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On panel 1 of page 16 Tintin and Haddock arrive at the dynamite that Snowy found only to see that it has been put out by some kind of liquid. There is a heavy implication in what Tintin says that this liquid is Snowy's urine:
"Good old Snowy...He...well, he did his best Captain..."

Do you think he actually urinated on the fuse?

That's what I got from that, yes. I'd forgotten about it but it makes me laugh thinking about it again.

Certainly the most convenient method for Snowy to use.
He could have gone running to Tintin first, but then they probably would have all ended up dead.

Ah, good ol' Snowy. He never fails his master... Even in the funniest ways. XP

Yup he did, just like he did in the 1934 verison of Cigars of the Pharaoh.

:D
I also noticed in another book, "The Broken Ear", on page 17 where Tintin is waiting for the police officer to arrive..Snowy is hiding behind that black structure.. and in the later frame there's liquid there.. :P naughty Snowy :P

I guess even in page 10 there is an indication of it.. when Tintin is at Minstrel's Way.. near the black post.. what say? :D

Well spotted! I'd never noticed that before. Maybe Hergé thought he'd better make this dog-wee gag very subtle so he didn't get complaints from his readers' more censorious parents. (Tintin was, of course, being published in the Catholic children's magazine Le Petit Vingtieme at the time of this story.) No doubt his more sharp-eyed child readers took great delight in spotting this bit of toilet humour.


He looks like he's thinking about it, from the way he's gone round the back of the lamp post. But from the lack of a puddle, it looks like Snowy (or Hergé) thought better of it on that occasion!

Balthazar
Thank you! :D
As a matter of fact, even I noticed the incident in the Broken Ear just yesterday! :D it amazes me that every time I read one of his books, no matter how many times ive read it before, I get to learn something new!!

No, I'd never spotted the incident in the Broken Ear before. But I suspect that these incidents might be the sort of things that are more likely to be spotted by adults than children. For example, as a child, I never spotted the incident in the Shooting Star - at least I don't remember it, and I'm certain that I would have remembered it if I had spotted it. As an adult, it was pretty obvious.

I may be wrong, but I think that adult readers tend to notice these details, whereas children race through the stories, more interested in the excitement of the plot than in the Hergé's subtle gags. At least that's the way it is in my case - though maybe other people are different!

Well, in my case, I bought both these books just recently-within two years back-so I cannot really tell if I would have noticed it or not while reading in my childhood...but yes even I noticed the Broken Ear incident just on my reading last week!! In Shooting Star it's more relevant to the plot line so its more noticeable, given that if Snowy hadn't put out the fuse the ship would have blown up..but in Broken Ear its more of a subtle gag which can be noticed only after we read the book when we know the story well already..that's what happened in my case anyway :D

But yeah I too have begun to notice certain things only now in the books when I read them, things I never noticed before..so there may be a point in what Aristide Filoselle says..