Kristen Bell believes that Alex Rodriguez might have been using his pet dogs to flirt with her on a flight from LA to New York.

The 31-year-old actress was on the same flight as the Yankees player two weeks ago, but Bell didn't realize he was a fellow passenger until his pet Chihuahuas escaped from their cages.

"Everyone else on the plane was dead asleep and the lights were down. I crawled up and I opened my eyes and I saw a dog running down the aisle of the plane, like a free range dog," Us Magazine quoted Bell as saying on the show 'Chelsea Lately'.

"So then I'm playing with this dog... and five seconds later, another dog!

"I look at this guy, Daniel, who I've been sitting next to and talking to for the past two hours, and I'm like, 'Are we in the Twilight Zone? Why do I have two dogs in my hands?'" she said.

The 'House of Lies' star "spent the next 20 minutes cuddling" with the two canines.

"They couldn't make an announcement because everyone on the plane was asleep, so the stewardess and I were trying to Veronica Mars our way out of this, and I realized I did clock two dog carriers," she said.

"I definitely saw these two Chihuahuas coming out of A-Rod's dog carrier," she added.

The actress said that she wanted to wake up the baseball star and inform him about the dogs but was refrained from doing so.

"I wanted desperately to walk over and shake him and say, 'Excuse me, Mr Rod? I think I found your dogs.

"But the stewardess wouldn't let me do it, so I had to shove them back in his case."

Upon further reflection, Bell realized that Rodriguez might be using his dogs to bait her into having a conversation.

"I thought, 'Is this Svengalian Don Juan actually planting these dogs for us to have an interaction?' Cause you know he's got a way with the ladies," she said.

"Did he just curl up and open the dog case and be like, 'See ya later, KB?'

"Was I being tricked into having an interaction? That's what you think of when you see somebody like that," she added.