Clover and Snoopy

Chandler Family
Clover and Snoopy
Date of Birth	c. April/May 2012
Gender	Female (Clover) Male (Snoopy)
Breed	Beagle
Owners	Barbara Chris

Clover and Snoopy (b. circa April/May 2012) are the Chandlers' beagles. Chris and Barb bought them at a puppy mill in Fredricksburg on 13 May 2012. The idea of hoarding dogs was originally Barb's idea, and Chris eventually acquiesced. The CWC community learned of their existence on 1 August 2012, when a link to an entry of them Chris submitted to a local contest was posted on the CWCki Forums. The contest ended on August 12, and Chris didn't win.

According to one of Chris's Facebook posts, the dogs are siblings. Clover has a white mark on her snout, and Snoopy doesn't. Additionally, they each have an animal chew toy - Clover has a duck, Snoopy a skunk. Snoopy has a green collar, and Clover, Chris's dog, naturally has a pink collar. Barb claimed in the Rental House Tour audio that the dogs were part fox, though this is incredibly unlikely -- no authenticated hybrids between domestic dogs and foxes exist.

Snoopy, who officially belongs to Barb, is unimaginatively named after the dog from Peanuts, who was also a beagle.

The origin of Clover's name is unclear. It was initially believed to be derived from Patti-Chan's origin story in Sonichu #6, which featured a four-leaf clover by way of explanation. When Chris first introduced the dogs on Facebook, he posted the cryptic comment, "'Shine, little Clover, Glimmer, Glimmer.' :D." This would imply that Clover's name actually came from Chris mishearing the lyrics to Johnny Mercer's song "The Glow-Worm" (which he probably heard from Bob's collection). The actual lyrics are: "Shine, little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer." However, to confuse the story even more, during his date with Catherine, Chris claimed that Clover was named after the character from the show My Little Pony Tales.

Living conditions

On 6 August 2013, Chris posted on Facebook a picture of dog urine on a newspaper. It's assumed that since they're still using paper, the dogs are not going outside, and most likely not getting exercise. This has angered many pet owners.

“	I have a strong feeling those dogs are obese, covered in fleas, and just sit around on a blanket all day and probably only get pet when Christian happens to look away from his vidya as they walk past him and he remembers "oh yeah, I have dogs" and gives them a quick pat on the rump. And I know for a fact they don't get bathed because the Chandlers can't even be fucked to bathe themselves, let alone their pets. And I'm also willing to bet they get fed the cheapest food the chandlers can buy.	”
A certain user from the CWCki Forums.

Sure enough, in December 2014, a statement released by Catherine (who was invited to the Chandler's Rental House by Chris himself) confirmed that the dogs are not house-trained, are aggressive towards strangers, and, possibly due to a lack of exercise, are severely obese. This was especially apparent in a series of photos released in November 2015. In the Rental House Tour, Barb can be heard attempting to justify her gross neglect of her animals by whining about how she's too old to perform laborious tasks such as opening a door to let the dogs out to relieve themselves. Even if this wasn't a bad excuse for neglect, Chris is perfectly capable of letting them out and walking them, but of course he doesn't.

Catherine also stated that the dogs are so terribly taken care of that they can't even be left at home by themselves without destroying all the furniture. Puppies often chew on things around the house, since they have lots of energy and get bored quickly, and chewing helps them teethe. However, even a subpar dog owner will enforce enough discipline to let the puppy know that they shouldn't do it. Puppies thrive on rules and order, and this, combined with the dog maturing out of childhood, means that the furniture destruction is an ephemeral affair. Chris's dogs, however, are adults, and the fact that they engage in this behaviour suggests that neither Chris nor Barb made any attempt whatsoever to rear them correctly.

Given how Chris has demonstrated the same attitude towards his cats, this isn't at all a surprise. Cats are far more independent from dogs, and don't require much attention or discipline to be happy. Treating dogs like this, however, is an instance of severe neglect, and indeed Catherine seriously considered telling the authorities about the dogs' situation (and later regretted not having done it).

Chris has never once said that he is happy to have the dogs, referring to them on Facebook only as a burden of responsibility. On 29 November 2013, he said that he doesn't love them. In the Rental House Tour, Chris is constantly cooing and babbling over them (while they bay deafeningly at Catherine), but this may have just been to impress Catherine, who claimed to love dogs.

The Chandlers' minivan has a bumper sticker which states "I Sleep With Dogs." The ASPCA haven't been notified.

Gallery

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  "Snoopy has a hat on his tush, and Clover is looking at the camera."

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  Clover in a picture on Facebook

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  Another Facebook picture, with Chris looking extremely fat.

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  Clover again.

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  Clover and Snoopy in a picture on Twitter from 20 June 2013.

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  "One of my pups just peed, and look how it came out. Shaped like a girl."

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  Barb and Snoopy.

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  First in a series of old photos leaked in October 2015.

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  These were presumably taken in 2012.

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  Chris posted this photo on his Manchester High School alumni site page.

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  Both dogs.

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  Clover, based on the collar color.

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  Very obese.

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