Du-ers in deep snow....how the heck can your doggies go outside????

[dixiegrrrrl]

Saw this on LOL cats this morning, and realized it raises a darn good question....what DO you do in such circumstance???

[Kber]

1. In big storms (and yesterday's counts)

We shovel a potty patch several times while the storm is in progress. Otherwise we end up in your picture.

[femmocrat]

2. We shoveled out a big circle in the yard so they can "go".

The youngest one was befuddled though. She couldn't find her "spot". She finally caught on and went where the other dogs did. It has not been fun with small dogs.

Our front porch looked like your picture!

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Oh my....tiny dogs esp.

altho they might be able to use a diaper pad...I have friend who has Shitz zoo ( no idea how to spell it) who stays indoors most of the time, they have trained it to use baby diaper pads.

[femmocrat]

5. I will definitely train my "next" dogs to do that.

I have corgis, so they are short but not tiny. The older ones have limited mobility, so we have to carry them in and out. The snow is taller than they are!

[phylny]

8. If I were smarter, I'd have taught the dogs how to go through a potty door

to the garage to pee on a pee pad. But, I'm not that smart.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Miss PIA manages to walk her own path to the road. She loves going out in the snow.

[a la izquierda]

6. We have a raised ranch...

so our deck covers part of an area that my husband fenced in. He shoveled out the other part. Still, one of my dogs refuses to poop back there, so he has to get walked.

My chihuahua refuses to go outside at all in this weather. So we litter box trained him. He's a cat.

[hlthe2b]

7. medium to big dogs (the athletic variety) will burrow through--

excitedly making their own snow tunnels. The little guys--sorry it is up to us to dig them a space!

A record setting snow of 4 feet with 5-6 feet drifts in Denver several years ago had everyone heading to nearby Cheeseman park. The dogs burrowed a path somehow and their humans happily let them take the lead. Of course the Mary Jane indulgers (prior to legalization, of course) then took the opportunity to build their own snow caves and all one could see (and smell) was the wafting fumes/smoke out where they'd build their little eskimo caves.... LOL

Record snows are a lot of fun (as well as a bit of a pain)....

Enjoy!

[annabanana]

9. We dig a couple of poo patches. . .

and a poo-path to get to them.

[Skittles]

14. you want I should kick your poo-patching/pathing ass, annabanana?

LEMME AT YOU!!!

[annabanana]

16. Not unless you're volunteering to come hold my short-legged

pup up in the air while she does her business. . .

[hunter]

10. Our husky is fine with snow...

... it's the rain he hates.

He'd rather poop in the house than get his feet or fur wet. He's a dog whose heritage is places where falling through the ice or freezing rain is often deadly. Water is dangerous.

We have two animal shelter rescues we can probably blame Disney for.

Huskies and Dalmatians. Beautiful dogs, but entirely misfit to most environments.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. The dogs I had when I lived in the rainy Pac. NW got trained to potty on command.

And to do it at the end of a 30 foot line that I held while safely under the porch roof.
So they do #1 and #2 on command, pretty quickly and then get hauled in even if they would prefer to go chasing smells in the rain.
Doesn't take long for them to automatically head for the house where a treat waits.

[hunter]

12. We do "train" our dogs, same as our kids...

..., but nobody likes it.

[magical thyme]

13. my storm doors open out, so first I have to kick a door open enough for somebody

to squeeze through.

Then we just plow through the snow. I used to shovel all the paths, but gave up during last year's blizzard blitz. We just trample "paths" now. Good 'nuff.

[Kingofalldems]

15. I dug a small beltway around my yard.