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I'm Champ!
My warm brown eyes say it all: "loving, gentle, calm boy looking for family!" 

I was picked up in a rural area, and ended up at a high-kill shelter.  That means they don't give dogs very long to be adopted before we get put to sleep.  However, the staff made an exception for me (which DOES NOT happen often!) because they fell in love with me.  They called local rescues and MARS jumped at the chance to help me out!

Now I am in a wonderful foster home and have exposure to all of life's greatest things!  I live with small active children and do great, I live with 2 cats and do great, and in my many interactions with other dogs I have done great as well!  I just stand there and let them smell me until they are done!  I can be playful at times, but to be honest I am not all that energetic.  I've got that laid-back, "cool guy" attitude about me.  So mature.

One day my foster mom had to stay late at work and could not get anyone to come let me out.  She thought for sure when she came home I would have had an "accident" in the house, but guess what?  I didn't!  So, it's safe to say I am 100% potty-trained!  I also know how to sit, lay down, and stay.  I am very food motivated so it will be a breeze teaching me how to do more tricks!

Ok, my one setback...I get a little curious when I am outside.  It is strongly recommended that I go to a home with a fenced yard or tie out in the yard, because I have been known to bolt.  I REALLY love being outside, so I would prefer a fence over a tie-out, if possible (I know, I know...picky, picky).  I was not neutered when I first came to MARS (now am), so it could be that those "roaming tendencies" just are not out of my system, but regardless I do NOT want to go back to the pound!  So, I need to be kept safe and sound from my own curiosities. 

Other than that one, tiny thing I am a wonderful boy who is guaranteed to enhance your family's life!  Fill out an adoption application for me so you can meet me in person, and my big hound ears will stun you more than they do in my pictures!  :-)

Love,
Champ



Please feel free to fill out an Adoption application on our main website, www.midwestanimalrescue.org, by clicking on the Form/Applications link under Website Features.

Thank You!