Smiling Bella?

Here's the latest Bella update. She did quite well in puppy class tonight -- much better than last week. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that there were two dogs missing, so we had only 4 dogs there instead of 6. Whatever the reason, I was thankful for a somewhat calmer Bella at the end of my leash.

We've been working on a variety of different tricks with Bella. She's so smart that she catches on almost immediately to everything. And now that we have a small collection of tricks, we can ask her to do them "rapid-fire" and she loves it. She now knows how to "talk" (a quiet, low, grumbly doggie talk; e.g., "roo, roo"), "roll over" (she learned that one today), "sneak," "pounce," "smile" (see the picture below), "dance," and a version of "shake." I think that's it.


Getting ready to bother one of the cats . . .


She loves yogurt! She always gets to lick out my dish when I'm finished. Tonight I polished off the last of the tub and she got to clean it out. I tried to get a picture of her yogurt-covered face, but it didn't turn out.


Pretty pose


This was me trying to catch Bella doing the "smile" trick. Her lips were either on the way down or the way up, I'm not sure; but I didn't catch it at the right moment, and she just looks goofy.


What a grown up lady.