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Normally Sniff is very much like a sack of hay, lying all day on the sofa letting out grunting sounds from his nostrils, but sometimes he has got energy enough to open his eyes. Then he is murmuring about "youths, who has not enough experience of life to write their memoirs" and after that he goes on nagging about his "HEROIC DEEDS", demanding me to include them, as I´m still sitting with the pen in my mouth.
Well, I have decided to do so - although I´m sure no one will believe him, because those "deeds" grow more fantastic every time he tells about them and they differ more and more from the version our master has told us - but as I wrote about his mother Maidi, I guess I owe the same favour to Sniff.
One of Sniff´s most spectacular deeds was when he saved our master from drowning in a river. According to himself it was a swift and turbulent river. Suddenly the canoe overturned and there were both Sniff and our master whirling around in the ice-cold water. Luckily for our master he had the resolute Sniff by his side, immediately ready to grab his jacket and swim ashore with him.
After that the brave little dog jumped back into the river to fetch the luggage too, so our master could have his dinner and some dry clothes to warm his body.
At last he was fetching the canoe, draining it by turning it upside-down.
(Our master has told us pretty much the same story, although in his version it was summer and hot, the water was not very turbulent and it was HE who saved Sniff.)
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Another one of Sniff´s heroic deeds was on a mountain tour with our master, when they were surprised by a blizzard and the temperature dropped to 40 degrees Celcius below zero.
("A bit cold", according to our master.)
Sniff walked ahead and directed them, so our master and his friends would not get lost in the wilderness.
In that case I´m trusting Sniff better. My own experience tells me how scatterbrained our master is, when he is running alone in the woods.
Such a person as he should never ever be left without a leash.
(Oh, what a thought that strikes me now! Maybe that was the reason for him to join the police force - the benefit of wearing a shoulder belt, which is the same word as leash in swedish.)
The most remarkable deed of them all I have deliberately kept to the last. Sniff was out for a walk with our master when suddenly there was a huge, ugly snake, lying in front of them on the path, hissing and threatening to bite our master´s leg and have him for dinner. But then Sniff was standing between them, saying "voooo" right in the face of the snake. The snake got so frightened it sank its fangs into him, but Sniff was not the one to give up. In spite of the fact that he was severely hurt, he got hold of the coiling tail with his teeth, but the snake was twice as heavy as he, so it easily shook him off and bit our master´s foot instead.
Then Sniff repeated his loudly "VOOOO!"...and that was too hard for the snake to endure, so it decided to slink away and return to its own slimy pit.
Our master was so poisoned he wasn´t able to walk any more, so Sniff had to take him on his back and carry him home to civilization.
As a reward for his unselfishness he was wrongfully thrown into prison, while the snake was considerating whether to bring an action against him for assault. But later it seems to have changed its mind, because there was never any trial.
Of course nothing else was expected!
After all there was a witness. Our master would have told them who really had started the fight.
Although our master is unexpectedly vague on this point. According to him the snake was just an ordinary viper, only Sniff got bitten and it was OUR MASTER who carried him home. And about the prison - it was a crate in the animal hospital, where Sniff had to spend several days of intensive care, feeling extremely poorly.
As usual I am not certain which of them who is lying. Of course it would be more exciting if it was our master, but something tells me this time it is probably Sniff.
That´s why I have created my own theory about it; that Sniff was so depressed that he DELIBERATELY let the snake bite him, but later he felt ashamed of himself och came up with a thrilling story in act to confuse the issue. But one can never be sure, not being there oneself.
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