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Murphy reminds me of my mothers dog, who is also a doodle. She's had about a dozen doodles since the 1980s. I wouldn't characterize them as small dogs, not like Poms or terriers are 'small'. My mother's dog is on the thin-ish side and weighs 34.8 lbs (I asked and she was precise. lol). Also note that her ~35 doodle was the smallest she's had. They can weigh 40-75 lbs. unless they are mini's, which Murphy isn't.Murphy looks like a small yappy dog.
Any sound that would be unusual (even in a college party house), he would probably bark at.
In the middle of the night when everything eventually gets quiet, to hear movements, wimpers and rough housing at 4am, I would suspect he would bark.

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As for being yappy... to me only small dogs yap. But my mother's doodles do bark their heads off. LOUDLY, and it's a deep bark, not high-pitched which is what I think of (but could be wrong) when it comes to a 'yappy' dog.
As soon as I lightly knock on the front door for a visit I can hear their claws scrabbling on the floor as they race around sounding the alarm. You know, in case my mother didn't hear the knock at the door. *chuckle*
Dogs have a very keen sense of smell as everyone knows. I can't imagine that Murphy didn't smell BK, as I believe he was likely perspiring from what he was about to do, or at least throwing off some sort of bad vibe scent that dogs can smell (IMO). Then I'd think Murphy would have smelled blood, and likely heard some sounds from his mom that alerted him that something was not right, which likely got him agitated and racing around his room (or was he caged?).
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