Your pictures: Animals in the snow

Readers have been sending in their photos of animals in the snow. Chico the cat makes his first snowball in Croydon. Photo: Murray Scott

Alex Dixie and Laura Holden took this wildlife photo while walking in Knole Part in Sevenoaks.

This deer was spotted by Kim Brown in Studley Park in North Yorkshire.

Joana Cox managed to get a close look at this robin in Rutland.

Georgina Flower from Rugby rides Big Will's "chariot of death".

Heath Teasdale saw this dog shivering in the deep snow in a park in Ashtead, Surrey. It was soon joined by a bigger friend and went bouncing off.

Jenny Carson took this photo in Surrey after the heavy snowfall.

John Welburn sent us this photo of the rather sad-looking Scapa in the snow.