Today, March 23, has been set aside as National Puppy Day—founded in 2006 by the author Colleen Paige, and adopted by other groups and organizations since. The idea is to focus attention on puppies in need of adoption and the abuses found in puppy mills, but also to celebrate these furry little companions. In the spirit of the day, I am once more obligated to share some adorable images of pups around the world.
National Puppy Day Photos
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Chilean police officers march with puppies, future police dogs, during a parade celebrating Chile's 208th independence anniversary in Santiago on September 19, 2018. #
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Anna Sovtus, a Ukrainian veterinarian working with the Dogs of Chernobyl initiative, tends to a stray puppy she just washed in the bathroom sink at a makeshift veterinary clinic inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine on August 17, 2017. An estimated 900 stray dogs live in the exclusion zone, many of them likely the descendants of dogs left behind following the mass evacuation of residents in the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. #
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Alina Zagitova, the Russian Olympic women's-figure-skating gold medalist, holds an Akita Inu puppy named Masaru, presented by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in Moscow, Russia, on May 26, 2018. #
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The inmate Jonathan Ladson cuddles with a chocolate lab puppy at Merrimack County Jail in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on January 8, 2019. The New Hampshire jail is the first in the state to partner prisoners with the Hero Pups program to foster and train puppies with the goal of placing them with military veterans and first responders in need of support dogs. #
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