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Other days, the project manager will play with her pup at home or throw a few treats in a snuffle mat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

They invited a winsome six-month-old piglet named Wilma to snuffle around in the mini-meadow, which she did with tremendous focus and energy, transfixing her audience.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

We fed Typo from a snuffle mat, which encourages him to root around with his nose for food.

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2022

They snuffle around in the gloom, hunting for some snacks after their sleep.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

I glanced at Oso, who side-eyed me suspiciously from his dog bed and then put his head back down with a snuffle.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Hedgehogs may be communicating with more than just snuffles, grunts and snorts, according to scientists who have discovered the animal's hearing range.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

The sound design also helps bring the series’ creatures to life, though roars, grunts, snuffles, and subtler noises like heavy footsteps, or the rustling of raptors rushing through a field of wheat.

From The Verge ● Oct. 7, 2019

Although he seldom cries, he “grunts and snuffles and roars.”

From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019

In time, the kids help teach Dumbo to fly, coaxing him with a feather he snuffles into his trunk: He sneezes, and the exhalation sends him up.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2019

He’s small, all white, and he snuffles like a dog.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

On Sunday, in the community of Pacupac, on the north coast of Luzon, pigs marooned on a hillock snuffled for food.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2018

When the film mercifully finished, I crawled into bed and stared wide-eyed at my door for most of the night while my friend snuffled peacefully, completely oblivious to my terror.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2014

He left tracks larger than coffee cans, and snuffled through our dreams all night.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2013

He knelt down to pick up two hairless, puppies, which snuffled at his hands.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2010

A dog snuffled along a gate as they passed.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Lying on his side on a dark summer night earlier this year, Sir David Attenborough is watching a hedgehog snuffling around an urban garden.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

A snuffling pig called Muriel has so far been Rose’s sole success.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Kaunda, though, appeared unfazed by the unexpected intrusion of his personal space and continued to deliver his on-camera report, only finally bursting into laughter when the elephant’s leathery appendage started snuffling his face.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

I’m far removed from Pleistocene Siberia, but I thought I wasn’t a dog person until I was introduced to a snuffling puppy who needed some food and a warm place to sleep.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021

She pressed her snuffling, wet face against mine and, for the first and last time, we kissed.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides