I had several inches of snow on my deck, and I opened the door and let the kitties go out. They got about a foot away from the door, and turned around and scurried back in. Now in the middle of summer I can leave the door open and they won't go out.

Somebody let that poor cold kitty inside..

Many years ago, I had a neighbor cat across the street, that was so cute and friendly, but not the smartest cat around. He would constantly want to go outside in the winter, even every half hour or so, on the sunny days, no matter how cold outside. Drove his owner batty by always meowing to get let outside over and over, because in his mind, if it was sunny outside, he thought it had to be warm, etc.. Never caught on to the idea of sunny skies and cold temps outside,. So after being outside a few minutes, he would want to come back inside. Not a good learner, so the cycle would be repeated all day. Many the time I would let him into our garage so his owner would get a break. We were afraid she would leave him outside overnight sometime and let him die as a catsicle..

Not snow cats then.

@TomMcGiverin I was reading about the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, an dthere was the story about how his car would go to one door wanting out, but when it saw snow, it would move on to the next door, and so on. His wife commented "He's looking for the door to summer", and that comment inspired him to write a book by the same name. Sadly, I don't remember cats being prominent in that book ...