Burley Loving Life in the Snow

As you know if you have been following life here in Fy Nyth for any length of time, Burley adores the snow! He loves winter, and I think must believe that summer is this odd little time of year when his wonderful snow melts temporarily. If you have seen some of our backpacking trips in the summer, you probably remember him searching out any snow patches left high in the mountains and racing right to them to roll in and do belly slides on. But right now he doesn't have to search at all to find snow. We are just wrapping up the second snowiest February ever recorded in my area. The all time snowiest one was just two years ago in 2019 which was the first winter of Burley's life.

Since snow and cold make him so happy, I though I would share a little of his joyful exuberance with you all. He makes me smile and I thought you might too. Here's a little video of some of his snowy antics.

And then just lots of shots of him playing in the winter wonderland. That thick double coat English Shepherds have been bred with for generations, with a super soft downy layer of insulating fur under their top layer of silky guard hair which shed everything off of them, certainly keeps him nice and warm. He never seems to notice the cold at least down to -30F ish and spend a lot of time outside together in all the winter temps. 

He loves fetching his frisbee and disk, diving after them in the snow with so much energy. 

He can come up from a "snow dive" covered in powdery white, but almost all winter the snow here is dry and cold enough that one shake leaves him clean and dry again. 

You can just see how happy he is, whether the sun is shinning (fairly rare in the winter here) or it's dumping yet more snow. 

And of course, Burley joins me for all the projects I do at our home or others. Which at this time of year means he comes along for a lot of snow shoveling jobs. Do you have a companion that loves snow or one of those that hates anything cold or frozen?