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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.

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National Puppy Day is March 23, 2024. Patch is celebrating with this fetching photo spread of the cutest canines in Illinois.
National Puppy Day is March 23, 2024. Patch is celebrating with this fetching photo spread of the cutest canines in Illinois. (Shannon Antinori/Patch)

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.

photos via Bre Mcevilly, Mary Ostrem, Hope Boor, Tiffany Turnbull, Laura Kelly, Michael Skora, Jacqueline Koukol, Austin Howell
photos via Lesley Kay, Rene Rudinski, Alana Charbonneau, Lisa Bogusz, John O'Dell, Tracey Martin, Marissa Watson, John Coakley
photos via Jen Matthews Francis, Cheri Clarke, Matt Garza, Sharon Mikula, Melissa Lowe, Glenda Elizondo, Joe Scroeder
via Jack Maton, Sue Butters, Kathleen Depre, Diana Prince, Tony Trabizi, Ellen Rossi, P. Entwistle, Kathleen Enright
photos via Bri Wagner, Samantha Skora, Amy McKnight, Rita Valerio, Justin Kerrick, Mike Compton, Ashley Quinn
photos via Dimitra Loggarakis, Michelle Kehr, John and Sharyn Melaniphy, Julie Knaperek, Corinne Jones
photos via Jodi Weiss, Haley Maday, Stephanie Collins, Sharon Susner, Beth Storm, Wendy Meyers
photos via Beth Storm, Elidia Lahey, Nicholas Locke, Alex Bibian, Wren Brasky, Kaitlyn Hallahan, Jennifer Bidochka, Kayla Shields,
photos via Gina Wojcik, Jill Smith, Maggie Rose, Colleen Caro, Beth Pingry, Jim Canavan, Danielle Clauston, Lisa Baar
photos via Cameron Chellino, Brittany Kringle, Melissa Edwards, Lorraine Swanson, Lisa Farver, Shannon Antinori

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