good smells tonight

Today we took our walk at dusk! It was so wonderful, especially because it was cool and windy and there were clouds in the sky and it rained! It feels like Autumn! YAY!

I loved walking tonight also because I smelled LOTS of good stuff. I sniffed and sniffed and sniffed. And I made peepee A LOT tonight, and because I was feeling very good and energetic, I kicked the ground after every peepee! I sent dirt flying all over the place! I have on my happy face when I do this. Mommy thinks I am silly and cute.

I wonder what tomorrow's walk will be like? Will it be cool and moist and yummy-smelling? I hope so!

Love, Bell

on our walk this morning...

On our walk this morning, I saw a doggie that I normally bark like crazy at! Sammy pulled on his leash to say "Hi" to the doggie.... the doggie (a Jack Russell Terrier) pulled on his leash to say "Hi" to Sammy. Mommy and the nice lady walking the JRT said "Hi" to each other.

What was I doing? I was crouched down, low to the ground, creeping forward... I was getting closer and closer to the JRT doggie.... then I SPRANG AT HIM! And I.....

...I sniffed him and we said doggie "Hi" to each other! Mommy was so proud of me!

At the last second the JRT made growlies at me, so me and Sammy and Mommy walked calmly away, and I did not bark at all! In fact I made little cries like I wanted to say "Hi" some more!

Mommy was amazed and baffled by my not-barky episode. I am a Cattle Dog, brilliant and fierce and filled with potential squeak-barks. But sometimes I'm just a surprising little dog, and this morning I thought I'd surprise Mommy! She loved it.

Next time maybe I will surprise her by not grabbing the leash and pulling madly on it at the beginning of our walkie ;)

Love, Bella

walkies 8/29/12

Mommy has been walking me and Sammy together lately! At first I thought that it wasn't very fun because Sammy walks very slowly... but this is turning out to be great fun!

Me and Sammy love to sniff all the same things, and we take our time sniffing.... and peeing. He pees on something, and then even though I'm a girl doggie, I raise my leg and pee on his pee. Then I love to scratch the ground up and send dirt and weeds and leaves flying all over the place. Sammy does it sometimes too, but not as much as me.

This morning we walked a little bit later and it was already getting hot out. Even though we did a slow sniffy walk, we both were tired by the time we got home. You can really wear yourself out sniffing and peeing and scratching the ground!

Love, Bella

I'm going to be okay!!!

I don't have a mast cell tumor!!!

It was a Plasmacytoma, a benign cancer! It was totally encapsulated, doesn't recur, doesn't metastasize, and is considered curative if complete excision is achieved -- and he got it all!!!!

YAY!!! Thank you to everyone for your prayers, and thank you to God for answering them!!

Love a very happy Bella and I VERY happy and thankful Mommy!!!

Please Pray for Bella

Hi everyone, this is Bella's Mommy, Jodi.

Please pray for Bella today, she is at the vet having a tumor removed from her foot. The vet says we won't know if it's cancer or not for a couple days, he has to send it off to pathology.

This dog is my heart, thank you for any thoughts or prayers you send her way.

Thank you, Jodi

I have a growth on my foot :(

Hi everydoggie....

I have a growth on my foot and I have to go to the vet first thing in the morning to have it looked at. Mommy says it worries her. I am just worried that I have to go to the vet, since that is NOT my favorite place to go!

Mommy says that if the vet doesn't want to keep me for the day to have it removed, we will go for a fun walk on the trail as soon as we leave the vet's office!

So... please say a prayer that the growth on my foot is nothing serious and that I will get to go for a fun (if rainy) walk tomorrow rather than spending the day at the vet.

Love, Bella

Halloween is coming!

I love Halloween!

Guess why...

I think it is great fun to be SCARY!!

Sammy, my doggie brother, has the "treat" in trick-or-treat covered, and my job is to take care of the trick part of the equation.

See, if anyone is silly enough to come to our door to knock and ask for candy... well, they will be standing there waiting patiently for the door to open when BAM!!! I will hit the front window barking like a wild thing!! Hahaha! They will be expecting a treat, but they will get me -- a scary TRICK!!

oh... Mommy says I will not be allowed to play my part in the trick-or-treat experience.

Maybe I will just join Sammy in begging for treats (dog treats, not candy), or maybe I will join Autumn in growling and barking at random doors in our house to scare Mommy and Daddy into thinking there's a monster there...

Love, Bella

A fun afternoon!

This afternoon Mommy and I had some fun, just the two of us!

We went into town and walked for awhile... until we saw Mommy's Daddy! We visited him and I gave him love and wags. Then, while Mommy and her Daddy talked, I wanted to bark at doggies and skateboards and strange men as these things passed by, but Mommy wouldn't let me.

After we visited for awhile with Mommy's Daddy, we walked some more! It was a wonderful fall day, so nice and cool and cloudy, we just loved it!

Oh yes, I can't forget, I got to ride in the car to town and back again, which I love! I'm belted in (I have a car harness), so Mommy opens the window partway so I can sniff the fresh air and bark out the window at things like horses and cattle!

This was a nice afternoon!

Love, Bella

I went to the river today!

Today was lots of fun!

Of course, first thing in the morning I got to go for my walk. Like usual, I raised my leg and marked like a boy doggie lots of times, and I scratched the ground up when I was done too, and I always have on my very cute happy face when I am scratching the ground!

Then it was breakfast time, and breakfast had turkey in it! YUMMY!

Then we relaxed for awhile... until Mommy looked at me and said "Bella wants to go for a ride in the car?", which is one of my favorite things she asks me! OF COURSE I DO! And guess where she was taking me? To a hiking trail that leads to a sandy beach at the river!

I had so much fun hiking and playing in the water today! I met four doggies who were very nice, although one of them did steal my stick, but Mommy found me another one. I don't really swim, but I LOVE to run and splash and jump in the water, and I chased sticks and barked and wagged and splashed a lot! It was such fun, and Mommy said we will be doing that again!

Then tonight when I got home, there was turkey in my dinner! YAY!

Now it's sleepy time for speckled little me...

Goodnight!

Love, Bella

Today's adventure...

Hi Dogster friends!

Today when Mommy came home, Daddy let me out in the front yard to greet her. As soon as I got outside, I began rolling like mad in some weeds. Mommy asked Daddy, "What is she rolling in?" and Daddy said, "I sprayed Round-up there earlier..." and Mommy about had a heart-attack! OH NO! She grabbed the hose and rinsed my face and eyes right away, and then called the doggie ER to ask what to do. Guess what they said: Give the dog a bath!!

So that's what Mommy did... she took me in the backyard and broke out the hose. I thought we were going to PLAY and I got all excited. But Mommy put a leash on me and didn't let me run and jump and bite the water, instead, she put tearless shampoo on me and scrubbed and rinsed, and then she put conditioner on me and rinsed!

Now I'm a nice soft sweet-smelling doggie! Rolling in round-up was NOT a good thing, and getting a bath with the hose instead of playing with it was NOT a fun thing... but being soft and fluffy and good-smelling IS a good thing since now Mommy can't stop touching my silky fur (this means lots of PETTING!)...

Love, Bella