

Snoopy's doghouse is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Linus chooses to move into the doghouse, although he calls it Joe Cool's dorm, as part of a May 1972 storyline in which Lucy throws him out of their home. In a storyline from September and October 1973, Peppermint Patty moves in to what she thinks is Chuck's guest cottage, because she needs a place to stay while her father is away. Some other characters have stayed in the doghouse as well. Either way the inside is much larger than the outside and contains many objects.Īlthough normally Snoopy is the only one who lives in his doghouse, Woodstock and his friends stay with him, occasionally. Either the entrance leads to an expansive basement with a few other rooms and ample storage space or the inside is a fourth-dimensional tesseract space. The house's most unusual feature is that it has an enormous inside.

In the strip from January 27, 1963, Linus even suggests for Snoopy to sleep inside of it, when Snoopy was cold at night, but everyone thought that was the most ridiculous thing they had ever heard.Īt this point, the side view of the doghouse became standard in the strip, which allowed the imagination of Schulz (and Snoopy) to expand this dwelling beyond the limits of a normal doghouse. After a while of Snoopy sleeping on top of his doghouse, it just seems normal to him. One strip ascribed Snoopy's ability to sleep there to his long floppy ears, which-like the feet of a perching bird – "lock" him to the top so that he does not fall. Thereafter, Snoopy was seldom seen to venture inside the doghouse, except to retrieve something, instead spending the bulk of his time sitting or lying on its gable roof. However, on December 12, 1958, Snoopy slept on top of his doghouse, rather than inside it, for the first time. He would be seen sleeping in the archway. In these earlier days of the strip, Snoopy treated it more like a normal doghouse. It appeared again on November 19, 1951, when Snoopy first got television. Snoopy's doghouse was first shown on September 4, 1951. The Secret of Snoopy's ears revealed in the strip from April 29, 1963. Snoopy first sleeps on top of his doghouse in the strip from December 12, 1958. Snoopy has had television installed in the strip from November 19, 1951. First appearance of Snoopy's doghouse in the strip from September 4, 1951.
