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Likes: His mama!, car rides!!, food, walks!!, playing with his neighbor/ best friend shadow, his brother Josh, Love, and Naps,
Pet-Peeves: LUKE, the vacume! (his worst nightmare), crowds, strange men, lowd noises, baths, people yelling,
Favorite Toy: His green Loofa dog "Bobo", he is getting to like to play with stuffed animals but only a couple, and He LOVES to chew bones!!
Favorite Food: pasta, turkey, peanut butter!!, and alot of things but he is not a big fan of veggies!
Favorite Walk: Around the Block,
Best Tricks: sit pretty, hurt paw, Sit, Down, Stay,
Arrival Story: After my Beloved Dog Nelson Passed Away in the summer of 2002....it was just me my siblings, some birds and my cats. I was only in 2nd grade when Nelson Passed away. I was a HUGE animal lover and still am my life is devoted to animals.......they are my LIFE! Well i had been bugging for a dog since i can rember! Every christmas i wished i would wake up and a little puppy would be waiting for me under the x-mas tree!
But i had 3 other siblings and my family lived in a rented house that was very small. But in October of 2002 (I think) my parents signed the papers for a new bigger house, we finnally got the house we had wanted! We moved into our new house In December. On a nice culd-e-sac with lots a kids and a HUGE backyard! My dad and mom are landscapers so the made the back yard look great my dad even put in a medium sized pond!
Well About a year later in December i was still dogless.
But me my twin brother Carter, & my mother went to the half empty Mission Mall to get some x-mas shopping done.
Like we usually did before we left we stopped by a place in the small mall, called -Pet Connection- wich is a tiny tiny animal shelter in the mall. (around late 2006 early 07:The mission Mall is no more and Pet Connection moved into a bigger fasiclity not far)We always like looking at the cats & dogs.
So we went in and looked at all the cats in the front and in the tiny back room were the dogs.My mom got her eye caught by a Lasha mix dog with a big red harness and a hair cut that was so thin it made him look bald.I soon looked to see what the fuss was about and crouched by the cage with my mom.We peered at the name tag and it red: "Herby" My mom & me were in love.Then my mom remebered somthing.My mother's very dear friend Carol had just lost her lasha Jasckson who was her beloved fur babie....jack died suddenly at a young age of cancer. She was crushed. My mother thought of carol when she saw Herb so she called her up and told her about herb. But after 5 minutes of looking at this bald little man my mother called carol up once more and told Carol that she couldn't have Herb! LOL!
My mother then called my father who was cooking a pot rost, she told him to bring my 2 younger siblings down there and himself because we were in love. After finally being talked into it my dad pilled into the car with the kids.While waiting for the rest of my family we found out "Herb" had been left in some ones backyard, he also had a "wife" and 2 "kids" (so to speek)
his family was moving and didn't want to deal with them any more. (they hardly took care of him any way) Herb was a HUGE MAT! that is why when we first saw him he was well a bald man! He was also very skinny.After talking and looking at him my family left.About a few days later me, my mother, & my siblings went to a vet clinic to pick up our new fur child! (who had just been neutered) Herby moved in about a 3 to 2weeks before x-mas. It was almost like i ha laways dreamed it.....i got a cute little dog for x-mas. but this was no dream it was better!
About a few more weeks went by and we were thinking about changing Herbs name. When we were watching TV and herd the call of his true name for the first time.......MURPHY!
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We signed the adoption papers on December,9th,2003.
Since that day he became our little man and we do not know his brithday we just call that & celebrate that as his b-day.
Bio: He is a big amam's boy, ever since we adoted him he follows me everywere gives me kisses he just adores me and i adore him right back.
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When we first adopted him he had some agression issues especially to strange men and some children. But after we got Josh (who loves everyone) he began to figure out that we wouldn't let anyone else hurt him, and that he could get lovin from other people. And watching the dog whisper help to. He still has some issues but he is much better!
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Murphy is such a funny/ cute dog! He doesn't run he HOPS! He is so funny! And if you have a food or treat he wants he will sit on his flat butt and sit up and look very cute! He can just there like that for about 5 minnutes before he finnaly falls over or gives up.
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Today three of mom's cousins came over to stay for about three days. Which doesn't bother me, I love Lucas, Parker & Emma. I greeted them all with happy wags and loving kisses but then he walked through the door.....
That goofy smile on his face, his long clumsy & wigginling body and that annoying long tail smacking me in the face every five seconds. Baxter. He gets to stay with us for the weekend also, yeah. Not. I am not nor will I ever be a fan of that 1 year old nuisance. I have known him since his parents & human siblings got him almost a year ago when he was I think a month old and mom always thought he would grow on me. Hah! She should have known, I am her "grumpy old man" after all. Even though she has tried so very hard to socialize me I still don't like a lot of other dogs. Though I have gotten better with adults but still loath puppies (which is odd because I was a father of two when I came to the shelter!).
