Lola in the Southern Snow "I'm supposed to do what, exactly?"

[Mira]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What IS this cold wet stuff, anyway?

Great capture, my dear Mira!

Watching her grow up is really fun!

[CrispyQ]

2. Funny!

My dog loves snow! He sticks his whole head in it. He wallows in it. He likes when it's cold & the snow sticks around for awhile. He'll find a place to wallow & it gets really slick, from melting a bit during the day & then freezing up. He slips & slides all over & loves it!

Come to think of it, I know lots of dogs who love the snow!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. What breed is your dog?

Ours has a nice thick double coat, loves to be outside when it is cold.

The human at the other end of his lease, not so much.

[CrispyQ]

5. Booyah is a catahoula. They're herding dogs, bred in Louisanna.

He was about 4 years old when we got him from the pound. He'd been in & out of the pound in Cheyenne & they brought him down to Boulder county. I saw his pic on the Humane Society page & took him home the next day. Here he is his first winter with us. We got so much snow that year!!! This was after a huge storm of about 18", which was on top of an earlier snow dump of about 12". He's lovin' it!



Here he is with his tug-towel on a nicer day. He has a blue merle coat & one eye is half brown-half blue. He's a handsome dude!



Yeah, I bundle up really good when we go out, cuz he likes to take his time.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Goodness, how much snow did you get?

Lola looks curious and alert.
Was she happy to come inside?

[Mira]

8. Between 5 to 8 inches

It's beautiful out. Lola loved the snow actually. But she is tiny, only 12 weeks old, and has short fine hair and an underbelly of warm skin. Can't let her be out long.

[mnhtnbb]

6. So cute! Snowy LOVES the snow and it's the only time

I let her out without a leash because she likes to play hide and seek. It's not safe if there is any traffic--even though
we're on a dead end street--because she can run down the hill or up the hill to get to roads with traffic.

So...as she's aged she's gotten better about coming back when called, but she still gives me a look at first as if to say, "no, mom
I have to run around a bit first".

At 8 am I let her out this morning and she came back in about 10 minutes. At 11 am I opened the door and she wouldn't go. Out and in.
Out and in. She wanted me to come out with her. So I put on the snow boots and bundled up and she very happily went out.

She ran up and down the street. In the yards. When I got cold after about 15 minutes and headed down the steps to the house, she came, too.



Here's a photo of her that I shot from the front door at 8 am this morning when she was waiting at the top of the driveway, hoping to get me to come out and play with her.

[Mira]

9. LOVE love love her face.

Great photo.

[elleng]

7. HELP, of course!

Hope y'all are OK!

[Solly Mack]

10. She's adorable, as always. But that snow...not so much.

[liberal N proud]

11. We just moved to the Savannah area, our dog is missing the snow

When we lived in Ohio she needed to go out and play in the snow often.