Bella - Day 2

Bella had a good day yesterday. She greeted our remodeling contractor with no hesitation. We continue to be in awe of how obedient she is. She is extremely attentive all the time.

Training class went very well last night. Bella did perfectly!! She had fun during play time with one particular shepherd puppy named Ace who seemed mesmerized by her pink collar, when they would play, he kept pulling on her collar like he wanted to take it off! She held her own though and they seemed to be a good match for each other. Boy was she tired when she came home though.

The only thing Marlene told us was that she wondered how Buddy was going to do with a doggy door, and Bella without one. Bella is doing fine. In fact,this morning when I let her out of the crate, she headed straight for the front door and I let her out on the tie out, and she did her thing and came right back to the door. So, they are quick learners for sure.

Bella gets lots of attention around here because she is much more affectionate than Buddy is, you just want to hug her all the time. She is just a sweetheart. With the weather, we really don't have any outings scheduled, but we will make a point of even just getting her out to the grocery store or somewhere in town here if nothing else. She sure does love to be on the go. She seems deflated when Jeff leaves for work in the morning and she cannot go along, but she's easily conjoled with a little game of fetch. Right now, she is again sleeping here in my office as I work--which I better get back to. Glad to hear Buddy is adapting. He's quite the independent little mutt.

Wow! I can't get over that a bird flew into your house. You will know soon enough if one of the dogs got it, but you're right, I can't imagine they would eat it that fast. Something must have been wrong with the bird, to fly in and then to get hit by the fan--you'd think birds would be better at avoiding both of those things unless it was sick or hurt already. If it got back out, boy will it have a good story to tell the other birds, right?!

We've been crating Bella at night because that's what we do with Buddy, but honestly once she is in there, we do not hear a peep until we get her out in the morning, and she comes bursting out. One thing about those dogs, they are always happy. It does not surprise me that Buddy has taken to Fran, he is definitely a man's dog. Like Jeff said, we try to think of things to work on with Bella, but there don't seem to be areas--the only thing we've had to tell her repeatedly is to stay "off", the couch or bed, but she only tries to get up on them to be closer to you, so it's really hard to tell her No, but we have been.