She beed very suprised cos the weatheryman had not forecast it. By the time we got up the 2nd time there be tonnes of it! So Mum said quick lets go out for walkies afore it all goes away.
(Clicky the piccures to biggify them and see them better)

This little bird came and sat on the fence while Mum be taking photos. He was eating some of those seedy things so Mum tooked his photo, she wanted him to come closer but he wouldn't cos I was doing very loud barkings :-) I just be trying to tell Mum that I doesn't like standing still and she should take photos of ME instead of silly birdies.

It a good job we went out early 'cos most of it had melted by the end of the day. We still had time to play ball in the garden quickly though. This be my new favourite game, Mum buyed a proper ball thrower thing so I can chase the ball, bring it back, and then I tug on the ball thrower as a reward for bringing the ball back, BOL! Mum says I gots the wrong end of the stick, but I not know what she means, cos it not look like a stick to me!

I be rather sleepy, but smiley, after all that :-)

Posing!

2010-02-13T10:19:00.000-08:00

We went for another cool walk today. It be along a river with a big house at the end of it, but doggies not be allowed in their because there be lots of old things called antiques. I wonder if Mum be an antique, 'cos she be old compared to me, BOL!

Mum wanted to walk down to the bridge near the house and cross over onto the other side of the river and walk back that way, but there be lots of sheepys there so we had to turn around and walk back the same way. Sometimes when we turn around and walk back in the same direction we came from, I do runnings off! Because I knows that we be going back home, and if I runs off then Mum won't be able to catch me and then I'll just be able to stay out forever. But today, Mum had cheese so I couldn't possibly do runnings off! Cheese is too yummy to run away from, so I kept coming back all the time and being a really good boy. Staying with Mum isn't so bad after all, BOL!

Hopefully next time we go back there won't be any sheepys around and we'll be able to walk on the other side. There were other peoples walking that way but I'd just want to herd all the sheeps up and Mum says that I can get shot for doing that! Uh-oh! We did see some deer again though..

Pee ess... We gots a skateboard! Tricky T-day will be fun this week!

Award and walks!

2010-02-09T10:42:00.000-08:00

We gots our very first ever award! We be very pleased and honoured to receive this award from Essex and Deacon at Key West Collies. Thanks so much Essex and Deacon!

The rules state that I has to state 10 things that make me happy and then pass it onto 10 of my pals. Here be my happy things:

1. FOOD! (Absolutely anything - I not be fussy)
2. Mum.. Because if it wasn't for Mum all my happy things wouldn't happen.
3. Walks... I likes food, so that means I has to have walks or I'd be fat! Haha, not that I mind, I love walks!
4. Toys.. I just can't express how much I loveeeess toys. Especially my tuggy!
5. Cuddles.. Especially with Mum at night times in her big comfy bed!
6. Trainings... Because trainings = food and tuggy.
7. Sniffing! This drives Mum mad but I just can't help it, if her nose was as good as mine she'd be doing it all the time too.
8. Hair brushings... You may be suprised to hear this, cos most doggies hate grooming, but I LOVE it! Especially when Mum does my tummy.
9. Other dogs... Especially ones that want to play chaseychasey with my.
10. Herding... Birds, people, other dogs, and even sheep if Mum would let me.. I just loves herding!!

Ok so now we going to pass it onto 10 friends.
1. Ludo
2. Ricky
3. Reilly
4. Khyra
5. Skye
6. Morgan & Maisie
7. Sheltie Beauties
8. Josh & Jessie
9. Mika & Wall-e
10. Hamish

Now onto today! Today we beed on yet another great walk. Mum was hoping to take me to the beach today but it beed snowing on and off all day so she took me to a place a bit closer to home. We still has to go on the big busy motorway road to get there but it be nearer than the beach. She promised to take me to the beach next week so I not gets upset.

I made lots of friends. I be becoming quite a sociable little fellow these days! The best kind of dogs are ones that do chaseychasey with me, I not like dogs that just want to sniff my face and bum very much, they just boring. This little dude was one of the chaseychasey kind though and we had loadddds of fun. Mum couldn't get a good photo cos we was running too fast hehe :-)

It turned out to be a very nice day with no more snow!

As you can see from the colour of my paws, I had beed for a paddle in the lake :-)

We even saw some of these guys! Mum says they be called Deers. Normally they stay away from peoples and dogs but Mum got a big shock when she turned around and there was one following us!! She had to quickly get me on my lead and go back to the car, cos she thought it might chase us. BOL!! I was not ascared, if it had chased us I would of definitely protected me and Mum. When we was back in the safety of our car (Mum is such a wimp BOL!) Mum managed to get a piccure of 2 of them running past.

Tricky T-day

2010-02-02T04:33:00.000-08:00

Here be our next tricky t-day video, FINALLY!! It not even be proper trickys really, it actually agilities. I posted before we went on hol-ee-day about my new tunnel, now the weather be better we have had chance to do a little bit more outdoor training. As you can see from the video I realllly loves my tunnel!

