{"id":16202,"date":"2025-10-22T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:47:21","slug":"florida-dogs-special-smile-is-spreading-joy-around-the-world-wftv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16202\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida dog\u2019s special smile is spreading joy around the world \u2013 WFTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Florida family\u2019s dog is stealing hearts online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/buddy_bella_birdie\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/buddy_bella_birdie\/\">thanks to a little smirk that\u2019s gotten a lot of attention.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">A senior dachshund named Bella from Tampa is capturing hearts online with her distinctive sideways grin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Bella has become an internet sensation thanks to her unique smile, which is the result of a missing tooth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">\u201cHer smile\u2019s only gotten bigger, and so has her fanbase,\u201d said Melanie, Bella\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Bella\u2019s family never anticipated her look would go viral, but they are delighted that the world loves her just as much as they do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761166041_201_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Florida family\u2019s dog is stealing hearts online, thanks to a little smirk that\u2019s gotten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13826,28,30,29,634,13827,115,1045],"class_list":["post-16202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bella","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-local","tag-melanie","tag-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}