Bella by candlelight

Bella by candlelight
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Bella tuckered out.
We had our close friends Bill & Michele over before they leave (sucks, they'll be gone for three months). Bella was soooo excited to see them (she did a little Bella dance for them when they arrived). We drank wine, ate, played molecuball (of course! Bella must be center of attention) and talked till the wee hours.
Bella didn't make all night, but still had to be the center of attention even after falling asleep.
Cute little purple nose.

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty
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The little princess just got a new bed, we think it passes the Bella test.

Bella taking a stand

Bella taking a stand
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Ok, silly humans, where is my treat. I did my one job (looking cute), now where's the damn treat!

Bella sleeping

Bella sleeping
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When your belly is pink and doesn't have any fur you sometimes get cold and yes sometimes we just sit around and watch her sleep. We know - we're freaks, she is our little girl you know and what better way to spend your spare time.

Bella closeup

Bella closeup
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She's always watching, even when you think she not.
It's funny, we could be painting and her sleeping on one of her beds (or so you think she's sleeping). You may even hear a little Bella snore, and you think 'Oh, i can get us some wine or something'. You quietly move, tip-toeing to make sure you don't make a noise, there's even music or a book on CD for cover, but then the eyes POP! open and you are busted. The Bella monster knows you are up to something and there's no escape. The love toll must be payed! Silly humans.

Bella & Gwen

Bella & Gwen
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Sorry for the blur, but Bella was way to excited to stay still. You see, one of her silly humans (Gwen) went out of town this past weekend and she really, really miss her. Being the velcro dog that she is, she likes to have both her peps with her at all times, one is not enough.

Even though i sleep in my girl's spot on the bed while she is away, sit on my boy's foot while he paints and generally follow my boy everywhere he goes so that i know where he is at all times (don't like those silly humans leaving my control). i am sooooo excited and happy my Gwen is home!

Bella Hide-n-Seek

Bella Hide-n-Seek
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know this shot is a little grainy, but it was shot in the dark.

You see one of Bella favorite games to play even when she was the tiniest of little pups has been hide-n-seek.
Sometimes it's her that does the hiding; under sheets or a blanket (she's always loved having herself completely covered including her head) and she loves it when you look under the sheets to find her, that's when you get all tongue and the more you giggle the funnier she thinks it is.

The other way she likes to play hide-n-seek is when one or both of her silly humans hide. She gets all excited and you can hear her running around the house, barking and looking through everything and everywhere to find whomever is hiding. She always knows when the game is afoot and she will always find you. heehee, silly weime

Bella and her molecuball

Bella and her molecuball
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Bella loves this toy and i must say i could sit and watch her playing with it all day. The toy is like three balls fused together with a small hole in the middle. The idea is that you can put small treats in it and your dog will knock and chase it around to get the treats out. Bella, being smarter than the average bear, figured out that it's much easier to pick it up and walk over to one of the silly humans in the house and throw it against the human (no matter where they are in the house or what they are doing. Bella rule #2, of course is what Bella is doing is way more important than what either of the silly humans are doing, this rule comes in a close second to Bella rule #1 - What's hers is hers, what's yours is hers.).
This gets two results, first a treat almost always falls out and the silly human is then obligated to sit and roll the molecuball back to her everytime she rolls it to you. Like i said, the girl is smarter than the average bear. She's figured out how to make it easier to get the treats out, get a silly human to play with her, be the center of attention (she has been known to do this at our small parties so that everyone winds up sitting on the floor around her rolling the molecuball back to her as she rolls to to different people. It's like wieme spin-the-weime with molecuball & bella kisses) and make everyone laugh all at the same time.
Just remember if you come over, you might just have molecuball duty, it will definitely make you laugh, beside this is Bella's house remember rule #1.

Bella with her frog

Bella with her frog
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After a hard day of being cute and playing, nothing like taking a little nap with your favorite frog while the silly humans paint.

Bella found object sculpture

Bella found object sculpture
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Ok, so here's the silly little story of Bella's found sculpture of shoes.

