Photo of Murphy is shown on the announcement of "Google Translate for Google+ Chrome Extension", Aug 2011

Forgot to blog about another thing about Murphy. This happened last year - Aug 2011. My team is prepare for launching "Google Translate for Google+ Chrome Extension"that time and Josh Estelle asked me to create a Google+ post with Chinese and ask some of my friend to comment on that post with different languages. Then we use that post as an example to show case the "Google Translate for Google+ Chrome Extension". I would like to show case my lovely Murphy in that announcement so I post a Chinese Google+ post w/ Murphy's photo in it. And later Josh Estelle use the screenshot of that post in his announcement . The same set of photo is also used by the product screenshot at Chrome Web Store and Chrome plugin.  Many industry news writer copy the photo from that post and spread Murphy's photo around the Internet. For example, this blog, this blog,  "5 Must See Google+ Chrome Extensions", "40 Essential Google Chrome Famed Apps", "Top 3 Chrome Extension for  Google+", "Google Translate for Google+があれば、Google+上の会話は、翻訳可能", "多言語対応のGoogle＋向けGoogle翻訳", "官方 Chrome 扩展 Google Translate for Google+" and many more....

Murphy w/ very long Hair

Murphy's recent Hair Cut

We Lost Murphy and Found Murphy next day

Murphy sneaked out our front gate on afternoon Sept 28, 2012. I noticed the front gate is opened when I came home around 5:30pm. Around 6:40pm, before we left for Chinese school, we notice Murphy is not at home. Murphy is usually very quite at home and that day all of us are very busy so we didn't notice he was gone till that time. I drove the kids to Chinese school and my wife went to the close by Challenge school yard to find him. She cannot find Murphy. She talked to several other dog owners who know Murphy well and none of them saw Murphy. We guess Murphy must sneaked out pretty early, before the school is dismissed and school probably called the animal control to take him out. My wife cried and kept searching for Murphy.

Murphy's photo found on Humane Society web site as 'stray animal'

Eventually we found a photo on http://hssv.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=lost_stray which looks like Murphy. We contacted Humane Society Silicon Valley but they are already closed that time. After double check with my children, we are pretty confident that photo is Murphy. We went to the Humane Society the next morning and found Murphy there. It cost me $50 for that. They told me since that day the Animal Control in Sunnyvale is out of duty, Murphy was 'arrested' by Sunnyvale police and was transported to the Humane Society by riding a police car (so Murphy now is the third members in my family ever get a free ride on police car). Somehow after they scan for the Microchip they cannot find any signal. We don't know what is happen but the Microchip cannot be found. We pay additional ~49 USD for his new Microchip. (see photo). His new chip is 985-170-001-487-503 and the phone number for the "Home Again" is 1-888-466-3242.  I also donate some more money for the Humane Society. The staff in the Humane Society is super nice.