--- description: Ice can be so confusing! title: Watching This Very Large Puppy Learn About Ice Makes Winter Almost Worth It image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5031dc46ad551049/69877c2d35ba6f742cc06c06/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-1-24-26-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watching This Very Large Puppy Learn About Ice Makes Winter Almost Worth It by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 27, 2015 7:42 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 27, 2015 7:42 PM CUT Meet [Quinn](http://instagram.com/quinntheberner/ "undefined"), a five-month-old Bernese Mountain Dog who’s experiencing her first New England winter. A big part of the season, obviously, is ice. And, if you’re a dog, learning how it works and how to deal with it and how to successfully play on it. Here is Quinn getting herself acquainted with a slippery frozen surface in pretty much the cutest way possible: And now here’s that again, but soundtracked with some music for dramatic effect: See? Without hellish winter weather, cute things like this would not be possible. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3684545/puppy-slips-on-ice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3684545/puppy-slips-on-ice/"},"headline":"Watching This Very Large Puppy Learn About Ice Makes Winter Almost Worth It","datePublished":"2015-01-27T19:42:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:17.519Z","description":"Ice can be so confusing!","url":"https://time.com/3684545/puppy-slips-on-ice/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5031dc46ad551049/69877c2d35ba6f742cc06c06/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-1-24-26-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5031dc46ad551049/69877c2d35ba6f742cc06c06/screen-shot-2015-01-27-at-1-24-26-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-01-27 at 1.24.26 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3684545/puppy-slips-on-ice/","name":"Watching This Very Large Puppy Learn About Ice Makes Winter Almost Worth It"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"6 Inches of Snow in 20 Seconds: Timelapse of the Snowfall in New York City","description":"Watch a timelapse of New York City being blanketed with an overnight snowfall of 6 inches in the winter storm that hit the north eastern part of the U.S. on January 2, 2014.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/EGYRSDry/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-01-03T17:12:28.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EGYRSDry.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3684545/puppy-slips-on-ice/","duration":"PT37S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3684545/puppy-slips-on-ice/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```