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Recent Examples of puppy dogIf all else fails, Hope says, Jack needs to put on his sad puppy dog face.—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024 Ivan acts like the world’s horniest puppy dog, but Ani takes a shine to him.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024 Liberatore’s puppy dog attention as loyalite Dean compels, yearning to hold Jade’s kiss and not just her camera.—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025 Lochlan is mostly just a puppy dog, not really joining in but not really bothered by his family’s excesses, either.—Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for puppy dog
One of the pooches was giving birth to puppies as police and animal rescue groups went room by room, recovering scores of dogs from the E. 66th St. home near National Drive in Mill Basin.
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Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2025
Officials said 15 adult dogs and one 4-week-old puppy were taken from the property, and that later, four of the dogs went into labor and had puppies.
Video footage shows the 9-week-old pups named Bruce, Betsy, Bronte and Barkley visiting the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia and observing the marine life there.
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Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
While many dogs thrive in social environments, not all pups are natural extroverts.
Possessing second-generation wolf dogs, defined in California as the offspring of a domestic dog and a half-wolf, half-dog hybrid — with no more than 25% wolf — is legal.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico named the six wolf dogs after characters created by fantasy author Sarah J. Maas
Six wolfdogs are spending their holiday season enjoying a winter wonderland after being kept as pets.
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