Years ago in CO, we had a poodle, a lab, and a doxie who was a miniature. If the doxie had to go out in the snow, she would try to walk with no paws in the nasty white stuff. It didn't work well. She alwaus ended up going on the deck. The poodle would be out bounding through snow drifts, loving it all. The lab had no preference, she just loved life no matter the weather.