<Tr> <Th> Family </Th> <Td> Mom, Grandpa </Td> </Tr> <P> Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts . </P> <P> In the early 1960s, Snoopy began befriending birds when they started using his doghouse for various occasions: a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, a community hall, or a place to play cards . None of these birds were ever given names, although they did, on occasion (e.g., July 10, 1962), use speech balloons, lettered in what would become the classic' chicken scratch marks' of Woodstock's utterances . What set Woodstock apart from all these earlier birds was the fact that he attached himself to Snoopy and assumed the role of Snoopy's sidekick and assistant . There had been no recurring relationships between Snoopy and the earlier birds who visited the yard of the Browns, and Snoopy was as often as not more hostile than friendly toward those birds . </P> <P> However, in the Peanuts daily comic strip on the March 3, 1966, a mother bird flew in while Snoopy was lying on top of his dog house . She chose Snoopy's stomach as a good place to make her nest, and Snoopy says "Why does this always happen to me?" She then lays two eggs and flies away, leaving Snoopy alone with the nest . Two babies hatch, and one of them becomes Woodstock . One year later, Woodstock arrives on Snoopy in the April 4, 1967 comic . Charles Schulz began to establish character traits for Snoopy's new friend by revealing that he could talk (more accurately that he could complain, in the form of repetitive sounds in word form--"gripe, gripe, gripe, gripe", "complain, complain, ..."), that, unlike normal birds, he didn't like to fly south every winter, and that his flying skills were not quite up to snuff . By the end of this four - strip sequence, Snoopy, in character as the World War I Flying Ace, learns that the bird is his new mechanic, Woodstock's first supporting role . </P>

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