Watson

Our dog, Watson loves the snow.  Loves it!  The cold has no effect on him whatsoever and he can play in it for hours on end.  However, we have found his "doodle" coat and snow are not a good combination at all.  The longer he stays in the snow the more the snow attaches to the underside of his belly and down his front and legs. The ice balls get bigger and bigger until they about the size of my fist.  The ice balls will actually start to make noise as they hit each other when Watson moves around.

I'm sure they bother him, but that is not the real problem.  The problem is when he is ready to come into the cabin.  They do not come off.  The only way is to let them melt off (which makes an absolute mess on the floors) or take him directly into the shower and wash them off with warm water and dry him off as best we can with a towel.  

So, that is what we had to do.  Multiple showers every day.  Funny though, all of a sudden he didn't want to come into the cabin any more.  He would come up to the door and we would open it to let him in and he would just stand there. It finally dawned on us, that he didn't want a shower and had connected those 2 things pretty quickly.  Poor Watson.