The second half of the video be of me learning cik & cap. We did a very small amount of training on this when I was younger, not really cik & cap, just going round objects, so Mum be really suprised that I remembered it. So that be our first real cik & cap session. For now I just learning Cik around a toy box, but soon I'll start learning Cap as well, and then we'll start doing it around different objects, and eventually it'll be a real jump wing!

Enjoy!!

Hol-ee-day!

2010-01-31T12:49:00.001-08:00

Hurrooo!

We is back, and I can confirms that hol-ee-days are the best things in the world, ever! I was sad that I had to come home because it was just so fun all the times. We stayed in a cottage in the middle of the countryside and there was walks and beaches everrrrrywhere!

The only little problem we had was that I held my pees and poops for over 24 hours! When I at home I always go in the garden, and I only ever does a weewee on a walk if I super-duper desperate and can't hold it at all anymore, usually I wait till I comes home and then does it there, I never ever done a poops on a walk before. So while we was on holidays I was really confuzzled, the cottage had an enclosed garden but how was I supposed to know that I was allowed too pee and poop there?! Eventually I had a peepee on a walk, but because I had a poorly tummy before we came on hol-ee-day Mum was worried about me holding my poopies for so long. Anyway, eventually on wednesday night I just casnot hold my poopies anymore and wented in the garden. I never seed Mum look so happy, so I figured I did the right thing!! I got the hang of it properly by Thursday. (Mum says that a bit late cos we comed home on friday anyway BOL!!)

There was a big paddock at the back of the cottage, these dudes live there:

I first they ascared me (especially the big guy!) and I barkbarked at them. But Mum explained to me that the little guys be SHETLAND ponies!! They like me! Can you believe it? We comes in pony types as well as dog types. I was brave and sniffsniffed them all and we made friends. By the end of the week I wanted to go and say hi whenever we went out. :-)

On the first day we wented to the beach! Woohoo, my favourite. This was probably the best beach I ever beed to, there were lots of rockpools to explore (the sea still scares me though cos those wavey things always try to chase me!) and lots of intesting things had beed washed up. I enjoyed picking up random shells and getting zoomies cos I be so proud of my 'find'. We walked as far as we could along the beach but the tide was coming in, so we wented up some realllly steep steps and walked along the cliff tops. Mum was ascared I'd be silly and try and climb down to the beach but I was a really good boy, and even posed for a photo.

The next day we didn't even go out in the car! The place where we stayed be perfect for doggies, because it surrounded by walks, and even a canal to walk along. Mum already wants to go back again because there be so much more to explore. We walked to the end of the big driveway and turned right, all of a sudden we be in the woods! I really wish we could live there (so does Mum!). A bit further down the path was a canal, it be really nice to walk down and see all the boats. We didn't walk too fars because it be reallllly windy and the childrens were getting cold. Mum took me to see my Shetland Pony friends again though so I didn't gets bored.

The next day was sooo fun. Mum did a stupids though and forgots her camera!! First we went to a little beach that very popular with dog walkers. I had good funs playing with a Curly Coated Retriever and a Basset Hound, a Labrador and some other little dogs. There was lots of other dogs around but their owners were grumpy bums and didn't let their dogs play with me (even though their dogs wanted to!). I glad my Mum not be like that, she says socialising be very important for dogs, and I agrees. I was a good boy while the grumpy bums walked past though, and sat by Mum's side and waited.

Once I had a good run around on the beach we wented into the town so the childrens could go in the arcades and everyone ate fish and chips. Mum gave me a sneaky few chips though, hehe. Doggies not be allowed in the arcades so Mum took me for a walk along the seafront. It has lots of strange loud noises and next to the road, but I was really good and didn't flinch once. Mum be so proud of me. As we were walking back Mum spotted something on the beach, she started making squeaky excited noises so I knew it be something good. Can you guess what it could be? It not really that exciting to 'normal' peoples, but for me and Mum it be really good! It was a lady with not one, not two, but THREE Shelties!! They all be tiny little Sables, one be the Mummy and the other two were her puppies. I got super excited and thought they were my dog-Mum, BOL! Mum wished she'd got her camera at that point.

The next day we had to go home :-( I really did not wants to and neither did Mum, so we said we'd go out for the day first and then go home. But that did nots go to plan, because just as we were setting off, it started to SNOW! I still wanted to go but Mum be a spoil-sport and said no. Hurrufff! I did my best barkings at her but she would not listen.

Mum says if I a good boy she might take me on another little holiday in a couple of months time. I going to be on my bestest behaviours from now on :-)

(Pee ess - all the photos should biggify... we hope. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't! Weird....)

Hol-ee-day!

2010-01-24T11:26:00.000-08:00

Hurro!

Tomorrow I be going on my hol-ee-days! We be going to a nice cottage near the beach and lots of nice walkies so we be back on friday with lots cool piccures hopefully.

