Oh Bella

I just really feel the need to talk about Bella a little bit. We've been talking a lot about all of the weird and quirky things Bella does, and something prompted me to search youtube for other boxer videos. I quickly learned that Bella is neither weird nor quirky but right at home with the rest of her breed. Here are a few hilarious things Bella does...plus a video or two of other boxers doing things that I can totally see Bella doing. I'm working on uploading a video of Bella (its about 5 minutes) that I will hopefully be able to post later. For now....Bella's quarks...or so we thought:
She barks at nearly everything...and I mean everything...with the exception of people. Hopefully we wont need her as a watch dog because she loves people too much!! Some examples of things she barks at include:

• food/water dish
• large branches that have fallen off trees in the backyard
• rake
• shovel
• and my favorite of all...the sky. Yes thats right, she barks at the sky. Because we live so close to the base, we often have sonic booms and her response to such a thing is to bark at the sky because thats where that noise comes from.

One of our favorite and most hilarious things she does has to do with when she passes gas. Its a pretty raunchy smell so we have taken to having a febreez spray bottle close at hand. Bella does not like the spray bottle. It used to be that whenever she passed gas, we'd spray the bottle to help mask the smell and she would run away from the bottle. Now, we don't even have to get to the spraying part before she runs away. When she passes gas, the perks her head and ears up real fast...looks back toward her rear end (as if she was saying "what the heck was that?!?!") then proceeds to quickly look at us (with the most guilty look I might add) and run away from the place of the incident.

She is afraid of nearly all the baby paraphernalia around the house and will run away if we put any of it near her (including the bags of dirty diapers). Anywho...here is a video of a boxer who is barking at/seems to be afraid of a little white jewelry box...something I could see Bella doing.

This video is will also give you a great idea of what Bella would do. This dog named Stella (maybe Bella's long lost cousin) is barking at the lawnmower. Bella doesn't bark at the lawnmower, but she does bark at the vaccuum and try to bite it while I'm vaccuuming.