COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Murphy was 8 weeks old when he came to be with Cody Moore.
"He was absolutely crazy as a puppy," Moore said. "He was born without an off switch."
Fast-forward 10 years.
Murphy is calm, courageous and a leader of the Idaho Disaster Dogs team, which responds to emergency incidents such as building collapses or other disasters.
Murphy and Moore have been a search-and-rescue team for the past decade.
Moore, a Coeur d'Alene firefighter and paramedic, outlines the road that took Murphy from that wired puppy to the cool-under-fire yellow Labrador in his first book "Murphy Gets A Job," with illustrations by Tamara Markov.
It offers an up-close look at how the two trained together, shared a home, developed a bond and grew to look out for one another.
To read the full story, visit our news partner the Coeur d'Alene Press.
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