50+ Photos Show Dogs Before & After Their Adoption, And It's Hard To Believe They Are The Same Dogs

Adopting a pet is the best thing that can happen to a shelter animal and even though it is a huge responsibility it will always bring happiness to you and your new pet. To show what love and care can do, owners all over the world are sharing heartwarming pictures of their dogs before & after adoption. This beautiful compilation shows the impact that our love has on these animals - from tired and sad faces to huge smiles and king-sized beds. This will surely clear any doubts whether or not adoption is the right choice. Check these photos below! (h/t)

#1 Before And After Adoption

#2 My Ex Worked At The Spca And Refused To Let This Piglet Be Euthanized, So She Took Him Home. She Did An Amazing Job.

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#3 Before And After Adoption

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#4 My Dog Wynter - From Living In The Streets To Relaxing In My Backyard

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#5 From Cellmates To Lifemates

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#6 Ripley At Around 6 Months In Iran And Again At Around 1 Year In Her Forever Home In The United States

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#7 Before And After Adoption

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#8 Hank! Abuse Left This Poor Pup With Scars And Timidness, But Now He Smiles Ear-To-Ear

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#9 Frank The Tank. Before And After Adoption

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#10 So My Sis Adopted Her Very First Dog And His Before And After Pics Have Me Crying

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#11 Adopted This Little Dude While On Vacation In Mexico. The Litter Was Found In The Jungle In Terrible Shape But Were Nursed Back To Health By The Local Animal Rescue Foundation. Here He Is Today Healthy, Happy And Adapting Well To His New Life As A Canadian

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#12 The Night We Found Him On The Street Vs 1 Week After Adoption. Meet Pablo

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#13 This Is My Koda Bear The Day Before He Got Adopted And A Few Months After

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#14 Before And After Adoption

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#15 After 4 Years In The Street, Annie Found Her Home With My Parents. First Day Vs 1 Week Later

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#16 My Friend Rescued This Sweet Girl From Being Put Down Over A Minor Skin Condition. Meet Scarlett

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#17 To The Person Who Left Her In A Park To Die 2 Years Ago... Look At Her Now! With Your Horrible Neglect Came A Whole Lot Of Happiness.

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#18 Before And After

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#19 Before & After Of My Adopted Pup

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#20 Before And After Adoption

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#21 My Name Is Rey! I Was On Death Row Yesterday But Today I'm A Free Woman!

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#22 Before And After Adoption

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#23 Before And After Adoption

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#24 Meet Kasper! He's Only A Pup And Travelled All The Way From Romania To Join Us In The Uk. Has Yet To Integrate And Learn The Language. Very Good Boy Nonetheless

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#25 Toby At The County Shelter 2 Years Ago And Is Now King Of Our House.

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#26 Meet Waldo. From Crusty And Underweight To A Very Fluffy Boy

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#27 "We Found Teddy’s Shelter Picture And It’s Heartbreaking. We’re So Glad He Came Into Our Lives And Is Letting His Sweet, Goofy Personality Shine! Hopefully He Knows That He’ll Be Safe, Clean, Fed, And Loved For The Rest Of His Life"

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#28 Before And After Adoption... Nacho The One Eyed Dog

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#29 My Boyfriend's New 4 Month Old Pup, Phoebe, Before And After Adoption

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#30 One Year Ago Today We Adopted Harper From The Fairfax Animal Shelter. She Had Been Adopted And Returned At Least Three Times In The First Year Of Her Life And Looked Alone, Scared And Confused.

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#31 Before And After Adoption

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#32 Before And After Adoption

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#33 From A Houston Stray To A Midwestern Princess

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#34 On The Left, A Picture Of Ajax, An Eskie Mix, From 8 Months Ago: 26 Lbs Of Skin, Bone, And Mange, With Kennel Cough And Little Use Of His Back Legs, Pulled Straight From Animal Control. On The Right, Ajax, 8 Months Later: A Healthy 42 Lbs And Overjoyed To

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#35 Before And After Adoption

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#36 "My Foster Baby Is Heading Off To Her Furever Home Today. I'm Gonna Miss Her!"

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#37 What A Few Years Of Love Will Do. My Dog On His Adoption Day And Five Years Later.

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#38 Ziggy Stardust In His New Furever Home

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#39 A Year Ago I Adopted This Shaved Boy, Now He's A Happy Fluffer Boy

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#40 Before And After Fostering: Little Baby Girl Covered In Mange Gets Her Eyebrows Back

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#41 This Stray Girl Walked By My Sisters' Donkey Rescue Centre. She Couldn't Let Her Starve So She Flew Her To The Netherlands To Come Live With Us. Now She's Alive And Kicking

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#42 Before And After Adoption

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#43 Baby Bandit Before He Found His Forever Home

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#44 Our Airbnb Host In Bali Rescued Little Benji Off The Streets, 6 Months Apart

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#45 Before And After Photos Show How Far A Puppy Has Recovered After Being Rescued Off A Busy Interstate Only 30 Days Prior.

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#46 We Found Charlie In A Pile Of Trash, Abused And Nearly Dead. Fast Forward A Few Months, And He Is Happily Playing Dress Up With His Foster Family

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#47 One Year, 30lbs, And Lots Of Memories Later

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#48 Before And After Adoption

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#49 Butters. Before And After Adoption

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#50 Before And After

#51 Adopting Leah Didn't Change The World, But It Definitely Changed Her World!

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#52 Before And After Adoption

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#53 Here's My Pupper, Sanchez, When I Saw Him At The Shelter Vs 2 Days Later On His Freedom Ride Home. He Just Looked So Sad Plus He's 6-7 Years Old, So He Wasn't The First Pick For Everyone. As Soon As I Saw Him, Though, I Knew He Was Gunna Come Home With Me

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#54 Before And After Adoption. What A Difference A Few Months Make!

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#55 6 Months After Being Rescued From An Abusive Home, Meet Maverick

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#56 I Thought I’d Share A Before And After Of These Rescue Brothers

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#57 I’m Sorry I Don’t Know Your Real Birthday But I’m Happy To Celebrate A Year With You

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#58 This Is Bowie. He Lived On The Streets Of Greece For 3 Years. He Was Shot With A Shotgun By An Unknown Man On April 27th 2017. Unfortunately Not All Of The 20 Bullets Could Be Removed But They’re Not Life Threatening. He Is So Happy And Thankful To Live A Normal Life

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#59 Before And 1 Week After. 10/10 Good Boy

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#60 Before And After Adoption

#61 "Looking At Penny Tonight And Can’t Believe That Just One Month Ago She Was A Little 7 Pound Baby Scared To Go Outside"

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#62 Ozzy The Island Doggo

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#63 Top Left Is Florence When She Was Brought To The Shelter, Top Right Is The Day I Adopted Her, And Bottom Is Her Now!

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#64 Before And After Adoption

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#65 The Day I Brought Him Vs Two Years Later. What A Difference

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#66 My Husky Was So Sad And Scared. As Soon As He Met His New Sister He Became The Most Happy Loving Boy Ever!

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#67 Before And After Adoption. There Was A Happy, Lovable Dog Hidden Behind All That Fear

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#68 Before And After Adoption

#69 Before/After Adoption

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#70 Roxx After 4 Weeks Of Care

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#71 Our Before And After Of Our Sweet Pup Reese

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#72 From Starving Street Pup To Happy And Healthy. Meet Scrappy

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#73 This Is Bodie! He Was Found With Cuts And Bruises, And Has Wonkey Hind Legs From Some Old Trauma. Here He Is Two Months After Adoption - The Happiest Pup Alive

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#74 Before And After Adoption - Little Foot

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#75 This Is Edgar Before And After Getting Adopted. (My First Shelter Pup, Steve, Is In The Back There)

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#76 Cooper Was Found Locked In A Warehouse And In Organ Failure From Eating Rat Poison. Going On 4 Years Later And He's Turned Into A Fluffy Happy Guy

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#77 Boris, My Wonder-Dog

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#78 My Mom Adopted This Baby Girl!

