Well I have a young Chessie and he loves cold and he loves water. Yesterday it was 16 below and we went for a walk down by my creek which is spring fed and never freezes over completely even at 20 or 30 below. He jumps in and swims around for a while and when he came out he immediately turns white from ice forming on his coat and he is actually panting and looks at me as if to say "wow" this fun. When we have snow (which we have had very little this winter) he plays "snow plow". He shove his nose into the snow and then runs with his nose acting like a "v" snow plow. He is as silly looking as any goof ball you ever saw when he looks up at you with snow on his muzzle and what looks like a grin on his homely mug.