hello everyone,
I am happy to introduce 10 year old GSD Bella from the Upper North Shore.
Bella and I became friends on our shoot, pretty much straight away as I always carry a goodie bag of treats and as her mum Anita says “Bella is always hungry”. 😀
From our pre-session discussions, I knew Bella can get stressed seeing other dogs. So we picked a quiet location in a reserve outside of the city. We successfully avoided a couple of passing dogs by distracting her with food and more food to make sure Bella had a good enjoyable experience, after all it was her time, her day out.
Bella is a heathy and happy dog and still has plenty of beans as she demonstrated during her photoshoot. She enjoyed diving into the grass for her toy and running towards her humans for food 🙂 She also made sure this new area was explored properly.
Bella is full of personality, she gifted us with so many different expressions during this short time. I specially like the one where her mouth is closed, almost like she is pouting! 🙂
It was evident how much love and admiration Anita and her sisters and the whole family have for Bella. She is simply one of them.
“Bella was a very active dog when she was younger. She was also a busybody. Anything that happened she needed to know. Any bird that flew into the yard or any person that walked past our house she needed to tell them off. Now as she has gotten older, she has slowed down a little bit. Although people are still surprised with her energy when I tell them her age. She gets several walks during the day. Usually one longish walk (about 30-40minutes) and some short walks when we go out for toilet breaks. We just moved into a new house before xmas and the fence isn’t up yet so Bella hasn’t had free run of the yard and is inside. Luckily with her age now she is happy to just take it easy and laze around. I don’t think this would have worked when she was younger. She now takes herself to bed much earlier and is not as active as frequent during the day. Although sometimes I think she forgets she is older and still acts like a puppy, doing crazy zoomies. I always tell people Bella is my daughter. My mum and dad also say she is one of their grandkids. It has not always been easy, but Bella is a member of our family. Hopefully we have many more years with her yet.”
Pleasse scroll down to see some of Bella’s highlights.
Not sure about these kisses mum, but I still love wooo 🙂
Head tilt? NOT A PROBLEM 🙂
Family photo!
