Snow higher than a dachshunds back

While Miss Peaches may appear to have no head, its actually just stuffed in the snow. Peaches being a wire hair quite enjoys the snow and will stuff her head into the snow to see what she might come up with. Usually nothing, but she can be quite determined and will often turn herself into quite the snow bunny. Our last storm was a good one, we got about 14 inches as near as I can figure with all the drifting. It was definitely higher than a dachshunds back. I had to keep going out and digging little trenches so the dogs could go out. I kept it pretty good until the night when all was lost and there were no trenches to be seen in the morning. I had to start all over, if I'd let them out without digging they would have taken one step and about disappeared. When they did get out they loved running around, it was like a big habitrail for dogs.