We sorry that tricky t-day be delayed AGAIN! I hads a poorly tummy since thursday (Mum thinks I ate some deer poops on the walk I posted about) so Mum stopped all my treats and I just had small meals of fish and rice, so we not really done any trainings, apart from a few tunnels in the garden cos I has my tuggy as a reward for that. Anyway, hopefully after hol-ee-days we will be back to normal :-)

Woofs!
Fizz x

Walks and agilities

2010-01-19T10:19:00.000-08:00

Hurrrooo!

First of alls, tricky t-day be delayed. Mum lost her clicker on a walk at the weekend and she casnot do proper trainings without a clicker (cos she stupids, hehehe) so we not really done any trainings. She ordered 2 new clickers (one spare incase she does silly losings again!!) and they arrived today so we can start trainings again now! Woohoo.

Yesterday a big box arrived, it looked and smelled very interesting so I has to do investigatings of it. Hmmm.. what could be inside?

I was right! It be something super exciting and fun. Can you guess what it could be?! Here be a piccure of the amazing thing.

It be an agility tunnel! I've just turned 8 months old now so Mum has decided I can start doing some agilities!! For now we just doing tunnels, contacts and we're starting wing wraps too but it be oh-so exciting. I just loves it so much, we only did one small session yesterday, and I already be zooming through it with Mum sending me into it and different angles. The only times I did tunnels before is once at the agility class I use to go to, and once at a fun show that me and Mum went to.

I beed barking and the garden gate today, hoping that Mum would let me do some more agilities, but she said she be too cold hehe.

She still took me for a super-fun walk though. We was in the car for quite a long time so I knew we'd be going somewhere extra exciting. It was quite cold and foggy on the way there but I soon warmed up once I started running (ie; as soon as I got out the car!).

Of course she made me do a bit of posing... yawwwn.

My recall has beed a bit rubbish recently, (I a teenager - what does Mum expect?!) so Mum cooked some chicken this morning and brought it with us. I think chicken be my new favourite food. Mum said I was such a good boy and she was really proud of me. I came back every time she called, didn't pull on my lead, didn't try and round up the birds, and didn't run off to other doggies! I thinks I definitely deserves another Crisp Mas for being so good.

Here I be demonstrating my good recalls.

News and video!

2010-01-12T06:17:00.000-08:00

Hurro efferypup!

It feels like I not blogged in ages, we beed so busy. The bad news is that I had to have another poperation on my eye. The first poperation didn't work, and I ended up gettings another ulcer on my eye! My eyelid was still turning in a little bit so they had to take some more skin away. They shaved a load of fur off of my face too and I look realllly stupids now! But that doesn't really matter because the most important thing be that my eye is soo much better. It's all open and Mum says it looks beautiful again.

I looks a right numpty with my face all shaved though. I decided to go for the "one ear up, one ear down" look today. What do you think?

Mum says in a couple of weeks we be going on hol-ee-day! I read all about my brother Ludo's holiday, and it looked like a lot of fun, so I hopes mine will be too! Mum says there be lots of walks around where we staying and a beach too. Woohoo! My favourite.

Annnd another good thing be that we finally figured out how to work videos! We ended up having to use Mum's old compoopter and download a funny converter thing, but we did it eventually.

I be learning a new trick using this funky cone thing:

Eventually I'll be able to stack all the rings onto the cone. The video is our first session, it all freeshaped and as you can see I already able to pick up the purple ring (3rd smallest one). We started targeting the cone thing too. I just think it's one big game! hehe. It probably take me a while to learns it because it quite a difficult trick, but when I can do it we'll post another video!

Anywayyy, here be the video. We hopes it works.

Snow!

2010-01-05T07:35:00.001-08:00

We has more snow, but this time we has PROPER snow! We've got about 10cm (4 inches) all together, Mum says it the most she ever seen. It's sooo much fun, I love catching snow balls (it be my new favourite game) but Mum says the roads are very dangerous and she had to cancel lots of plans today. She was going to take me on a special walk to somewhere new but the roads were too scary to drive on.

Instead we went walkies around the streets and explored some new places. We were going to go on the field so I could have a run round but there were childrens everywhere and Mum said I'd just want to go and play with them, BOL!

It was actually lots of fun, normally I gets a bit bored when I have to walk round the streets but the snow made it good fun. Mum throwed lots of snowballs for me to catch and I even got to play on my front garden off my lead because Mum knew there wouldn't be any cars.

This be our street, as you can see it on quite a steep hill so driving up and down it would be scary! Mum said it was still quite hard work walking up it, because the snow's sooo deep it made her legs hurt, BOL! Mine didn't!

As you can probably see, my eye be getting better! Yesterday I wented to have my stitches out, (which was an ermm... interesting experience!). My 3rd eyelid had been stitched across my eye so I couldn't see, but nows I can see again!! I still gots a few stitches left in but they will disolve on their owns. Another thing you might of spotted from the piccures is that THERE IS NO CONE!! Woooooohooooo. I still gots to keep it on at night and when Mum can't watch me but the rest of the time I not have to wear it! Mum says I beed sooo good at not scratching my eye that she gonna take me to the magical toy shop (the one where we went on my half birthday) to pick out a new toy, when the weather be better. I be one happy puppy.

