| has gloss | eng: Spike Spike appeared most frequently in the strip. His appearance is similar to that of Snoopy, but he is substantially thinner, has a perpetually sleepy look, and sports a long, droopy mustache and a fedora. He sometimes wears Mickey Mouse shoes. He is called Snoopys older brother during the first story in which he appears. Spike lives alone in the desert near Needles, California, only occasionally interacting with the principal characters in the strip, generally in visiting Snoopy. His friends are mostly inanimate saguaro cacti; as the only saguaros in California are in the Whipple Mountains Wilderness, fifty miles south of Needles, Spike must live somewhere in this wilderness area. In the TV special Snoopys Reunion, Spikes home was a huge hollow saguaro in which he kept books and his violin. |
