{"id":116,"date":"2025-11-11T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:59:56","slug":"snouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Snouting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been a while since my last post due to Junior Staff Member being unavailable to type up my thoughts.  It was suggested that I should apologise for the lack of updates.  Me apologise?  When you&#8217;re this good looking there is no need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would have given him a serious ticking off, but he has been snouting and it really is one of my favourite things, so I can&#8217;t hold that against him.  I do have plenty of things that I do hold against him, just not participating in something I enjoy so much.  It was mentioned that you dear reader may not know what snouting is, in which case you are in for a treat today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you poor humans (I imagine most life-forms reading this are human, if you are not then pretend this sentence doesn&#8217;t exist) don&#8217;t have a snout it is quite difficult for you to participate in snouting, but not impossible.  So, a snout is the part of an animal that sticks out below our eyes and houses our nose and mouth.  Using a snout to charge into things such as a door, to burrow under ground in a hole, or to tunnel into a hedge is snouting.  I love all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sticking my snout under a hedge, getting the smells, the tastes, the sensations and if I&#8217;m really lucky a bit of muffin that someone has dropped&#8230; it is just glorious.  As well as the sheer joy of it, my staff cannot see what I&#8217;m doing when I&#8217;m seriously snouting as most of my body is in the hole\/hedge\/whatever, this means that anything I find I can eat and they will never know.  No fights where they try to take <strong>my<\/strong> snouting trophy for themselves, which they are prone to doing if I find good food in clear sight as if they should get to eat the food that <strong>I<\/strong> found.  I&#8217;m sure Senior Staff Member enjoys eating my finds more than the food she makes herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what Junior Staff Member was snouting out, but it must have been really good.  Initially there was a concrete garage floor and day by day he burrowed through it until there was no floor left.  Every time I saw him he had his head down snouting at the floor.  Now, I have a seriously strong snout, but I&#8217;m not convinced that even my wonderful snout could have done that.  I am disappointed that he wouldn&#8217;t allow me to join in the fun and I&#8217;m left forever wondering what it was he was following the smell of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s a quick overview of snouting and my love of it.  I do urge you to give it a try yourself, even if you don&#8217;t have a proper snout you can stick your head under a hedge, join in the fun and who knows what treasure you may find in there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy snouting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingA.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingA-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingB.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingB.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingB-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After a good day of snouting you will probably feel this way too&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingC.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingC-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happychapi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SnoutingC-768x383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since my last post due to Junior Staff Member being unavailable to type up my thoughts. It was suggested that I should apologise for the lack of updates. Me apologise? When you&#8217;re this good looking there is no need. 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