Murphy originally came to Kiesha Crawmer, imported from Canada thanks to Penny Wilmot and Catherine O'Brien.  Kiesha leased our girl Daisy to breed to Murphy and ever since we have been involved in Murphy's life!  We often took him to race meets and lure coursing trials and we helped finished some of his titles, including his ORC and FC titles.  While Murphy lived with Kiesha he produced 2 beautiful litters and then 3 puppies for us... so Murphy has been a big part of our lives and now he has retired here at Shannon Down.  He might get out occasionally and strut his stuff on the race track but for the most part he is just a quiet couch potato.  As a younger fella, Murphy distinguished himself in extremely tough competition at the WRA/NOTRA Nationals in 2003.  He placed 10th at the NOTRA National earning 1/4 ORC point and then placed 26th at the WRA National the following day.  He is over half way to his WRCh, pointed towards his RCh and LCM pointed - but now that he is a couch potato, we won't be pursuing those titles, but it's nice to know he's pointed towards them!  Murphy is the resident 'old grumpy geezer'.  He's can be incredibly sweet but prefers to keep to himself for the most part, except when he wants his morning butt rub after breakfast.  If you don't do it, he will lift your hand up and make you do it!