Crisp Mas and recovery

2009-12-30T06:16:00.001-08:00

Don't laugh too much...

My eye is getting much better, it not be bothering me at all but I still gots to wear this stupids cone, it's a bit weird cos I blind in my poordy eye at the moment too, so sometimes I gets a bit confuzzled. It looks a lot worse that it actually is, but if you get a bit yukky over stitches and stuff, don't biggify the piccure. Mum gots the poordys now though! She gots something called Flu, but not the pig type. Next time it's Crisp Mas I'll tell Santa Paws that it not nice to give people poordys for crisp mas.

We hopes you all had wonderful Crisp Mas's and got loads of cool presents. Thanks for all your Crisp Mas messages and also get well messages too, it's great that I've made such pawsome friends in such a short time!

My Crisp Mas was great, but I think it would of been even better if I not had the stupids cone on. On crisp mas eve we wented and picked up Mum's sister and her childrens (my favourite peoples ever). They stayed allll the time until boxing day. It was great fun stealing their toys hehee. On crisp mas day it was super busy and fun, there was paper everywhere, yummy foods and all sorts. Mum says I didn't gets a proper crisp mas dinner, cos she didn't want to have to put up with me farting BOL!! But I did gets a tin of really cool food called Applaws.

I got really cool presents. My favourite be the blue squeaky ball, that be from Mum's friend who lives in a place called Scotland. I literally not stopped playing with it since crisp mas day, and mum had to confiscate it a couple of times cos it hurted her head too much, BOL!! The reindeer dude makes a super funny noise out of his bum too, BOL! I really good at the puzzle game, mum says Santa Paws should of brought me the difficulter one cos I just tooooooo clever. hehee.

Merry Crisp Mas

2009-12-24T14:28:00.000-08:00

Hurro! Just a quick message to say that I ok. Our internets has broken so we be stealing our next door neighbours wireless, teehehee. Anyway, my poperation went well, my eye be all stitched up and I gots a stupid cone on my head. It realllly annoys me but when Mum not watching I can takes it off. I missed Mum when I was in the vets though, I barkbarked the wholeee time so she could hear me and come and gets me. It worked though cos she did!

Thanks you very much for all your messages, you be sure pawsome pals.

Gots to go now 'cos Santa Paws be coming soon!! Have a super-duper Crisp Mas everyone xxxx

Fizz's eye

2009-12-22T07:28:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, Fizz's Mum here. As you know Fizz went into the vets this morning for a sedation so they could have a good look at his eye. They phoned me a couple of hours later to say that he's got an ulcer on his eye and also entropion! (Where the eyelid turns inwards and the eyelashes irritate the eye) I was told last Wednesday by a different vet that 'no, there's definitely no entripion there' - not happy!!
I'm really suprised it's turned out to be entropion - it was only last Monday that it started to irritate him. I thought maybe he had a bit of grass stuck in it or something, especially since it cleared up and was back to normal on Tuesday/Wednesday. Anyway, it's just one of those things I suppose. Apparently it's quite common in Shelties since they have such tiny eyes.
They're operating on him now and I'll be picking him up tonight, so I'll let you know how he is.

xxx

Snow!!

2009-12-21T09:57:00.000-08:00

Wowww this white stuff that falled from the sky is AMAZING!! I love it soo much and it makes me go dead hyper. Mum took me down to the forest where I had great fun catching snowballs, and playing with other dogs. All the doggies I met were really fun, we met a Schnauzer and he wanted to come and walk with us rather than his own Mum and Dad, BOL!! Then we met a German Shepherd, he was ok at first but then he gots a bit too rough for me so I rolled on my back. Mum said I was a wimp cos he only wanted to play!! He was reallllly big though.
Then we met a little nervous Westie, she was very cute but when she was a puppy she got attacked by a nasty black dog, and ever since then she been scared of doggies. But I was very nice to her, I stood very still while she sniffed me all over (even my bum!!) and in the end she wasn't ascared of me!! We even played a little bit, but I was very gentle with her cos I knows how it feels to be afrightened. Her Mum and Dad said thank you very much and gave me cuddles, they never seed her play with a strange doggie before so they was very happy and liked me lots. Mum was very proud of me too.

Here be some piccures. If you click on them they should biggify (if Mum's done it right! Durrrr.)

Pee ess - my eye be poordy again! Gots to go to the vets again tomorrow for that big sleep that Mum talked about.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-12-16T06:23:00.000-08:00

Being forced to pose yet again.

Pee ess - been back to the vets, and my eye is all better! Woohoooo!

