Meet Champ the Wonder Dog!

There's been an exciting development here at The Corner Lot. WARNING: Prepare yourself for an onslaught of cuteness.  

This is Champ!

He is a chocolate lab/pointer mix - two of my favorite breeds all wrapped up in one deluxe package!  It turns out that this combo of breeds is on the International Designer Breeds Registry and is sometimes known as a "pointador," but our little guy is a pound puppy from Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Fryeburg, Maine.

All this growing makes him really sleepy all the time.

We had just started looking for a doggy when we saw him on Harvest Hills' website on a Friday night.  On Saturday we went to check him out, and on Sunday he came home with us. Ideally we would have waited until spring, but then we realized that the likelihood was pretty slim that we'd find another puppy so handsome and mellow within a reasonable drive from us when we were supposedly "ready."  Now we barely remember what it was like before we had him!

He already has a girlfriend named Daicey, a black lab blend adopted by our friends a few days after we got Champ.  Here he is with his arm around her.  She is named after one of the most beautiful places on earth, Daicey Pond in Baxter State Park, and he is named after Champ, the lake monster in Lake Champlain.  We think they're going to be good swimmers.

Here's Champ helping Dad tap a maple tree.  Yup, it's that time of year again.  

More sleeping.  

Good boy!