First: if you're not going to call me a merman, it's cecaelia. Not sea monster.

[Rude. At least where he's from.]

Second: they're not pets. As for what I do with the snow, I bundle up and resign myself to wet ankles for the next few months. It's really not so bad. Unless you get buried in the snow and stay there for months, you're usually not going to get too wet most of the time.