National Puppy Day Photos

Alan Taylor
March 23, 2019
21 Photos
In Focus

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.

Hints: View this page full screen. Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.

A husky pup plays with a young woman. #

Anurak Pongpatimet / Shutterstock

Read more
Chilean police officers march with puppies, future police dogs, during a parade celebrating Chile's 208th independence anniversary in Santiago on September 19, 2018. #

Claudio Reyes / AFP / Getty

Read more
Pug puppies play with their mother. #

Ezzolo / Shutterstock

Read more
A young blue heeler working dog, photographed on a farm in Victoria, Australia #

Natalie Jeffcott / Getty

Read more
A vizsla pup gnaws on another pup's leg in Hemmental, Switzerland. #

Holdrioo_ch / Getty

Read more
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. #

Sean Gallup / Getty

Read more
A black Chihuahua puppy runs through the snow. #

Pat Gaines / Getty

Read more
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. #

Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP

Read more
A German shepherd pup howls in the grass. #

Brais Seara / Shutterstock

Read more
A dachshund puppy snoozes in her bed. #

Galina Kovalenko / Shutterstock

Read more
A man keeps a puppy warm in his jacket while watching a New Year's parade in Comanesti, Romania, on December 30, 2017. #

Vadim Ghirda / AP

Read more
Samira, an eight-week-old dachshund puppy, carries her water dish in Wilmington, Massachusetts, on June 18, 2018. #

Elise Amendola / AP

Read more
An adopted Australian shepherd pup comes home after being adopted by his new owners on an autumn day in Montreal, Quebec. #

Angela Auclair / Getty

Read more
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. #

Elise Amendola / AP

Read more
A Pembroke Welsh corgi puppy chomps on a leaf in a garden. #

Vellicos / Shutterstock

Read more
Two-month-old golden retriever puppies are seen at the police-canine training school in Santiago, Chile, on October 9, 2018. #

Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty

Read more
One of five puppies rescued by police officers during an operation against smuggling in Edirne, Turkey, on November 8, 2017 #

Hakan Mehmet Sahin / Anadolu Agency / Getty

Read more
This pup really wants those camo pants. #

Inigo Cia / Getty

Read more
A Siberian husky puppy enjoys a nice swim in a pool. #

Wasitt Hemwarapornchai / Shutterstock

Read more
A pup takes part in an autumn pumpkin harvest. #

LaineN / Shutterstock

Read more
A man leaves a stray-dog adoption event with his new puppy after adopting it in Bucharest, Romania, on October 4, 2008. #

Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

Read more