I love this video. I wish I had found it during the holiday season because I would have sent it out as a greeting.

It’s silly, I know. It reminds me of Dakota, though, and how he, too, would burrow through the snow just like Bailey does. He had done it since he was a puppy and it would make me laugh. He would disappear into the snow and pop out like a jack-in-the-box twenty feet away. The way he would do it was hilarious because it was like he was wondering why I didn’t following him under the snow.

Even as he got older and his bones started hurting him more, he still loved the snow. He still loved running and playing in it, loved pushing his nose along in it and then snort the snow off of it, like it was a wonder that the snow stuck to that wet nose.

I loved that dog.