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#79 Top Left: Sierra The Day We Found Her On The Road. Top Right: Sierra The Day We Adopted Her Two Weeks Later. She Is 10 Years Old. Bottom Left: Sierra That Same Day In Her New House. Bottom Right: Sierra Now. 25 Pounds Lost And Moving Much Easier. Happy With Me In Bed And Her New Life

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#80 Ride Home: Excited But Confused About This Strange Woman Who Made Him Wear A Doggie Seatbelt

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#81 Before And After Adoption

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#82 It's Been A Couple Days And Sammy Is Doing Great! Only A Few Days And She's Already Improving!

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#83 Just Over A Year Since We Adopted This Polar Bear! Could Not Be Happier

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#84 Before And After He Left The Shelter

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#85 Before & After Adoption. Even With Pneumonia, Our 1.5 Year Old Shelter Rescue Seems To Be Adjusting Well To Her New Home

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#86 The Difference A Month Makes Before And After Adoption

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#87 Days After Being Abused And Abandoned Vs 1.5 Years Later, Spreading That Infectious Smile And Learning To Trust Again

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#88 Happy Adoption Day Roofus! Before And After

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#89 Before And After Adoption

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#90 From Shelter Pet To Dog's Paradise: Meet Chicken Biscuit

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#91 Before And After Adoption (Dak)

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#92 One Year Ago Today, I Found This Little Lady Wandering Around In The Rain. 8 Days Later, She Came Home From The Shelter With Me And Has Been By My Side Ever Since. Meet Olive

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#93 Here Is A Picture Of Me From When I Got Adopted From The Pound. And A Picture Of Me Today With All My Babies

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#94 Bringing Sophie Home Two Years Ago Vs Now - A Trouble Making Boat Dog

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#95 When We Got Murphy As A Foster He Was Bald In Spots, Bleeding, Withdrawn... Fast Forward A Few Short Weeks And Our Foster Failure Turned Into One Of The Best Dogs We’ve Ever Known

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#96 My Little Princess Molly One Day After I Rescued Her From A Shelter (I Got Her When She Was 1 1/4 And She Had Already Lived In 4 Houses) Compared To Her Nowadays!

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#97 Lucky The Dog Before And After Her Adoption Today In Omaha

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#98 The Day She Was Found Roaming Around The Station And Today, Happy In Her New Home. Just Look At That Face

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#99 Rufus Was Adopted 4 Years Ago From A Local Shelter, And It Looks Like He Has Been Doing Great Since!

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#100 Before And After Adoption

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#101 Michick Found A New Home

#102 "Here's The Day My Mom Picked Me Up And Then Me Again A Couple Weeks Ago"

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#103 From Scruffy And Scared To Happy And Loved, Harper

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#104 He Was Found Tied Up To The Fence In The Cold, Pouring Rain For Days. Then He Went To The Shelter And Got All Cleaned Up To Come Home With Us! Meet Our Bubba

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#105 My Little Nugget Before & After Adoption

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#106 Less Than 24 Hours Off Death Row. Cricket Is Loving The Sunshine

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#107 Found Scooter On The Highway Outside My House 7 Months Ago. He's The Happiest Pup Around These Days

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#108 Wilson, Before & After Adoption

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#109 My Pup Oakley The First Day I Got Her To Today One Month After. I Wasn't Intending To Adopt When I Went In That Day But I'm So Glad I Did

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#110 Our Rescue Bullmastiff Pickle When We First Saw Her In She Shelter Vs. The Car Ride To Her New Home

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#111 Zoe. Before And After Adoption

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#112 Eska Was Only 30lbs When I Picked Her Up, Now She’s A Healthy Husky At 55lbs. The Shelter Said That She Was Painfully Shy. She Hasn’t Been Shy Since The Day I Got Her!

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#113 Before And After Adoption

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#114 Before And After Adoption

#115 Before/After Adoption For My Girlfriend's Dog

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#116 Before And After Adoption

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#117 Our Own Before And After Adoption

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#118 Maggie Before & After We Adopted Her

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#119 Our Lily... Left Pic Is Adoption Day... Right Pic Is A Week Later

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#120 The Day The Rescue Center Found My Ryder And Him With Me Now

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