Snuffles (character)

Snuffles is an anthropomorphic cartoon dog appearing in animated television shorts produced by Hanna-Barbera beginning in 1959 on The Quick Draw McGraw Show. Daws Butler provided his voice.

A drawing of Snuffles asking for a treat.

Character description

Snuffles is a bloodhound used by Quick Draw McGraw to ferret out bad guys in the old West but needed to be bribed with a dog biscuit before performing his task. Upon chomping on one, he would hug himself in ecstasy, jump into the air and float back down, sighing. Occasionally, Snuffles would demand more than one biscuit, and was willing to accept them from bad guys as well. In several cases when Quick Draw did not have a dog biscuit to offer due to being out of them or if he tried to give Snuffles the reward cash for capturing an outlaw, Snuffles would either shake his head and say "Uh-uh" or grunt to himself and mumble "Darn cheapskate!" as well as sometimes throwing the reward money back in Quick Draw's face.

Joseph Barbera once said that Snuffles was added to cartoons at the request of the sponsor, Kellogg's Cereals.^[1]

Appearances

Snuffles appeared in seven Quick Draw McGraw cartoons and one Snagglepuss cartoon:^[2] He also made an appearance on the Johnny Bravo episode "Double Vision".

Airdate	Cartoon	Segment Of
November 28, 1959	Bow-Wow Bandit	Quick Draw McGraw
December 19, 1959	Cattle Battle Rattled	Quick Draw McGraw
February 6, 1960	Bronco Bustin' Boobs	Quick Draw McGraw
October 8, 1960	Ali-Baba Looey	Quick Draw McGraw
November 12, 1960	Scooter Rabbit	Quick Draw McGraw
September 22, 1961	Dynamite Fright	Quick Draw McGraw
October 13, 1961	Mine Your Manners	Quick Draw McGraw
December 2, 1961	Tail Wag Snag	Snagglepuss

See also

• List of Hanna-Barbera characters