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How Murphy Got His Name

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I’m the owner of Carrots ‘N’ Cake as well as a Certified Nutrition Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P). I use macros and functional nutrition to help women find balance within their diets while achieving their body composition goals.

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This dog”¦

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I love him more than anything and, boy, does he make me happy. I honestly can’t imagine my life without him. I also can’t imagine him with any other name than “Murphy.”

When Mal and I took Murphy to the dog park this past weekend, we met another Murphy there (an older Yellow Lab), which got us thinking about his name. We agreed that “Murphy” is the perfect name for our dog. It fits him so well, and no other name would make sense.

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Before we got Murphy, Mal and I almost named him “Barney” because, at the time, we loved the show How I Met Your Mother, and Barney Stinson was our favorite character.

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Well, when we told a few of our friends about our potential pug name, quite a few of them made jokes about Barney, the big, purple dinosaur.

Orginally created in 1969 by Dallas native Sheryl Leach, the big purple dinosaur existed mainly on video tape until Public Broadcasting System began airing the show. Suddenly parents found a new babysitter for their toddlers, and the sing-along creature spawned a merchandizing boom, prompting some criticism of using public television to promote toy sales.<br /><br />
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Uhh, crap. We definitely didn’t want to name our dog after an annoying purple dinosaur, but we didn’t have any other names we liked… until we picked up Murphy from the breeder: Gloria Murphy of Murphy’s Pugs.

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Ok, it wasn’t the most original name, but it fit our little pug puppy so well. He’s definitely a Murphy. And he’s definitely not a Barney.

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The other day, I had a serious craving for a cookie. But the weather has been so hot lately, there was no way I was about to turn on my oven to bake a batch of cookies.

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