Need cuddles

2009-12-15T04:29:00.000-08:00

...'Cos I gots a poordy! My eye has beed a bit runny on-and-off for a couple a weeks now, but it not beed bothering me, so Mum just keeped it clean and thought it would just get better on it's own. Well, yesterday morning we woked up and I couldn't open my eye at all! Mum tried to have a look at it but I not let her. Later on she took me to the Vets (my favourite place EVER!). Mrs Vet tried to open my eye and look as well, but I not let her either cos I just wanted to give her kisses. My tail would not stop wagging at all.

Anyway, Mrs Vet put some cool stuff in my eye that made it go all numb and bright green, it made my eye open straight away. Cool huh? She still could not see anything wrong with it, so we gots to try these eye drop thingies twice a day to make it better. If it not better tomorrow I might has to have to go into a big sleep (Mum says it called an anesthetic) so Mrs Vet can has a better looky. The good news is that I had 2 lots of my eye droppies now and it's looking much better this morning :-)

Obviously it's absolutely horrendously terrible though, so I beed making mum give me loaaads of cuddles and sweeties and ear rubs all the time. Here I be on my sick bed -

New ball thing

2009-12-12T11:20:00.000-08:00

Mum bought me this new ball thing. But it be no ordinary ball! Food comes out of it!! Can you believe it? How amazing is that?! As you can see, I think it's great.

The reason Mum bought if for me is 'cos I been eating my foods too fast. I eat it sooo quick that I done scary chokings twice now. It frightened me and Mum so she buyed me this ball, it didn't cost much moneys and it's fun, makes me eat slower and it's good exercise too!

Crisp mas and stuff!

2009-12-09T05:02:00.000-08:00

Hurro efferyone.

I knew somethink was happening... All of a sudden a pretend tree with lots of balls on it appeared in my house! Then mum started going out without me lots and coming back with loads of bags with cool things in them. And I started getting a special chocolate every day! Then my brother, Ludo blogged about something called Crisp Mas, and now it all makes sense! All I know is that if you a good doggie, a big man called Santa Paws comes and gives you lots of presents. Sounds good to me. I must remember to be on my bestest behaviours. I looking forward to learning lots more about Crisp mas.

This be me sat looking pretty next to our Crisp mas tree

These be all the cool things Mum keeps bringing home. She puts pretty paper on them and says she is sending them to Santa Paws. At least one of them smells like it could be for me!

And this definitely be the best bit. Every day I gets a special chocolate, they come from somethink called an Adbent Calendar. I not allowed to eats them all in one go though.

In other news, I gots a new bed! It be nice and roomy so I cans stretch out and stuff, cos I outgrowed my other one. Here is me in it -

Here is my friend who keeps me companys at night, his name is Mr Snuggles.

But this is my favouritest bed in the world. It be sooo comfy and mum cuddles me all night. She says I like a hot water botttle. I only allowed to sleep in there sometimes though.

Woofy crisp mas!

~Fizz xxx

Walkies!

2009-11-27T10:24:00.000-08:00

It beed very windy and rainy here for the last week or so, but that won't stop me having fun on my walks! Here be some piccures from a very cold and windy walk the other day.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-11-18T09:07:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday to meeee!

2009-11-16T07:45:00.000-08:00

Today be my half birthday! That means I been alive for 6 whole months, I think that's a long time. I don't feel any different to what I did yesterday though... maybe a bit furrier though.. hmm.

Mum took me to the bestest place in the world today! If you pupsters haven't been then you definitely should go, it be full of funny furry things that look like toys but they alive! Mum said I not allowed to have one of those though, hurruff! There be lots of nice smells, and they have millions of toys and more food than any pupster could ever wish for! There also be lots of people that want to give you cuddles if you put on your cute face. Here be a piccure of the magicial place I talking about.

Mum said I could choose a toy cos it be my birthday. There be sooo many though, it was a really hard decision.

In the end I be very happy with my purchases though! I couldn't just choose one, so I gots 3 squeaky tennis balls and a ball on a rope too, I beed having fun alllll day with them! Mum says she slightly regrets the squeaky tennis balls but I not know why.. I think they makes a lovely noise!

I gots some treats too, they be bacon flavoured and a pretty colour, but Mum says they made me hyper, hehhehee.

Birthday snuggles

~Fizz!

We're back!

2009-11-13T09:50:00.000-08:00

Do I looks growed up?

We be very pleased to be blogging again, but we realllly sorry we has been away for sooo long. We been doing lots. Mainly I been doing lots of growing, I weighs 9kg now and I just about fully growns (apart from my furs!) and it be my half birthday on Monday! I can't believes I been borned for 6 whole months.