As anybody that is lucky enough to share their life with a crazy little k9 knows, there are many little weird and out there things that our little better halves tend to do. One of Bella's strange little quirks that she does when we are out is that she will go and collect right shoes. Yes, just the right, never the left, we aren't sure what it is about right shoes that she likes so much or rather what it is about left shoes that she doesn't like, but she has done this since she was a pup-pup and she has never chewed or destroyed a pair of shoes yet (nor anything else for that matter except for a Toulouse-Lautrec book and we aren't sure what it is about Toulouse that she didn't like, but she can be a bit of an art critic at times).
Anyway, one of her favorite things to do with the right shoes that she collects is create interesting little stacks or patterns with them. She doesn't always do the collecting of right shoes and make these weird little sculptures, it's really rather a 'whenever she gets the bug' kind of thing. We (the silly humans, who are too easily amused) call them Bella's found object sculptures. The funniest is when she picks up a right shoe and carries it around and even sleeps with it. The shoe is then hers until she decides you can have it back and if you try to trick her with a left shoe she will turn nose up to it. Left shoes are just not her bag, man. She is a silly little thing and definitely smart enough to know the difference between the left and right shoes.

Bella duo

Bella duo
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Bella sleeping on white

Bella: Little Miss. Rednose

Bella: Little Miss. Rednose
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Someone has been bad while we were out. Little Miss Bella, always a strong willed girl and always one who can open any closed door, decided that she should be in the bedroom on the bed while we were out and tried to open the bedroom door with her nose (look closely and you can see the redness).
It's not that we care whether she gets on the bed or not (our bed is her bed, Bella rule: what's her's is her's, what our's she her's), but that when we aren't there it's just safer for her not to be jumping up & down off the bed without us being there to help her. Anyone with an older puppy can understand i'm sure, she's just not as strong as she use to be. The problem is little Miss. Houdini here, has always been able to open any door no matter the handle or closure, plus if you just simply block off the door then she will move whatever it is in the way and then open the door. So we are always having to come up with new ways of keeping her from opening the door and trust me, it's hard work trying to out smart a Bella weime (and i do mean HARD WORK!, she smarter than the two of us put together).

Oh and don't worry, she has two really nice beds in the front room and studio, they are just as nice as her bed and our bed in the bedroom (twin futons folded over with Urban Sprawl® dogbed on top with soft cover and pillows. Yes, she's a pricess, spoiled and we are crazy) The problem is she just wants to go where she can't.

Bella doughnut

Bella doughnut
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The little cutie getting a little beauty sleep (not that she needs it, but extra never hurts).

Bella Fuss

Bella Fuss
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We think sometimes Bella just likes to bark to hear herself bark, that and the fact that little Miss. Bella has an opinion about everything whether you want to hear it or not.

Bella 12 years and still a looker

Bella 12 years and still a looker
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She's still the cutest little thing i've ever seen and as you can see, she's never been shy of the camera.
She's our little girl and the center of our world (and knows it too). She makes us smile and laugh and is the most incredible dog i've ever known (and better than 99% of the people too). Just saying "I love this dog."

Bella and those deer eyes

Bella and those deer eyes
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The silly humans never have a chance against the "Weime Deer Eyes" mind warp...

Bella sidestep

Bella sidestep
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She love to stick her leg out weird like this, it's always kind of funny.

The Whole Dryerball Incident

The Whole Dryerball Incident
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The loose dryer ball is no longer ours, the Bella has claimed it. It try to get free of it's dryer ball duties, but now faces a life of weime torment. Whoa is the dryer ball, but happy is the weime. Guess which one wins. hehe

The Dryer Ball Incident 5

The Dryer Ball Incident 5
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My toy, go get your own.

The Dryer Ball Incident 4

The Dryer Ball Incident 4
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She just too damn cute, had to let her keep the dryer ball.

The Dryer Ball Incident 3

The Dryer Ball Incident 3
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hmmm, smells like fresh clothes

The Dryer Ball Incident 2

The Dryer Ball Incident 2
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Mine all mine.

The Dryer Ball Incident 1

The Dryer Ball Incident 1
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What's hers is hers, what's yours is hers. The little soft blue dryer ball rolled out of the warm clothes when they came out of the dryer and someone decided that it was hers.

Bella watching

Bella watching
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There's always one eye watching...

Bella being goofy 3

Bella being goofy 3
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Silly, silly Bella...

Bella being goofy 2

Bella being goofy 2
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The happiest girl around...

Bella being goofy 1

Bella being goofy 1
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She is a freaking comedian and just trys to make us laugh.

Bella watching

Bella watching
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She's doing that weime mind warp thing again. It's the Bella mojo, you will succumb...

Bella the Cowgirl 2

Bella the Cowgirl 2
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Surprise, it's just me, your friendly Bella!

Bella the Cowgirl 1

Bella the Cowgirl 1
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Who is that under that hat?

Bella in the sun

Bella in the sun
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Bella's opinion of the fact that we haven't had any rain of late. Rain, rain, we need rain.

Bella the sunbaby

Bella the sunbaby
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just love her smile.

