23 unusual (but adorable) dog photos to celebrate National Puppy Day
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March 23 is National Puppy Day! Here are 23 out of the ordinary photos of puppies to mark the occasion. Enjoy.
Romania Weather
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A husky puppy is transported in a child's push chair, on a snowy street downtown Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. Southern Romania is affected by snowfalls with traffic problems reported on many roads. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Vadim GhirdaSouth Korea Pet Hotel
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Vava, a three years female puppy, is groomed at a pet hotel, which newly opened Tuesday, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. The pets industry recently increase due to graying and singles in the county. The hotel has a grooming center, hospital, school and a pet store. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Lee Jin-manRussia Baby Tigers
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In this photo taken on Friday, June 29, 2012, Siberian tiger cub Plyusha and Shar Pei puppy Fighter play in the house of Yekaterina Khodakova, whose Shar Pei dog Cleopatra is breastfeeding Plyusha and her sibling Clyopa in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. The cubs were born in late May in a small zoo at the Oktryabsky resport in Sochi, but their mother refused to feed them. Fewer than 400 Siberian tigers have survived in the wild, most of them in the cedar forests of Russia's Far East. (AP Photo/Igor Yakunin)
Igor YakuninCAT PUPPIES
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A mother cat on Thursday Sept. 9, 2004 suckles two two-week-old dog puppies that were found abandoned at birth in a garbage can in Warsaw, Poland. The cat, who had been hit by a car, was rushed the same day to the same clinic where the rescued puppies were brought and took immediately to nursing them. Two other puppies in the litter did not survive, while the cat's own kittens are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
CZAREK SOKOLOWSKISouth Korea Cloned Dogs
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Five cloned pitbull puppies are seen with mother dog during at the Seoul National University Hospital for Animals in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. McKinney has received five baby dogs _copies of her beloved late pitbull "Booger"- from a South Korean biotech firm in what it calls the world's first commercial canine cloning service.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Ahn Young-joonJACK RUSSELL TERRIER
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First place winner "Arthur", left, and second place "Harley" fight their way into the straw finish line barrier, during the Jack Russell terrier race at the opening of the "Dog Day Afternoon at National Geographic" street festival, Saturday, May 22, 2004 in Washington. Arthur, the ninth of nine puppies was unwanted said owner Liz Patterson of Woodbridge, Va. and that she got him as a Christmas present. Harley's owner Anne Beckley is from Damascus, Md. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
MANUEL BALCE CENETAPoland Zoo Tiger
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Three months old tiger cub Zoya, rejected by her mother, plays with Alsatian puppy Frida of the same age, in a special enclosure at the Warsaw zoo, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. The dog owned by a zoo employee was introduced to the tiger so that she could have a companion for the next months. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
ALIK KEPLICZBrutus
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In this April 2, 2015 photo, two year old Rottweiler Brutus, who was recently fitted with prosthetics on all four paws, and is currently learning to use them, takes a walk near his owner's home in Loveland, Colo. Brutus lost all four paws to frostbite as a puppy while under care of a breeder, and Aquilina began caring for him about a year ago. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Brennan LinsleyNew Zealand Tiny Puppy
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Six-month-old Maltese pup, Scooter sits dwarfed by a tea cup as owner Cheryl McKnight admires her tiny ball of fluff in Gisborne, New Zealand Tuesday, July 14, 2009. Maltese puppy Scooter at just over the height of a tea cup, some 3.2 inches tall at the shoulder, is right down there among the world's smallest "sleeve" dogs. The ball of white fluff measures just over eight inches from nose to tail _ and while at six months he's still a puppy, New Zealand owner McKnight said Tuesday that Scooter appears to have stopped growing.(AP Photo/Rebecca Grunwell) ** NEW ZEALAND OUT, FAIRFAX OUT **
Rebecca GrunwellFive Legged Puppy
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In this photo taken on July 16, 2009, Lily, a Chihuahua terrier mix, that has five legs, that was rescued by Allyson Siegel of Charlotte, N.C., licks a bowl. The Charlotte Observer reported Saturday that Siegel, 45, of Charlotte bought the puppy last week because she couldn't bear for the Chihuahua-terrier mix to be sold to a Coney Island, N.Y., sideshow that features disfigured animals. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Jeff Siner)
Jeff SinerAfghanistan
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U.S. Army Sgt. Sean Henry, of Brier, Wash., right, plays with Ranger, an Afghan puppy that lives at the oupost, while taking a rest with Spc. Jason Purdy, left, of Gig Harbor, Wash., and Spc. Jeffrey Ortiz, of Charleston, Ill, after a foot patrol with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, of the 5th Styker Brigade, Saturday, May 8, 2010, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Julie JacobsonGermany Dogs Litter Of 17
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Nine Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies from a litter of 17, look out of their box in Nauen, 50 kilometers outside Berlin on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. On Sept 28, and 29, 4 years old Ridgeback Etana had 17 puppies. All of them survived. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Markus SchreiberChihuahuas on Wheels
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Six-month old Chihuahua puppies, Ellie, left, and Gulliver, right, nuzzle together at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Methuen, Mass. Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The already adopted puppies, born without front legs, were fitted with wheels made by Eddie's Wheels of Shelburne, Mass. and are training to walk and run with them. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Elise AmendolaGiggy
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Giggy attends the American Humane Associationâs 4th Annual âHero Dog Awardsâ at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision for American Humane Association/AP Images)
Matt SaylesFashion London Collections Men AW13: Hentsch Man
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A model leading a dog both wearing outfits by designer Hentsch Man for their Autumn/Winter show during Men's London Collections in central London, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
Joel RyanPhilippines Floods
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Alexis Joy Preclaro, 4, sits with her puppy in a table at an evacuation center in Taytay town, east of Manila, Philippines. About 2.4 million people in Manila and nearby provinces have been affected, forcing more than 360,000 to seek shelter in government-run evacuation centers, the Office of Civil Defense reported Friday. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)
Pat RoqueTyrion
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Tyrion poses with the Emmy statuettes at the Television Academyâs 66th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at The Leonard H. Goldenson Theater in the NoHo Arts District in Los Angeles. (Photo by Brian Dowling/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)
Brian DowlingRomania Daily Life
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Zen, a Shar Pei puppy, is carried by her owner on a chilly day in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Vadim GhirdaJiff Pom
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Jiff Pom arrives at the Super Bowl 50 Rolling Stone Party at The Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, in San Francisco. (Photo by Omar Vega/Invision/AP)
Omar VegaExtreme Heat Wave
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Morgan Reed, a promotions assistant for KSLX, plays with a puppy wearing elastic booties at a PetSmart in Tempe, Ariz. on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Phoenix radio station KSLX handed out the protective coverings to protect dogs' paws from the hot pavement, as temperatures in Phoenix are forecasted to hit 120 degrees. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
Angie WangIrma The Poor
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In this Sept. 12, 2017 photo, Nicolas Perez keeps a puppy he named "Irma," stuffed in his shirt, who he rescued from flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, in Immokalee, Fla. The town is one of the poorest in the state. Home of many day laborers and migrant workers, Immokalee sustained heavy damage from Irma that will take months to overcome. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Gerald HerbertRussia Turkmenistan
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a puppy presented by Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. The presidents met at the sidelines of a summit of leaders of ex-Soviet nations in Sochi. (Maxim Shemetov, Pool Photo via AP)
Maxim ShemetovPuppy Romania
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A man keeps a puppy warm in his jacket while watching a New Year's parade in Comanesti, northern Romania, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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