A few weeks ago, something terrible happeneded! I beed poorly! I really really bad bumbums and sicksicks and I had to spend 2 days in the vets. I didn't mind though cos I gots lots of cuddles and attentions, it be like a mini holiday really. The only bad thing was they stuck a pointy thing in my leg that puts water in me and that hurt a bit so I tried to chew it out. That hurted even more. I all better now but I still has a shaved paw, tummy and chest for proofs! (My tummy was shaved cos they had to do somthing called an Ultrasound cos Mummy thought I'd eated a sock!! Hehehe, but I hadn't)

We started an agility training class too! At first it was fun but then I got scareded by the big doggies that barked and lunged at me :( I tried to tell them that I be a Sheltie and we can be very sensitive sometimes and I doesn't appreciate being woofed at, but they wouldn't listen. So in the end Mum said she had enough and not take me anymore cos it could make be scared of dogs and agilities forever! I loves agilities though so me don't think that will happen anytime soon! I still be happy though cos we does lots of training in the garden and runnings around and chasing. :-)

Mum says I be going through something that's called my 'teenage years'. She thinks I been being naughty, but I not really, I just having fun!! Mum took me to a new park last week and there were lots of birds that needed chasing. Mum doesn't mind me chasing birds but when she called my name I didn't comes back. What does she expect?! It was soooo much fun I couldn't even hear her!! Anyway I had fun running around and then I spotted a river (I looooveee water!) so I ran over there where Mum couldn't see me so she couldn't find me. Hehehhee. Then I heard Mum calling me, so I went back to find her. She looked all worried and stuff but I not know why? It was a great game! Does any of you pupsters know why she be so worried?

I been good on walks this week though cos Mum been bringing sausages with her! Yum yum yum! I just cannot resist sausage, not even for bird chasings!! Here be a few piccures from our fun walk the other day.

Not yours...

2009-09-15T10:48:00.001-07:00

MINE!

I gots new biscuits and I not be sharing them with mum AT ALL :-)

Piccures

2009-09-13T06:34:00.000-07:00

Hurrrooo!

Thanks for all the messages I beed getting this week, you all do be such pawsome friends :-) You'll all be pleased to know that my teefs are no longer hurtings! I now gots some super-cool extra-white big boy teefs at the front. I beed trying them out on Mummy's hands and they is GREAT for puppy nibbling :-) I not sure Mum likes it too much though, she not be too happy when I tried them on her nose at 4.30am this morning. I not know why??

Today I beed walkies :-) Now I 4 months old I be allowed 20 minutes a day walkies. This still not be enough for me though cos I got lots of zoomies in me! I managed to keep still for about 2 seconds today so Mum took some 'proper' piccures of me. Borrrrringgg!! Although I must say I thinks I look quite regal and proud of myselfs in these ones. I thinks I was watching the duckies at the time..

Mum says I gots funny long legs, but I quite like them actually, they be really great for running fast! I think she just jealous.

When we got home I still had energys so we had some silly play. Back to normal silly piccures!!

~Nose nibbles
Fizz xx

Teefs

2009-09-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

Herro efferypup

Last Saturday I turned 4 months old! It means I'm growing up into a big boy, but I not sure I want to cos Mum says it means I gots to be sensible, which I not likes doing.

Here's what I got for a present :

Great huh? It's my burfday and all I gets is a pain in the... mouth. As you can see I be loosing what's called my baby teefs. All I knows is that it HURTS!!!! Ouchies. My gums are all swollen and I my lips won't close properly cos it be so bad! Mum said it looks like I'm smiling at her sometimes :-)

I did sort of gets a better present though. Now I'm big enough I gets to where my new big boy collar. It be a pretty tuffstuff one with my name embroidered on the back, but Mum couldn't get a good photo of that cos my furs gets in the way. I also got a really cool tag from Dog Online. It says 'I'm not fat, I'm just fluffy' on the front, which I thinks is perfect for any Sheltiedog!!

Mum also trimmed my ears for the first time today, she was ascared of doing it at first cos she never trimmed Sheltie ears before, she trimmed lots of other breeds but never Shelties. I thinks she done a good job though cos I sure do look mighty handsome!

We trying to get some video of my clicker trainings up but Mum still having trouble getting it from her new camera to the pooter. We shall have to find another way!

~Snugs
Fizz

Got squished

2009-09-02T09:43:00.000-07:00

Today I got squished by a great big fat Flabrador. Mum said it was the biggest Labrador she ever seed, and normally she likes them but this one had no manners!! It came booouuuunding over to me and knocked me flying. I squealed but that was only cos I was ascared of getting squished, it didn't really hurt much. It frightened me lots and I hided in a bush so it couldn't get me (it was too flabby to fit in!). Mum says I need to meet lots of nice, well mannered Labradors now so I don't think all of thems will hurt me. Humppphhh. Why don't people teach their dogs recall? I think I should tell all doggies I meet about recall, it be the bestest cos it means you get lots of treats.

Just one photo today cos I not gots much time to blogs. I just had to tell you about my Flabrador ordeal!!!

One of Mum's friends said I looks like a wolf on this photo. I thinks not lady person!!!! I'm a Shetland Sheepy type dog don'cha know! Hurruff!

