--- title: Adorable Puppies Play to Celebrate National Puppy Day description: Happy National Puppy Day! canonical: https://time.com/4269035/puppies-playing-national-puppy-day/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-23T15:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:04.652Z og:title: Watch These Adorable Puppies Playing to Celebrate National Puppy Day og:description: It's the cutest day of the year og:url: https://time.com/4269035/puppies-playing-national-puppy-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e856182f894de7b/69888c2a196cf427b803ae00/puppies.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 187879592 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch These Adorable Puppies Playing to Celebrate National Puppy Day twitter:description: It's the cutest day of the year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e856182f894de7b/69888c2a196cf427b803ae00/puppies.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch These Adorable Puppies Playing to Celebrate National Puppy Day  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 23, 2016 3:00 PM UTC  Six running Havanese puppies Six running Havanese puppies@Hans Surfer/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 23, 2016 3:00 PM UTC Happy [National Puppy Day](http://time.com/3755517/celebrities-national-puppy-day/)! Every year for the past 10 years, people all over the country — and more recently, world — have used March 23 as an occasion to celebrate [the pups](http://time.com/4242991/sheepdog-napa-17-puppies-litter/) that bring so much joy and happiness into their lives. Founded in 2006 by Colleen Paige, a celebrity pet and home lifestyle expert, the day is not only a chance to lavish love on your adorable furball, but also “to help save orphaned puppies across the globe and educate the public about the horrors of puppy mills,” according to the [National Puppy Day website](http://www.nationalpuppyday.com/#!about/c1se). **Read More:** [Watch a Family of Puppies Adorably Reunite After 4 Years Apart](http://time.com/4254286/puppy-family-reunion-4-years-apart/) The site also provides a [list of 50 different ways](http://www.nationalpuppyday.com/#!celebrate/c20bk) to commemorate the holiday, including hosting a [puppy party](http://time.com/4242867/stephen-colbert-puppy-oscars/), taking your puppy to the beach and having a portrait painted of your puppy to “suspend the fleeting magic of puppydom.” Feel free to get the festivities going by watching the video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4269035/puppies-playing-national-puppy-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4269035/puppies-playing-national-puppy-day/"},"headline":"Watch These Adorable Puppies Playing to Celebrate National Puppy Day","datePublished":"2016-03-23T15:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:04.652Z","description":"It's the cutest day of the year","url":"https://time.com/4269035/puppies-playing-national-puppy-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","puppies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e856182f894de7b/69888c2a196cf427b803ae00/puppies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e856182f894de7b/69888c2a196cf427b803ae00/puppies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"187879592","caption":"Six running Havanese puppies","creditText":"@Hans Surfer/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4269035/puppies-playing-national-puppy-day/","name":"Watch These Adorable Puppies Playing to Celebrate National Puppy Day"}}]}] ```