Anywho I wasn't very happy with mom because it has just been a few days since Lacey (aka "the pug") went home after spending last weekend with us when her fam. went out of town. She is of course a puppy also. I have been really good about putting up with the "babies" but they have been pushing it majorly. Both Baxter & Lacey have taken a liking to my chew bones. MY beloved chews! MINE! And mom tried to give Baxter his own chew but no he wanted my favorite one (at the moment). Of course, that little booger.
And today our neighbor & good friend Marylynn came over, but with a suprise. A little 12week old fluff-ball of a puppy named Henry. Mom ran & greeted Mary and scooped up the red and white lasha-poo who licked her nose with a thousand puppy breathe kisses. Mom knew that the puppy was Mary's "grandpuppy" (her son Jared & new daughter in law's pup) because they had gone into the shelter mom volunteers at looking for a baby a few times. They ended up getting him from a petstore (which mom wasn't very happy with, but didn't say anything) 2 weeks ago. Mom & the Lori said that is probably what I looked like as a puppy (though since I am part basset I was probably longer and had a bigger head and feet). Mary & thelori talked for a bit while mum showed Henry to us pups I could care less of the little thing, Josh kept trying to be all "I am the alpha bow down to me" and Baxter was kinda scared of the moving squeaky toy that kept trying to play with him. She then showed Henry to the human boys, and after that brought him up the another one of our neighbors (owners of Lacey) to show the human girls & see what the pug would think. Of course the two pup fell in love and played like crazy. Then mom brought Henry back down and he actually tried to play with moi! Crazy wipper snapper.
Well I have to go, it has been a long day of putting up with puppies.
Wuff ya!
-Murph Man
Murphy: It had been a little bit since mom's first dog Nelson passed on and she had really been wanting another pup but they had just moved into a new house and they where very busy. Then on the first week of December five years ago she was doing some early Christmas shopping at a local mall with her mom & brother .There used to be a small shelter (they have since moved) in the mall and mom went in like always & looked around. Then she spotted a skinny, almost bald, long shaped dog shaking in the back of a pen. She knelt down to my cage and called me over. Once she saw my stunning brown eyes that was it! I had my forever home. I was given to the shelter after my old owners decided that they didn't want to bring me with them when they moved. I was brought in with my "wife" and two "children" I had been there for a bit but my family got adopted very fast. My old owners took very poor care of me and my hair had been terribly matted where they had to shave me down almost all the way and I was terribly underweight. I was also not treated right in my old home and had some fear aggression issues that mom has since worked with me on and I no longer have that issue.
RB: How did you get your forever name?
Murphy: My name was formally Herby but my mom heard the name Murphy on a pet tv show and loved it. She called me the name and I came hopping. I was her Murph-Man from that day on!
RB: You live in Kansas. Most of us know about Dorothy and her dog. What is it like there?
Murphy: BOL. Well a lot of people say it is boring but mom simply loves it here it is the only home she has ever known. The weather is great (most the time) and we experience every type here. It is just an amazing place to live and a perfect place for us dogs (:
RB: You are a Lhasa/poodle mix. Is that a rare?
Murphy: Well actually I am bassa-lasha-poo (basst +lasha apso +poodle) And mom says I am pretty rare but I think I am just an average little mutt who likes long hops around the yard and eating noodles all night. Hehe.
RB: You live with Josh. How is it to share your house with other pups?
Murphy: It is great! He is my best buddy and we do everything together! He also helped me trust new people and come over my aggression.
RB: What is your favorite activity?
Murphy: Being with mommy and playing with my brother! Oh and going for walks & car rides!
RB: Tell us about a special incident in your life.
Murphy: Other then the day I came to my forever home It was probably when I met my brother Josh. At the time I only got along with two other dogs and one was bigger then me & the other was a female. Then about 2 months after coming home mom’s grandpa brought by his dog (who was a year old also and very social with everybody) Josh who he had raised from a puppy. Josh was very friendly like normal but I didn’t care, I was my grumpy unsocial self with him. But he was just so happy & loving and after 20 minutes we where playing like mom had never seen me play before! The six months after mom adopting me her grandpa moved into an apartment & Joshy came to live with us! From that day on my behavior did a three-sixty. I started to learn to not e afraid of new people because Josh trusted everybody and even though I still don’t like a lot of other dogs Josh taught me to act a little better around them and to put up with them. After adopting Josh into the home my aggression almost completely vanished and she could tell how much happier I was and now five years later I am a social and goofy little pup and life is gooooooooooooood!!
RB: Anything else you would like to add for our readers?
Murphy: Yes! Thank you to all my sweet plus fun pals you guys rock! And please remeber to spay/nueter and adopt from your local shelter. Oh and one last thing: "Raja Babu: Forever & always in our hearts" love you man!
Mom & and the grrls are of leaving in a hour even though I have knocked down all of her clothes and have slept in her suitcase they are stillleaving me......
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