A pup named Snowpea has been blasted by friends and colleagues as a “know it all,” and when it comes to riding in the car, a tenacious “backseat driver.”

“Nobody wants to carpool with him anymore,” says Miranda Peterson, who attended a chemistry class with Snowpea last semester. “He’s all like, ‘you should start turning earlier,’ and ‘stop braking so hard, it’s bad for your suspension.’ He does pony up for gas money, but honestly, it’s not worth it anymore.”

While many have criticized Snowpea’s approach, some, like his roommate Evan Goldreich, have come to his defense.

“He just wants to be helpful,” Goldreich tells The Fluffington Post. “Is he super annoying? Sure. But it’s coming from a place of love.”

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Though Madison County, Iowa is generally best known for its covered bridges, immortalized in the 1992 best-seller, The Bridges of Madison County and subsequent Clint Eastwood/Meryl Streep film adaptation of the same name, there is another attraction worth checking out. Lesser known than the people-sized bridges, though equally impressive, the county is home to at least seven covered doghouses.

“The doghouses were built in the late 1880s to early 1890s,” said county historian Benton Cox. “There were originally over twenty, but fire and disrepair have dwindled that number over the years.”

The remaining bridges are all on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and are a favorite among Iowa State University architecture students. 

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