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Also, someone last winter up here in VT told me her husband took the snowblower around the yard to create a maze in the snow where the dog could run in circles and loops and end up back at the door. Sounded like a good idea to me.
A few feet of snow is normal where I live but it's fluffy and easy for the dogs to porpoise through. I still shovel a path for Britty because she's old and it's no fun to squat in cold wet stuff.
Since Obie isn't too long out of surgery I would be sure he doesn't over exert himself but I'm sure he'll love catching snowballs.
My dogs never minded a few inches. But a foot or more? Yeah, I had to go out there and shovel a path for them first. Especially the rat terrier, who hated snow to begin with. His post-snow piddles consisted of: run down the stairs, squat at the bottom of the stairs, run back up the stairs and stare at the back door, willing it to open.
Many years ago, my husband was working out of town. I was about 85 miles from home when a major snowstorm struck. Knowing my dogs were home alone and would need to pee, I drove home in the storm. It took me 5 hours to get home and the snow was 18" deep when I arrived. When I opened the back door to let them out to pee, they ran down the stairs, looked at the depth of snow and ran back in the house! Even though they hadn't been let out to pee in quite a few hours. Yep, I had to get out the shovel and flatten some snow so they could take care of business.
Last year when we had 28" of snow measured in my back yard I did shovel a narrow path but didn't take it all the way down to the ground, probably left it at about 6" which they could manage.
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