Puppies for National Puppy Day

A Samoyed puppy waits with its owner in a park in Beijing.

(Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)

Chicago Tribune

March 23, 2017 9:50 AM PT

National Puppy Day is March 23. Here are pictures of puppies to help the dog lovers of the world celebrate.

This stray puppy was rescued by Rosa Zetino, who lives in Guatemala City.

(Johan Ordonez / AFP/Getty Images)

Rescue team members carry three puppies found alive in the rubble of the avalanche-hit Rigopiano Hotel in Abruzzo, Italy.

(Alessandro Di Meo / EPA)

These 7-week-old puppies were born by in vitro fertilization at the Baker Institute for Animal Health in Ithaca, N.Y.

(Michael Carroll / AP)

Newfoundlander puppy.

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Cute puppy!

(Melissa Ross / Getty Images)

Nine Rhodesian ridgeback puppies from a litter of 17 look out of their box in Nauen, Germany.

(Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)