Pets
Celebrate National Puppy Day 2024 With These Precious IL Pooches
National Puppy Day is March 23, 2024. Patch is celebrating with this fetching photo spread of the cutest canines in Illinois.

ILLINOIS— Disproportionately large ears, pleading eyes, wagging tails, curiously cocked heads, droopy tongues, playful poses, puzzled stares, festive duds and full-on smiles. For National Puppy Day, March 23, 2024, we are celebrating every bit of the ebullient little critters that have left their muddy pawprints on our best furniture, chewed our most prized possessions, stolen entire pizzas and walked circles around our senses before they nestled in our hearts.
We asked Illinois Patch readers to send photos of their puppies in honor of National Puppy Day and were utterly devastated by how adorable these darn treat-stealers turned out to be. Peruse the selection yourself, see if you spot a pup you recognize and try...just try... not to melt entirely.










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