After my last post, a whole lot of you people left me comments saying that you wanted to see a video of Bella ringing the bell. Which seemed like a great idea to me… in fact I had grand visions of this brilliantly edited montage of video after video after VIDEO of Bella ring-ring-ringing the bell, with “you can ring my bell” playing in the background. Hilariously wonderful, right?
Wrong.
Here’s the thing. Over the past week I’ve spent, oh I don’t know, FIVE HUNDRED MILLION HOURS or so trying to capture the bell-ringing on video.
Here’s just one clip that represents the sum-total of my efforts.
I think I’m going to title it “Bell? What bell? I don’t see any bell…” or maybe “AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! would you just RING THE FLIPPING BELL already?!”
She does ring it. I promise.
Just not for the video camera.
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February 3, 2009 at 12:21 am
Aaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahah! I LOVE it! That’s like Bee anytime I try to take a photo of her doing anything remotely cute. She immediately stops and then screams at me to give her the camera. I know have an entire SD disc filled with images of Baby Bee running toward the camera with outstretched hands…
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February 3, 2009 at 5:37 am
aw, but she’s SUCH a cute dog :-)
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February 3, 2009 at 5:51 am
LOL That’s just like trying to get your kid to show people how smart they are. “Honey, count to 3.” *kid sticks finger in nose* “Honey, show Grandma how you count to 3″ *kid looks at you like you’re stupid”
Bella’s adorable! She looks diff. in the video than she did in her pictures. Pictures didn’t do her justice. And now… I want to steal her. Mwahahaha
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February 3, 2009 at 6:07 am
and she is a cute poser. just sitting there letting you take her picture!
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February 3, 2009 at 6:44 am
Just like kids…always proving you wrong. I love it.
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February 3, 2009 at 7:53 am
Bella is soooo cute. It’s a shame her Mom’s all nutters with that bell ringing hallucination.
Kidding!!
February 3, 2009 at 8:22 am
Of course, she is not going to ring it. She knows all about your blog, lol.
February 3, 2009 at 9:36 am
Hilarious! She is soooo adorable though. Those big beautiful eyes make me melt. Such a sweetie.
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February 3, 2009 at 10:15 am
She is too cute!! Of course she rings the flippin bell when she is darn good and ready to!!
Totally believe you!
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February 3, 2009 at 10:29 am
hehehehehe. That was way too funny.
Of course she’s not going to do what you ask when you have a camera pointed at her! All dogs are like that!
February 3, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Bella’s life purpose on this planet is to make you look like a big liar on your blog. Didn’t you see it in her eye? When she turned her head sideways? Jenny, she’s got your number.
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February 3, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Sure! I believe you…. *cough* *cough*
This reminds me of that old Warner Bros. cartoon with the singing and dancing frog that only performs for it’s master.
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February 3, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Haha – my little girl does that too – she stops whatever she is doing immediately when i turn on the camera!
What a cute dog though!
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February 3, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Bella is so flippin’ adorable! And she looks terribly worried that she’s done something wrong. “Why is mom pointing that funny thing in my face?” That’s Bella talking…
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February 4, 2009 at 10:49 am
creative dad, I remember that cartoon! Hilarious!
jenn, welcome to dog ownership. but such a cute nose! you should see me with the camera and Becca…”come on, make that cute face again, head tilt, ears up look, come on! (dog: head straight, ears back, blinks, blinks)
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February 4, 2009 at 11:55 am
Aaawww! Too sweet! My dog rings a bell too! Same thing..very cool, at first. Now? Not so much. She rings it if the cat is sitting outside the door and wants in. She rings it to get me to feed her. I’m definitely her door (wo)man to put it nicely.
February 5, 2009 at 7:35 am
Oh, how funny! lol. I suppose it’s sorta like when your car acts up and you take it to the mechanic and it suddenly doesn’t do it anymore. lol. Too funny!
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February 5, 2009 at 3:05 pm
They never perform when you need them to. And you pulled the cat bait. When I say “Kitty Cat” to my pup he gives a the cutest look, except when I have my camera of course.
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February 6, 2009 at 10:23 am
Isn’t that always the way? I’m sure as soon as you turned off the camera she rang that bell like there’s no tomorrow.
She’s incredibly cute,btw
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February 7, 2009 at 10:06 am
Hey Jen I LOVE your blog!! And thats why I have chosen to give you the Lemonade Award! CONGRATS!!! Keep up the good work and I will send you the picture that goes along with this award in email form….
Thanks for all the laughs you give with your posts.
Sincerely
Amiee L aka Frugalqueen
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February 7, 2009 at 10:42 am
I have the same problem with my baby, Maggie. I can’t get her to do anything on purpose. LOL
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February 7, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Hey there, I’m missing my Bananas fix…is all good on the home front?
February 8, 2009 at 9:46 am
Ha ha ha ha !!!
Whenever I try to catch Stinkerbell on video it’s too dark or she’s behind the couch or runs away or whatever… I feel your pain.
Animals have an instinct to stop whatever cute/funny thing they are doing the very instant you point a camera at them.
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