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“Oh my god, you wouldn’t believe how many pets I had,” Macken Murphy (CAS’20) says with a cackle.
He lists a family menagerie that over time included four or five hamsters, frogs, guinea pigs, four dogs, several birds, lots of fish, rabbits, a couple of rats, and “we may have had a turtle.”
“I was obsessed with animals,” he says. “I wore a T-shirt that said, ‘Hamster Man,’ I had animal trading cards, I watched nature documentaries all the time.”
No surprise that a few years later, during his sophomore year at Boston University, Murphy, a vegan, launched