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Catching Murphy Paperback – February 14, 2019
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For more than a year, over two brutal Northeast winters, the whole of Vermont was captivated by the hunt for a runaway golden retriever named Murphy. He was more than a missing dog—he was a target for capture, and journalistic obsession.
Murphy’s disappearance would unite the dog’s increasingly anxious owners with an impassioned reporter—Wilson Ring, the state’s correspondent for The Associated Press—and an online community of animal lovers. As Murphy kept running, the quest to bring him home, safe and sound, seemed more and more impossible. The search itself takes on an aspect of devotion, as the searchers display genuine resilience and ingenuity—human qualities of an increasingly rare breed.
This paperback edition includes the following bonus materials: New Foreword, Afterword, A "Catching Murphy" reunion, Photo Gallery and more!
- Print length108 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 14, 2019
- Dimensions5 x 0.25 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100999035983
- ISBN-13978-0999035986
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- Publisher : The Associated Press (February 14, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 108 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0999035983
- ISBN-13 : 978-0999035986
- Item Weight : 4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.25 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,039,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #911 in Animal & Pet Care Essays
- #5,907 in Dog Care
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Wilson Ring is the Vermont correspondent of The AP. A 35-year veteran reporter, including 25 years at The Associated Press in Montpelier, VT, he served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador from 1979-1981. For five years in the 1980s he worked as a free-lance reporter in Central America, and, as a freelance reporter for Newsday in Honduras, he was a finalist, along with the paper’s staff, for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories about a Bronx social club fire that killed 87 Hondurans. In 2012, he received the Associated Press Media Editor (APME) Charles Rowe award, as part of the Montpelier staff, for reporting on the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene. He still lives in Waterbury, not far from where Murphy was safely caught and returned to his family.
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This true story, known to a Vermonters, tells how a whole community searched for and tried to catch wandering dog. PTSD for a dog? Abusive owner? Nothing seems to make sense.
Wilson Ring's storytelling creates a vigil of determination and stubbornness in an unexpected adventure of an otherwise normal dog refusing all human attempts to approach, engage with, or bring Murphy home. Even through two deep frost winters, Murphy eludes all efforts to save him from his lonely mountain escape.
Although the story draws the reader in, the author can only describe what the dog did---but now why. The heroic efforts of so many are well told with al their well-meaning effort shown, but there remains the larger mystery motivating Murphy's seemingly intentional abandonment of his home and owners.
This is the fifth of six true stories from the short single collection, "Missing," created for short escape reads of something unknown and hence missing. Although this story is about a missing dog, the larger part "missing" remains why and why so long?
I enjoyed the storytelling but not the flat ending, but perhaps that's life more often than we'd like.
The Audible narration added a nice touch a some added emotion.
