"Oh, yeah, I know," Murphy said with a dismissive wave of his hand. "But it's fun worrying the occasional newbie with the sight of a very, very large dog curling up by the lawn furniture. I just wanted to know because he doesn't usually spend six hours there. He's napped in some really weird places in the store, by the way."
Half the staff still got upset by it, but Murphy pretty much gave no fucks as long as Mouse moved along when they needed him to -- which he did.
Even if sometimes that moving along was just relocating from one department to another.