Dog On a Roof

I have a dog named Murphie. She is a Fox Terrier and is really quite crazy. The best way I know to describe her is to say that she is probably an ADHD dog that also has autistic tendencies.

There are days that she acts like no one else on the face of the earth exists and then others when she wants to sit in your lap all day. Murphie cannot sit still for very long when she is in her ADHD mode which is most of the time.

Murphie has destroyed our fence, tore up lawn chairs, dug into the neighbors yard, totally made a mess of our store house and climbed onto our roof.

That's right. Murphie continually climbs up on the roof. One day while at work, which is 30 miles from home, I got a phone call from my neighbor. She told me that Murphie was on the house and she didn't know what to do. My neighbor is an 84 year old woman and she was quite concerned.

I drove the 30 miles home and Murphie was still on the roof and she was eating the shingles off of the storehouse. I think there was a rat in the storehouse and this was her solution to getting the rat.

I got Murphie down and over the next few days, I watched Murphie from a side window when I would put her out in the morning. One day I saw her climb up on the roof. We have a large pecan tree that is very close to the storehouse. She wedged her body between the tree and the storehouse and shimmied up onto the roof. The storehouse is just a foot from the house roof so she jumped over to the roof and started running around the roof barking.

My neighbors talk a lot about Murphie and I think they now realize that Murphie is a little different. I thought I had it fixed so that Murphie could not get on the roof but just a few days ago, she got up on the roof again. My son and wife were in the front of the house and my wife told Murphie to jump into the back of my pickup truck which was directly under the roof.

Murphie jumped and broke her back leg in half. She did not even act like she was hurt and just walked around like nothing was wrong. The bottom of her leg was sticking out the opposite way it is supposed to be.

We took her to the vet and they set her leg in a splint. She has to wear it for a week and after 3 days she seems unfazed. The only difference in Murphie today and Murphie before the splint is that she hasn't tried to get on the roof.

What a dog!