Playing in the Big Snow

Emme loves the snow. Every morning, after Ken gets dressed, he takes Rudy and then Emme outside to play. Since we have had the big snow, Emme is even more eager to go outside and can hardly wait until Rudy is done. She stands by the kitchen door and whines all the time Rudy is playing.

She likes to walk where the snow has been shoveled and loves to push her head into the snow on either side of the path and eat bites of snow. She is a little reluctant to walk on top of the snow. The snow is deeper than her head and when she walks on top of it, she sinks down and is very uncertain of what is going on. Even with that hesitation, she is intrigued with the snow. She would stay outside much longer than is safe for her. We watch to make sure that she is not shivering or holding her paws up out of the snow and as soon as we see a sign of that, we whisk her inside and wipe her off with a towel.