Okay, I have to weigh in on the snowballs topic. Our old St. Bernard, Freckles, was a family dog when I was growing up. She, being a Saint Bernard, LOVED snow, would plow it with her broad muzzle and end up with a little triangle mound of snow on it when she looked up. But the funniest thing was throwing snowballs for her. She would get very excited, you would throw the snowball, then she'd pounce on it! That, of course, thoroughly smushed the snowball flat into the snow on the ground, but she would then sniff around for several minutes, trying to figure out where the "ball" went!

[This message has been edited by Karen (edited December 29, 2000).]