Bella looking back at you

Bella looking back at you
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Bella story time...

Don't think i've told you about Bella and her opossum. It all started when Bella was much younger and there use to be this opossum that lived in our intown neighborhood. Now you have to understand that it is rather unusual to have a opossum living inside a big city between the tall buildings, cars and sidewalks, but this opossum not only did that but seem to do quite well (in fact it live for quite a long time). For Bella this opossum was what she wanted more than anything else in the world. If she was at the window and the opossum went by, she would freak and follow it from window towindow circling the whole house. She even knocked out one of the windows on Thanksgiving (but that's a whole another story for a different time). Anyway she would try anything and everything to get this slow as snail moving opossum but it was always she was either in the house, it was on the other side of the fence (in fact once it sat down beside our neighbor's chocolate lab, who never cared about it and just stared at the silly weime jumping up and down on the other side of the fence. it was really rather a strange sight).

Well, all in all, at all came down to on night when Scott was letting Bella out around 3am to go pee. We were talking when we open the door and not more than 15 feet away sure enough there was the opossum. Now you have to understand that when moments like this happen everything seem to move in slow motion, everything that is except for the weime. Bella and her humans all saw the opossum at the same time but no matter how fast you think you are, you are never as fast as a weime. The opossum seeing us turned slowly aruond and started waddling off. Bella took off, skipping all the steps, Scott took off next and then Gwen. Bella at that time was as fast as a bullet and could out run some small cars so she was pretty much flying, if you know what i mean. Anyway, she was moving so fast that she completely ran right over the opossum because it was moveway slower than she had thought. She rolled over to turn back where she ran right into Scott. The two of them fell into a rolled mass with Gwen right smack into the two them. The three of us became the this huge mess of arms and legs with us grabing and holding Bella anyway we could. Meanwhile, the opossum was still making it's slow waddling path toward the back fence, and as it pass us tangled together and Bella snapping at the air. It just glanced over and ambled on.
Bella was very mad at us for stopping her destruction of the opossum, well at least until she decided that the squirrels were a bigger evil.