Hi Joseph, I live UK by the Welsh Borders and when I collected wee Sunny Girl eight years ago we had a cold winter and snow. We collected her beginning of December just eight weeks old.
She loved the funny white stuff, as did Big Bro Sam, and it was cold out there. Sunny saved us humans the middle of the night venturing outside by very quickly discovering the cat flap! Just naturally followed the cats in and out as she was about the same size as them anyway when she first arrived. She house trained herself. As she grew, I replaced the outside flap with slightly larger (Well, medium sized) dog flap and she still goes in and out of there. Next puppy, Sim, also trained himself and huge as he is now, yes, he still gets in and out too. I took some pics of this remarkable event a couple of years ago: http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/longlease/sunnysim14.htm If you have secure area outside the house, installing a flap is a great idea! All Love, Jean, Sunny, Sim, Barney and the Gang XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/longlease/index.htm