Beachies/Walkies

2009-08-27T09:52:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to the beach again! This time it was a different beach, and it was definitely my favourite. There was lots of big pools for me to dive in and paddle around, and loads of wet sand to do rollings in. It was sooo much fun, I chased my ball all the time but I didn't give it back to Mum when she asked, hehehee! It was really windy on the beach, the weather man on the tellybision said it was going to do rainings all day, but he was wrong, cos it was dry alll the times we was at the beach (even though I gots wet anyways hehe). Mum said it was a bit cold and she had to put her big winter coat on even though it's supposed to be summer, but I didn't notice cos I has lots of furs already.
Here be some piccures. There be some videos as well, but mum not know how to get them off her new camera. It be called em-pee-foors that's causing the problem apparently.

Today we only been for a little walk in the park. I only apposed to have 15 minutes walks cos I be 3 months old, I still has lots of energy after that but Mum says she got to stick to it cos it might hurts my legs if I runs around too much. Hurrufff!! I still had funs though.

I seed my first ever church place.

Practiced waits.

Poked my tongue out at Mum.

The wind made my ears do sillys.

Played ball

Did starrings at birdies

Practiced heels

Chased my ball

Did posings..

And finally back to the car

It's amazings what you can get up to in 15 minutes =D

Baby wipe

2009-08-24T10:55:00.000-07:00

I had a bit of an incident with a baby wipe today which meant I had to go and see Mr Vet. T'was not pleasent, I cans assure you!

Yesterday I sat with Mum while she brushed her hair and put that face paint stuff on. I gots a bit bored looking at mum putting her face paint on so I runned off with a baby wipe from her bin. hehehe. I don't think Mum realises that baby wipes taste realllly good, and I ate half of one! They sure taste good but I don't thinks I'll be having one again. I went to do poo poos this afternoon, and well...err... it's a bit embarassing for me to say but it gots a little bit stucked! So Mum had to take me to the vets for a bit of help in removing it. Ughhh, not good! I fine now though.

I also gots weighed and had my fleaing and worming stuffs. I weighs 6.2kg!! Mum thinks I going to be a Rough Collie. I've doubled in size over 4 weeks!

Bizzy Fizzy

2009-08-23T15:25:00.000-07:00

I so sorry that I not beed blogging, I've been a very bizzy little (big) puppy. The bad thing is that my Mum's camera broke, so we not has many piccures to share, which makes blogging a big boring. She's picking her new camera up tomorrow though so next week we be able to start bloggering properly agains!

Last week I had another trip to the beach! It was reallllly hot and there was small peoples everywhere wanted to do strokings of me. I didn't mind, of course. I couldn't go runnings off my lead that day though cos there was soooo many peoples there. I met my first girlfriend on that day too. Mum says she was a Whippet type, and she runned very fast and I just wanted to round her up cos she would not keep still for me to say hewwo properly!!

I still been doing my socialisings every day. I been visiting lots of family, and I beed to see my Mum's sister's doggie, Pip. Pip be very old (16!) and sometimes she not like doggies that be rough, but I be very gentles with her and she really liked me and did tail waggies. Mum said I succcch a good boy for being calm around Pip cos I only be 14 weeks old and she says not many puppies at my age have such good self control. I not know what that means though.

I also wented to another fun doggie show. There was lots of poochies there and I even met another Sheltie, and she was the same colour as me!! She was very tiny though, even I was as big as her. Lots of people gave me cuddles, and even tooked photos of me! I must be really handsome.

We been doing lots of trainings too. We started somethings that's called Obedience. Mum says when I a big boy I can go in competitions. I has to do this thing called retrieve, but I not sure why I should bring it back when Mum can go and get it for me??? Something else we do that I find really funs is heelwork, and I really good at it apparently. Mum is going to try and get some videos of me when she gets her new camera.

Sorry that I nots got any photos to share but next week we should have lots and lots and lots to show you.

~Puppy kisses
Fizz

Show

2009-08-02T10:05:00.000-07:00

Well the bad news is I didn't get to go to the beach again, but we still beens having fun! Today we been to a fun dog show. We got there too late for me to enter in anything but I think I would of wonned Cutest Puppy if I had =D
I seed lots of big big doggies, like Great Danes and Wolfhound things, but I was brave and wasn't bothered at all. I was disappointed I didn't see any other Sheltiedogs like me, but I did see some Rough Collies which are like big versions of me! Mum thinks I might grow into a rough collie cos I be so big.
I played with some other poopies, but really I not that bothered about other doggies, I'd much rather play with Mummy cos she's much more funner. We sat next to the agility ring and I soooo wanted to have a go but I be too iccle. Mummy wasn't very happy sometimes cos the dog wardens were running the agility and they were forcing doggies into tunnels and dragging them through weaves and over jumps. Mummy says agilities should be FUN and exciting for doggies, and I agrees wiff her.
Lots of people did strokings of me and lots of doggies wanted to sniff my bum hehe. Mummy did some trainings with me for a little while and we had a really fun game of tuggy with my lead. Mum should really remember to bring a proper tuggy toy when we go out, it's a good job my lead is a TuffStuff one!!

