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Marlie
Legacy Name: Marlie

The Golden Ruffie
Owner: Santa

Age: 13 years, 4 months, 2 weeks

Born: December 29th, 2010

Adopted: 13 years, 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: December 29th, 2010

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Statistics

• Level: 1
   
• Strength: 10
   
• Defense: 10
   
• Speed: 10
   
• Health: 10
   
• HP: 10/10
   
• Intelligence: 0
   
• Books Read: 0
• Food Eaten: 0
• Job: Unemployed

Marlie Truman Houdini Ichabod Einstein

Once upon a time there was an evil dog breeder. He was only interested in breeding for money, so when he found out that his current prize winning golden retriever was sterile, he took her out behind the vet building, pulled out a gun, and got ready to shoot her.

A man passing by saw what was about to happen and he begged the man not to shoot the dog. There was much yelling and fighting, and a small crowd of people started to gather around the evil breeder and his dog. Someone called the police, and as the sirens started to come nearer, the breeder decided to flee. He kicked the golden retriever over to the man and sped off.

The man already had a male golden retriever, so he decided he would keep the female too. Since the dog was sterile, he had nothing to worry about... so he thought.

Fast forward a few months later and you have the girl golden retriever giving birth to 12 puppies. This was problematic as the man could not keep 12 puppies. He lived in a rented home and his landlord threaten to kick him out if he could not get rid of the dogs within a week.

The puppies were very young and since there weren't any no-kill shelters in the area, the man desperately tried to find good homes for the 12 puppies. That's where I come in.

There were two puppies that stood out right away. The first was a larger, healthy looking dog, and the second was the smaller, frail, runt of the litter.

The man begged me to take the runt, saying that no one else would even give her the time of day. He was worried she wouldn't survive without the proper care. I agreed to care for the puppy and picked up my new dog. She proceeded to piss all over me. It was love at first sight, kinda.

Things didn't get much better from that point on. My new dog, who I named Marlie Truman Houdini Ichabod Einstein, or simply "Marlie" for short, wasn't the sharpest tool in the box. She's painfully shy and scared of nearly everything, including the wind. She's also not very smart. For the first year of her life, she had to be tricked into eating and regularly got her head stuck in things. She has been diagnosed with social anxiety and separation anxiety, which explains why she's constantly trying to follow me in the shower.



The vet also suspects she might have Pica due to the fact that Marlie is always trying to consume rocks. After nearly dying from this, all rocks have now been removed and banned from the yard.

Marlie is a very sweet and loving dog. She wants so desperately to please you, even though she's not always smart enough to figure out how. The idea of her being, "less than average", has been thrown out there, partly due to what the vet suspects as an "accidental poisoning" before I got her. But despite all that, she's still pretty cool and I wouldn't change her for anything.

Marlie loves water, swimming, digging, mud, balls, socks, dirt clumps and Kongs. She also likes playing with other animals, as long as they aren't dogs, as she's scared of dogs. She once befriended an armadillo and enjoys playing with frogs. She is also obsessed with tennis balls and won't sleep at night unless she has one. This has led to many late night trips to the store after hours of her crying because she lost her ball.

She is also obsessed with lick random objects, whether it be walls, floors, beds, blankets, cans, trees, dirt, and boxes. She must lick an object for approximately an hour before she'll fall asleep, sorta the same way a child must suck their thumb to sleep. She also regularly "sleep-licks," which is similar to sleep walking, only with... licking.

Due to her "less than intelligent nature," Marlie has gotten herself into a decent amount of trouble over the years. This includes consuming several rocks, routinely getting her head stuck in things, being sprayed by a skunk, being bullied by a mouse, chewing a hole through a wheelbarrow, getting her head stuck in said wheelbarrow, and running head first into walls repeatedly for no apparent reason.



The vet stresses that if I am patient with her, she will make progress overtime. Indeed, she kinda has. She's three years old now and sorta almost eats regularly.

Her fears include the wind, darkness, fish, flies, fly swatters, chairs, large sticks, cats, and miniature poodles.

She once ate a rake, dug up a fossilized baseball, escaped from the yard, was missing for several hours, then came back covered in mardi gras beads. She also enjoys chasing bowling balls, befriending ducks, playing with her Kong, and going for long walks on the beach.

Marlie has recently become a 2012 calendar model for the charity Meals on Wheels. The organization will be using money raised from the calendar sales to help feed both humans and their pets who would otherwise go without.

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