I Googled Snoopy when I got home. Was this a new thing Knott's made up? Or was this a Schulz thing that was never released to the public????? Or was it in the comic strips all the time???
This is what the results are, I could sleep until I found out.
Over the course of the strip's run, it was revealed that Snoopy had been born and raised at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. His father used to run with hunting dogs, but would secretly run ahead and warn the rabbits. His mother is famous for her tapioca pudding, and in a 1990s Peanuts strip, came over on a WWI-era troopship to visit Snoopy and Spike, who had been ill with the flu. Out of all his siblings, Snoopy's brother Olaf was sold last. Before they were sold, Snoopy and his brothers and sister made a band and one by one each was sold. Snoopy's original owner was a little girl named Lila, who had to return him to Daisy Hill after her family moved to an apartment where dogs were forbidden. In the television special Snoopy's Reunion, Snoopy and his siblings get together at Daisy Hill Puppy Farm for a picnic, but sadly find out that it was demolished for a parking garage.
Shortly after his return to the farm, Snoopy was selected by Charlie Brown's parents as a companion for him. At one point in the series, Charlie Brown said that his parents bought Snoopy for him to cheer him up after another child threw sand in his face while they were playing in a sandbox. In the late 1970s, Snoopy embarked upon a journey to visit Daisy Hill, only to find that the puppy farm had been replaced by a five-story parking garage, causing Snoopy to wail, "You stupid people! You're parking on my memories!"
Snoopy is usually depicted as having seven siblings, five of whom appear at some point in the strip: Andy, Belle, Marbles, Olaf, and Spike. Most often seen is Spike, who lives in the desert (near the real-life locale of Needles, California). Sharing Snoopy's penchant for a fantasy life, he is friends with saguaro cacti. Spike is very thin, wears a fedora and has long whiskers. (Spike was the name of one of Schulz's childhood pet dogs.)
Andy looks like a disheveled version of Snoopy. Olaf, who wears a fur cap, is round in both body and face. Marbles is the smartest in the group. He has spots on his fur, wears shoes, and considers some of Snoopy's behavior very odd. Belle, who looks like Snoopy with long eyelashes, is most notable in that there was a Belle stuffed animal available for many years. Although Snoopy often mentions that he was one of eight puppies, the two other siblings never appeared in the comic strip. According to the animated special Snoopy's Reunion, they are named Molly and Rover. They all play in a country band in that special, with Snoopy on the acoustic guitar.
Many years before his siblings appeared, Snoopy referred to himself as an "only dog" who had no brothers or sisters.
Now that my thoughts are clear on that, I wanted to know about the rest of the story.
Here's what I came up with....
Snoopy's owner is Charlie Brown. Early in the strip, he appeared to be a stray dog whom Charlie Brown and his friends had adopted — or vice versa — but eventually it became clear that he was Charlie Brown's dog. Snoopy has a fairly indifferent relationship with Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown's tormentor Lucy once demanded to know when he would be taking Snoopy to obedience classes; Snoopy wondered what would be the point, since Charlie Brown already did everything that Snoopy wanted. Snoopy almost never remembers his owner's name, usually referring to him as "that round-headed kid". Though rarely conveyed, it is clear that Snoopy does actually love Charlie Brown, or at the very least acknowledges that he is completely dependent on the boy, and, in precious occasions, shows him genuine affection, particularly if they reunite after long partings.
His relationship with the other human characters is no more cordial than with Charlie Brown. Snoopy's deft and droll throwaway lines are an effective foil to Lucy's barbed remarks, making him less put-upon than the besieged Charlie Brown or the slightly hapless Linus. He often torments Linus by grabbing one end of the blanket, twirling Linus around and letting him go flying. On March 2, 1958, he declared himself the first dog to launch a human being. Other times Snoopy would zoom by Linus and wrest the blanket away. When Linus began to wear eyeglasses, Snoopy would abscond with them also. ("With a little practice, I bet I could get the shoes, too.")
Snoopy's best friend and confidante is the undersized yellow bird Woodstock, who only "speaks" in apostrophe marks.
His arch-enemy (other than the Red Baron) is the unseen, vicious cat next door, aptly named "World War II". During one series of daily strips, Snoopy antagonized the cat each day, and the cat's paw made one giant slash move that, day by day, decimated Snoopy's freshly-rebuilt doghouse to a greater extent than the day before. The cat also has impressive control of the slashing, as demonstrated when Snoopy insulted him about his knowledge of musical instruments saying "You wouldn't know a violin from a bass drum. At that jibe, World War II instantly carved a hole on the dog house that was an exact outline of a Stradivarius violin. In fact Snoopy reviled all cats generally, once remarking that they were "the crab grass on the lawn of life" and taking umbrage at the expression "cats and dogs", insisting that the proper expression was always "dogs and cats". Before "World War II" there was Frieda's cat "Faron" who appeared in a few strips with Snoopy. One time to Snoopy's embarrassment he found himself "babysitting" "Faron". The cat was named for Faron Young. Schulz stopped drawing the "boneless cat" that would droop over Frieda's arms, as he said, because he could not properly draw a cat.
For a while in 1977, Snoopy was engaged to an unseen female dog he met while on guard duty at Peppermint Patty's house. However, she ran off with his best man and brother Spike before the wedding had started, then eventually leaving Spike and running off with a coyote. (This story was later adapted as the animated special Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown, albeit his bride-to-be ran off with a golden retriever in the special.)
He had also been engaged to another unseen dog, a "cute little girl-beagle", who Snoopy met at an ice skating rink. In this case, Snoopy nearly got married, and even said he would hire his wife a French Poodle maid, but the girl beagle's father forbade it, saying he could never allow his daughter to marry an obedience school dropout. Snoopy was heartbroken, and tried to forget his love by eating, but for the first time, food failed him. He later saw her out surfing on the beach. Trying to impress her, he wiped out while trying to surf. Charlie Brown later told him that the last he saw her, she was running with a Golden Retriever on the beach. [7]
And, in 1971, while getting caught in the middle of a riot at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm while making a patriotic speech, Snoopy met another unseen female dog "with soft paws", but, again, heartbreak was inevitable for Snoopy, as Charlie Brown broke the news to him that a love letter he'd sent her never got to her; she'd been sold away and therefore was no longer at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. Snoopy was devastated: "What do you do when the girl you love more than anything else is taken away from you and you know you're never going to see her again for as long as you live?? What do you do??" Snoopy immediately answers himself: "Back to eating!"
So, If your ever wondering about Snoopy, Don't ask any of the people that work at Knott's. They don't know Shit. Which were my ending thoughts when leaving Knott's Berry Farm. I did how ever leave with a gem rock tree and a Spike stuff animal.
I Like being on Vacation.
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