Bella beautiful

Bella beautiful
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The girl knows she's a looker. Hope i look this good at 12.

Bella closeup again

Bella closeup again
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Sorry, another up close and personal photo of the Bella head, but we just can't get enough of the little purple nose. It's all in those deer eyes, she has the biggest eyes and she knows how to use them.

Bella collage

Bella collage
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Just a grouping of shots of the cutie up close.

Bella nose & feet

Bella nose & feet
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How could you not love this little purple nose.

Bella being silly

Bella being silly
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There's nothing like a silly Bella, not to mention the fact that she's a freaking con-artist. That's what they do, act all cute & sweet, want you to rub their belly, sucks you in and the next thing you know the weime licks your face and nibbles your nose.

Bella with treats

Bella with treats
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The silly humans obviously have not gotten this subtle hint thing down yet, and they definitely don't realize who's really in charge here.

Bella busted

Bella busted
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Ammm...someone messed up my bed, i don't know who, i was just trying to fix it.

Bella fuzzy

Bella fuzzy
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Bella and her little fuzzy toy. It vibrates when you pull the string, and well you know a girl always has to have something that vibrates.

Bella jump

Bella jump
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This is a little bit of a throw back, Bella a couple of year ago when her legs were stronger (up until a few years ago, she was always a jumping-jack rabbit). Just wanted to post this pic, one of our favorites. The great news is Bella's acupuncturist is back in town (Dr. Hyatt) and he was able to work his magic last night on her legs and back. She moving around much better, and over the next couple of days as the treatment really starts to kick in, she get stronger & stronger. Dr. Hyatt turely has the magic touch!
We'll probably have him come out again end of next week to give her another treatment and boost. When the girl feels good, the silly humans are happy.
Take care & toodles everyone.

Bella the sun baby

Bella the sun baby
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Bella enjoying the sun in the backyard.

Bella waiting

Bella waiting
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Sometimes waiting for the silly humans to finish with their painting is hard work.

Bella playing molecuball

Bella playing molecuball10
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Ready for another round of molecuball, i could go all night.
when they're that cute, they get you every time.

For the whole series click on her Flickr site in our links.

Bella sleeping

Bella sleeping
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Bella had a rough weekend, our poor girl just wasn't feeling well all weekend long. She seems to be feeling a little better today, also her acupuncture doctor has been out of town for two weeks now and she really needs a treatment for her legs and back. I know it seems strange to those who have never seen what acupuncture can do, but it's amazing how much better she acts, moves and feels after she had a acupuncture treatment. We're really hoping that Dr. Hyatt gets back in town in the next day or two.

Bella cutie

Bella cutie
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Hey to all Bella's friends and have a great weekend!

Bella the huntress

Bella the huntress
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Hello, my name is Bella and i am a huntress. I like to kill small little furry things to the dismay of the silly humans.

So the story behind this (one of Bellas many kills) goes as such. The three of us, one day, were standing in the backyard, Bella jumping around and being silly, us talking and watching our girl. Scott notice a hole in the ground near where we were standing and being a guy decided he should take a big stick and see how deep the hole was. Bella, being the curious weime, of course was rather interested in the hole held as well. Well sure enough, as soon as Scott pull the stick back out of the hole a chipmunk came running out and Bella took off right after it. And the race was on, the chipmunk (poor thing never had a chance), Bella, then Scott and then Gwen. Of course the silly humans never even had a chance in hell of catching Bella before she caught that chipmunk and as you can see she did catch it. She ran it down like a true pro and then proceeded shake it and dance, she was very proud of herself and i have to say after you past the horror of it all you do have a sense of - Wow, my little girl just ran down a creature like a true huntress. This is what weimes are meant to do and the speed and skill by which she did was amazing. We do like to think that it was killed instantly, but the huntress was very proud of herself. After the fact, Scott and Bella had a stand-off for an hour and a half before Bella would drop the poor little thing. Her opinion was that she caught it, it was hers so go get your own, damnit.

Anyway, in the end we bury the very dead chipmunk in the far backyard and the proud huntress got a homecooked steak instead.

bella bark

bella bark
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Just a cool photo of the little one giving her opimion about something.

Bella being rude

Bella being rude
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Sometimes even a diva media princess gets tried of the camera.

Worn Out

Worn Out
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We had some very dear friends over this weekend and of course Bella was Miss. Entertainment and center of attention. By Sunday night she was just worn out, being a 'Star Dog' is hard work. She takes her job as greeter, kisser of faces (except for faces with beards, but that's another story) and all around entertainer of all very seriously.