--- description: Her name is Elsa and she's the new snow queen title: Watch the Most Selfless Dog in the World Shovel Snow image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the Most Selfless Dog in the World Shovel Snow by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 25, 2015 7:55 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 25, 2015 7:55 PM CUT Shoveling snow can be exhausting, so it’s always nice when somebody else will lend a helping hand. Or, in this case, a helping paw. (Get it?) Meet Elsa. She’s a yellow lab from Guelph, Ontario, who very gamely decided to take some initiative, grab a shovel and help clear snow off her humans’ backyard ice rink. She has such a good attitude that she even wags her tail during the task. It makes sense, of course, that a dog named Elsa would [be so comfortable with snow](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/frozen-screencaps-elsa-the-snow-queen-35979391-1280-720.jpg "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3722696/dog-shovels-snow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3722696/dog-shovels-snow/"},"headline":"Watch the Most Selfless Dog in the World Shovel Snow","datePublished":"2015-02-25T19:55:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:12.870Z","description":"Her name is Elsa and she's the new snow queen","url":"https://time.com/3722696/dog-shovels-snow/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/3722696/dog-shovels-snow/","name":"Watch the Most Selfless Dog in the World Shovel Snow"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Meet Boo. Is This the Internet's Cutest Dog?","description":"Boo, a five-year-old Pomeranian with over 1.6 million followers on Facebook, has just released his first book","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6qldqUSm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-09-12T16:19:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6qldqUSm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3722696/dog-shovels-snow/","duration":"PT1M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3722696/dog-shovels-snow/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```