Yes. [He sounds wistful.] Waiting dormant for the new season to come. I love winter as well, there is a clean feeling to a snowy world, a sleepy quiet. But spring and summer are the times of joy, and fall and winter are for reflection--and snowmen.

Perhaps you need to reach out more, sometimes angry animals require taming, not rejection.

Covered in the contract. I understand. The rules are sometimes all we have to go by.