Snowy (character) Snowy (character) Snowy ( ) is a fictional character in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Snowy is a white Wire Fox Terrier who is a companion to Tintin, the series' protagonist. Snowy debuted on 10 January 1929 in the first installment of "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets", which was serialised in "Le Petit Vingtième" until May 1930. Snowy is modeled in part on a Fox Terrier at a café that Hergé used to frequent. Milou, Snowy's original French name, was the nickname of Hergé's first girlfriend. In the first eight Tintin adventures,
Australian Terrier Britain to Australia in the early 19th century. The ancestral types of all of these breeds were kept to eradicate mice and rats. The Australian Terrier shares ancestors with the [[Cairn Terrier]], Shorthaired [[Skye Terrier]], and the [[Dandie Dinmont Terrier]]; [[Yorkshire Terrier]]s and [[Irish Terrier]]s were also [[crossbreed|crossed]] into the dog during the breed's development.<ref name="Clark/Brace"></ref> Development of the breed began in Australia about 1820, and the dogs were at first called the Rough Coated Terrier. The breed was officially recognised in 1850, and later renamed as the Australian Terrier in 1892. The Australian Terrier was shown at a dog