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hello friends I am new to the Gladly household

I am Champ I am a very good boy a very good boy indeed

or that's what they tell me when they are skritching behind my ears I like skritches also I like to hear that I am a good boy

I do not like so much to hear DOWN or OFF so I am trying to remember that couches are for people not for Champ, for people not for Champ

there are a lot of things to remember though

it tires a boy right out, remembering all the things

things I like: belly rubs, ice chips, tug, and digging old walnuts out of the shrubbery to crunch-crunch-crunch them

things I don't like: firecrackers 

also when I can see other dogs having walks I get worried because are they mean dogs or nice dogs? hard to tell

once I lived in a Bad Place and sometimes I still get worried even when I am trying to be a very good boy

Jamie says maybe I am named for Champollion and maybe I am a philologist dog I do not know about philologists maybe they are crunchy?

but Jamie is the one who says "food, Champ" she can call me Champollion if she wants to

I like to rest my left hip on her feet when she is typing and I am sleeping she does not mind no she does not mind

I am only staying for a little while not for a long time just a little while but it is a nice place to stay if you are a very good boy like me

XLXL (L is for lick because O for hug is hard when you are a quadruped),
Champ