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Likes: Other dogs, playing, snuggling and pig ears!
Pet-Peeves: Blowing in his face and baths
Favorite Toy: I love my two giant loofah dogs!
Favorite Food: I'm on Natures Variety Pre-Made raw food right now and I love it!
Favorite Walk: Long,long, long, walks to the park or dog park.
Best Tricks: Murph knows lots. Playdead, bang your dead, Rollover, Shake Highfive, other paw, both paws, prey, leave it and basic commands
Arrival Story: Well our family first looking to do adopt so we visited two different shelters. We met a Min-Pin named T-bone and at the other shelter we met a beagle named Rocky. We were waiting for a call to see who could go home first and the shelter called about Rocky, saying he was ready to come home. We called the landlord just incase he would not be ok with it(The people before us had dogs before so we thought there would be no problem). Well he ended up saying he didn't want dogs in the house since they smelled(Pathetic thing is he has 2 cats). Two years later my aunt had called me and told me that her friend had a puppy they couldn't keep anymore (I knew the owner from their previous Shih-Tzu Bailey), but they got Murphy a few months after Bailey was hit by a car (R.I.P. Bailey). So we decided to sneak in Murphy because we just couldn't get by without a dog, its been our dream for awhile. Well 4 years later and we still have Murphy, the landlord knows Murphy is our dog and hasn't really said anything to us. He does pet Smurph every time he sees him though so I guess Murphy's cuteness worked on him. I can't imagine life without Smurph.
Bio: Hi, my name is Murphy and I am a 5 year old pure bred Shih-Tzu! My birthday is December 10th 2003! I am the most loving little fellow you will ever meet, I do have a begging problem though teehee! I love to meet new friends and I love to play!
August 15th was the day Murphy came into my life, I'll never forget it!
Forums Motto: 6 on December 10th! Dogster Local Spots I've Marked: Mondaug Bark Park at Mondauk Manor, Pabby's Pet Pantry, County Line Veterinary Hospital, Horsham Dog Park The Last Forum I Posted In: Please check out this stroll! JOBANTDII
OMD I'm so excited, I actually made it as a final in the worlds coolest contest. I would be so grateful if you pups could vote for me as best in show down by the car dog category!
August 15th 5 years ago, mom's life changed forever. Why you may ask? Because that's the day I came into mom's life as an 8 and a half month old little hyper bouncy puppy. I was mom's first ever dog and I changed mom's whole outlook on life!
Most of you know mom deals with lots of anxiety and depression on a daily basis what you may not know is a couple of months before mom got me she was in the hospital for suicide, she saw no point in continuing on with life and saw no meaning what so ever. She was selfish but she really didn't see that many cared for her because she was so busy looking at all that was wrong. Mom wanted out of life and she wanted out of life that very second, she was on suicide watch for a couple of months after she got sent home and she dropped out of school for awhile. She started losing interest in everything around her and she became agoraphobic which is fear of leaving the house. Mom really was at the end of the road and wanted to do nothing but sleep through life.
I came into mom's life right when she needed me most, I was the most perfect little dog mom could ask for. I never chewed on anything, never got into trouble, always asked to go out to potty, I was just perfect in every way to mom. My magical powers as mom calls them, started kicking in very soon after mom got me. She saw a point to wake up every morning and take me for a long walk at 6 am, she saw a point in dealing with every day life challenges. She started going out a lot more and started meeting new people with me right by her side. She could actually socialize again with me being there! Best of all, mom went back to school and started dealing with a lot of things she could never deal with before. Her depression became a lot less and she started finding herself happy to wake up to me being right there with a smile on my face and waiting for my morning walk. She saw reasons to stay alive.. she realized I needed her now more then anyone has ever needed her. I'm right by mom's side every second shes home, and if shes not home I won't even budge from her bed where I'm sitting and waiting for her. Other members of the family come in but I'll just wag my tail a little bit and wait for mom, if shes not there I will continue to wait for her no matter how long it takes her to come home. Mom gets out of the house every day now to walk me, she still has anxiety and depression but she's dealing with it because she knows I need her and mom can't imagine not being here for me. I do everything in my power to make her smile every day, whether its snuggling with her, grabbing a toy and tossing it in the air on my back, doing silly little tricks and things that mom doesn't ask me to do, or whether its just licking moms tears away.
I taught mom to enjoy all the little things in life because you have to enjoy everything life has to offer. Mom still has a lot of rough days but with me by her side, she deals with them and doesn't want to think suicide is the way out of things. August 15th... the day mom feels god sent her a very best friend that can never hurt her. August 15th.. the day mom's life changed forever.
I love mom and she loves me, treasure every second of every day because life can only be here for so long and we need to enjoy it! Life has its ups and downs but who cares? We still have great times with us doggies being here for our pawrents every step of the way.
I just wanted to take the time to thank each and every one of you pups for making my week as DOTW so much fun! Thank you so much for all my special gifts, rosettes, stars, pawmails and pup pal requests! This week wouldn't have been amazing without any of you, I was honored to be chosen! Thank you pups, thank you so so so so MUCH!!!
Thank you HQ for choosing me as DOTW as well!
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