Murphy was a stray in a nearby county (the area of NY you keep seeing on the news with all the snow!). They adopted him out three times, but each time he was returned because the adopters' other dogs refused to accept this giant puppy, and each one attacked him. Being a county run shelter, his next step was to be PTS as unadoptable, but the shelter staff knew what a great pup he is, and did not want to go that route, so they put the word out that they wanted a home with mastiff experience to take him, and a mastiff friend of mine asked me to take him for a while, so here he is!