Here be some photos of me, as you can see I be verrry relaxed and not frightened by nuffinks. That's cos I be a big boy.

The beach!

2009-07-31T12:22:00.000-07:00

First of alls I wanna say a huuuge thank you to my big brother Ludo, for posting about me on his bloggie =D I so pleased cos now I gots lots of new friends! And thank you to all my new poochie pals for leaving lots of lovely messages for me and Mum to read! You're all pawsome.

Now, I can confirm to all you doggie pals that 'the beach' is one amaaaaaazing place. Today was the first day in ages that it not beed rainings, so me and Mum went to the beach. It was my first ever walkings and it was so so so fun! I wonder if I gets to go there every day?
Apparently it takes nearly 2 hours to get there, but I didn't notice because I sleeped alllll the way there and allll the way back. Mum said I was good boy.

The first beach was full of childrens playing games and people having picnics, and there wasn't any room for me to run around, so mum put me back in the car and droved down the road a little bit and we found another beach that be almost completely empty and loads of room for doing zoomies and ball throwings!! When Mum first putted me back in the car I gotted very worried cos I thought we was going home again =O

This was the first time I beed off my lead in a different place, and I was a really good boy. I just know I has to come back to mummy when she calls cos I gets yummy biscuits.
First I did some runnings and sniffings, then I did some chasings of my ball and finally we had a game of tuggy! Mummy tried to get me to go in the sea but those big splashy things that mum called waves kept chasing me! Can you believe it? How dare they chase me!!

That's it for now cos I be realllllllllly tired (Mum says I'll hopefully sleep past 5am tomorrow. I don't know why she says that cos that's the bestest play time!). Here be a few photos, there not be many cos I was making mum throw the ball and play tuggy all the time hehe.
I hope we get to go again tomorrow =D

(my ears aren't always like this, it's the wind that makes them do sillys)

'Tis a hard life being a poopy

2009-07-28T07:42:00.000-07:00

Yup, sure is hard being a pupster. Yesterday I mainly did snoozings.

But today was funs! We been playings in the garden, playings in the house, playings in the car...it's great funs!

We beed to Tesco again today. I likes it cos I get lots of snuggles from hoomans and the small hoomans too. Everyone thinks I be a German Shepherd type puppy though, hurrufff!

I did starrings at people who didn't give me attentions.

Then Mum said I was doing sillys with my ears. What does she expect? I'm a sheltie!

Then we played Wubba. Wooohooo my favourites!

In a few days I can go for proper walkings and Mum says if I'm a good boy she might take me somewhere extra specially excitings called The Beach!! I not sures what that means but it must be good =D

~Hugs

Fizzle

Introducing me!

2009-07-26T08:26:00.001-07:00

Hi effuryone

My name be Fizz! I'm a type of puppydog that's called a Shetland Sheepdog, but my Mum said it's a 'Sheltie' for short. Apparently we comes in all sorts of colours, but I be a tri colour, just like my Daddy. My dogmummy beed something called a Sable though, my Mum said she looked a bit like Lassie only smaller. Me not know who Lassie be though?? My Daddy's name is CH Myndoc on a Mission and he is very very beautiful (just like me!!), my mummy showed me lots of picitures of him on the tinternets and I thinks he be very handsome. And my dogmummy's posh name is Merewood Leia. Here be my dogmummy, my human mummy says she couldn't get a very good picture of her cos she couldn't sit still cos she had to keeps rounding all her puppies up, hehe.

But most importantly, here be me! The piciture at the top there shows me when Mummy came to pick me, I was 6 and a half weeks old there. I've grown lots and lots since then and Mummy thinks I growing too much and I should slow down a bit, but I just wants to be a big boy! I has 66g of Burns kibbles every day but I still hungery alllllllll the time so Mummy has to give my puppy milks to fill my boots up. I love my puppymilks though, it reminds me of being with my mummy. I had a good way of eatings it, I had a few kibbles then drinks some milks, then I finish of my kibbles and drinks the rest of my milks.

This is me after having my hair brushed. It's dead fun having my having my hair brusheded cos I likes to eat the brush hehehe. Mummy says that's naughty though cos it cost a lot of monies. I be 9 weeks old here.

I'm 10 weeks old now and yesterday I wented to a place for the Vets for my 2nd injection. All the doggies in there didn't seem too happy but I thought it was great fun cos the lady gave me yummy biscuits! =D I didn't feel my injection at all, probably cos I was too busy eating bisucuits hehehe. I weighs 3.7kg.

Every day me and Mummy go to explore new things. This is called socialising apparently but I don't know why she's bothering cos I ain't scared of nuffinks!! Today we went and stood outside Tesco for a while cos I got lots of cuddles from liccle peoples (they be my favourites!) and got to play tuggy and eat biscuits =D In a few days I'll be able to go proper walkings on the park and I get to play with my brother and sister and meet knew doggies woohooo!!

~Puppy kisses/nibbles

Fizz xxx