Snoopy is a beagle! Snoopy wasn’t drawn at the Snoopy the older I get the earlier gets late shirt beginning to be a beagle intentionally, but he was modeled on one of Charles M. Schulz’s childhood dogs (who wasn’t a beagle!). In fact, it wasn’t until the strip had been running daily for over 10 years that it was revealed that Snoopy was a beagle. Charles Schulz explains where the name Snoopy came from in a 1967 interview, “I used Snoopy because my mother used to think that this would be a good name for a dog, even though at that time we had a dog named Spike.” Charles Schulz adds in a 1971 interview about Snoopy’s origins, “Actually he was named Sniffy at first. But I was walking past a newsstand one day and saw a stack of comic magazines and one was called “Sniffy”, and it was about a little dog,
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