Charlie is a Labrador Cross who featured in the ARF calendar I photographed last year. In his photo, he looks very much like a standard Labrador Retriever, but in real life he is quite small.

When I found out that ARF had Charlie and his sister Pheobe in foster care, I thought they would be perfect for our Valentine’s shoot. No-one ever need know that they were brother and sister…they would just look like two puppies in love. We even smothered them in peanut butter so that they would smooch for the camera.

About halfway into the shoot however, I was told something quite disturbing. When Phoebe had come into foster care, she was pregnant with Charlie’s puppies. Certainly was an interesting back story for our Labrador lovebirds.

If you think Charlie is cute, you’re are going to love these Lab Puppies.