[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by Snow Yorkies

As always love the pictures... Great job!!! But I have a unrelated question and it is about the weather there. When it gets sub-zero (not sure if you are in the area when it gets like -60 below) What do you do with your babies and going outside to go potty??? Do you have to keep them inside and use pee pee pads???? Man, that would scare me that it would freeze in mid stream..lol or their ears would get frost bitten fast. Probably a stupid question, but I am still curious. I know when we lived in MI. and the wind chill would get like -20 below I was always freaking out about the horses. They were always out in the barn with blankets on and okay I know you are all going to laugh here and it is okay, but I would go and put heavy wool socks on their ears. (my husbands hunting socks, he would get mad , but they were washable!!!) So.... Just curious???

Not a stupid question at all, but it doesn't get terribly cold in Anchorage as a rule. We're usually in the 20s as a winter low, and we'll drop below zero for just a couple weeks out of the year -- usually. Eddie's never used a pee pad. When we're at our coldest, zero or so, I limit his time outside to a quick pee and poop -- and he's usually happy to oblige. If I can see it bothering him more, I'll put booties on him too.

Of course, this is only Eddie's second winter. I don't know what I'll do if we get a good, old-fashioned 40 below cold spell.