Mike is definitely the expert since he gets way more snow than the rest of us. When we got snow this winter, I would keep an area of the grass shoveled for Sissy to go on. She would head right to this spot, do her thing and high tail it inside. She gets cold very easy, so she wears a coat and then only stays out for about a minute. She refused to do the bootie thing. Depending on the size of your Yorkie, they might like romping in the snow. Sissy's head is only 8" above ground, so since we usually get 2 or more inches of snow at a time, she is literally partly buried if she goes in the snow. She's not even crazy about the grass when it is needing to be cut and it is wet!!
Good luck to you. Missouri also gets HOT in the summer time, so that will be new to her, too. I'm trying to get out of Michigan - we're hoping to transition to the San Diego area around this time next year....
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