15 Adorable Wildlife Puppies for National Puppy Day

Ask anyone who knows me, and they’ll tell you that two of my favorite things are: 1) wildlife and 2) puppies. When I’m not at work helping protect the first, I can most often be found hanging out with my rescue puppy, Allister. So when I happened across the fact that March 23rd is National Puppy Day – smack dab in the middle of National Wildlife Week – I knew this blog needed to happen.

Here is my celebration of two great things about this world, wildlife and puppies, combined into one. Commence: Wildlife puppies!

Note: All of the below images were donated by photographers who entered the National Wildlife Photo Contest, which is currently open for people to enter, vote for and share photos.

Wolf Pup

Wolf Pup

Antarctic Fur Seal Pup

Antarctic Fur Seal Pup

And another one…

Antarctic Fur Seal Pups

Grey Fox Pup

Grey Fox Pup

>> Adopt your own wildlife puppy and help National Wildlife Federation make a difference for wildlife

African Wild Dog Puppies

African Wild Dog Pups

Harbor Seal Pup

Harbor Seal

And one more…
Harbor Seal

Red Fox Pup

Red Fox

Meerkat Pups

Meerkat Pups

Coyote Pup

Coyote Pup

Sea Lion Pups

Sea Lion

Two more sea lion pups, trying to get a sea turtle to play.

Sea Lion Pups

Bat Pup

Bat from Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue

Sea Otter Pup

Sea Otter Mom And Pup

Pupfish

Pupfish

Ways to Celebrate National Puppy Day

The unofficial holiday National Puppy Day was designed to encourage the adoption of orphaned puppies and dogs in shelters across the country, so this Friday…

And lastly, in repayment for some amazing photo research help from my coworker (and because I couldn’t resist)…

Sleepy Puppy

Sleeping Upside-Down Pug