Before-And-After Puppy Adoption Pics Show The Difference One Day Makes In A Pet’s Life

[joeybee12]

If you were looking for just about the happiest way possible to close out your Friday, look no further. After a tough week, it doesn’t get any better than pictures of the before and after for dog and cat adoptions to bring a smile to your face.

The gallery of happy pups and kittens came to us by way of imgur user thund3rbolt, and it’s pretty freakin’ genius. This has been something of a trend on Reddit for a while, but we hadn’t seen anybody bringing all of the pictures together. Now thund3rbolt has, and we’re all happier for it.


Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1741632/before-and-after-puppy-adoption-pics-show-the-difference-one-day-makes-in-a-pets-life/#RtgA5yAHbeU0ZUy8.99

[shenmue]

1. Squee!

[Mnemosyne]

2. Beautiful kids! Definite squeeable! nt

[tblue37]

3. Wonderful! nt

[Thinkingabout]

4. My rescue went from a sad eyed, scared of abuse and now she tells me when to go to bed

And anything else she needs to take command.

[MissDeeds]

5. Awww

Such sweet happy critters. Kudos and hugs to the kind and loving souls who gave them forever homes.

[snacker]

6. The power of love!

[smirkymonkey]

7. Awww!

What sweet babies! All the best to the kind souls who rescued these little angels!

[Omaha Steve]

8. Wonderful

K&R!

[Curmudgeoness]

9. Wow. Seeing it in this way brings it all home. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. love it!

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. more pics

[sabrina 1]

16. Those are beautiful! The first one has a real smile on his face. So cute.

[pnwmom]

37. The middle pictures in this group are of the same puppy first pictured in the OP --

first photo on the left.

But a different photo -- one that actually looks like the puppy -- is shown here as the next-day photo.

This pair of photos looks more like the same dog than the first pair shown in the OP.

[Contrary1]

12. I'm gonna add another...

He had been at the city pound for 4 months...a bit homely, for sure. I think the only reason he survived was that he had such a wonderful personality. The staff at the shelter loved him.

My daughter and son-in-law just dropped by to "look". They weren't in the market for another dog, their sweet Ashie had died just a couple months earlier.

Well...here's Hank:

First day in new home:

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And now, one of the happiest pups ever:

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[BrotherIvan]

14. Go Hank!

[mythology]

17. There are no homely dogs

Even the dog I've had that was the least traditionally attractive (she was an abandoned dog we took in who was arthritic, had a partially paralyzed throat and old wounds on both eyes that we initially mistook for tumors) was attractive in the way she so desperately loved any attention and wanted to be part of the family.

[catbyte]

25. I vehemently disagree! Hank is a VERY handsome guy. I love the one-ear-up-one-ear-down look.

I hope it's not the result of abuse, but even if it was, Hank looks like he's in heaven now!

[SMC22307]

38. He's not homely!

Looks like you hit the jackpot, Hank.

[Rhythm]

42. Those ears...

I have a friend with a rescued pibbie-mix who has that same one-up-one-down ear-thing going on, and she never fails to make me smile!

Tell Hank that Novae says hello!!!

[Contrary1]

45. Ok, already. I take it back...Hank ain't homely.

The folks at the shelter thought that his looks were what kept him from finding a new home. Four months is a long time...especially in doggie years.

Hank is just such a sweetie. He loves going to the dog park. He met a new canine best buddy there, and times are coordinated so they will be at the park to romp and play together. A close eye is needed, as Hank tends to "borrow" toys from the other pups, showing no guilt or remorse whatsoever.

If more than a couple days pass without his play time, he fetches his own leash, and drops it at my daughter's feet. Given the cold weather here lately, he is one restless pup, but they take him whenever they can.

Don't ever buy a dog...just go to the local shelter and look for the one who seems to have given up. That was Hank six months ago. And now, you can just see the love they share.

[840high]

13. Love!!!!

[BrotherIvan]

15. Someone posted this link to a petition in the comments so I'm adding it

It is asking for laws that require all animals sold to be spayed/neutered. As you know, any pet from the shelter or rescue organizations must be spayed or neutered before they are adopted unless they are too young and then you have to sign a paper promising to do it. It would be wonderful it all animals were required to be fixed as part of licensing a dog or getting a cat. There are far too many unwanted pets and daily I see uncut dogs walking with their owners or wandering the neighborhood. It would be wonderful to cut down on the population of dogs and cats that are being put to sleep in shelters.

https://www.change.org/p/congress-require-cats-and-dogs-with-few-exceptions-to-be-spayed-and-neutered-before-sold

These pictures of happy pets going home are just the best!!!!

[pnwmom]

39. So eventually there would be no dogs or cats after ALL were spayed or neutered.

I don't think that's something most people would want.

They don't need to expand spay and neuter programs to all dogs; they just need effective programs in every town. In Seattle we have very few dogs in the shelters anymore -- so few that we import them from other states, and some of those states (like California) import them from other countries.

[lib87]

18. I Love It!

These pics are great.

[Blue_Tires]

19. Our adoptee was pretty shy and scared

I think it was about a week before I heard her bark for the first time...

[calimary]

31. Our Goldie was so broken down and seemed so sad and scared -

she didn't even hold her head all the way up. For two days, after we brought her home! All she wanted to do was hide under something. So we fixed up a nice, comfy hidey-hole, and she took to it immediately. And she stayed there until she started feeling better and more comfortable, and from the original looks of her when we got her - more confident that we weren't going to hurt her. It was so sad when we first got her. Skin and bone! NO exaggeration, either. You could see every rib under her skin. You could see every bit of her backbone along her back. Scrawny and banged up and sad.

Now she's plump and sassy and happy, holds her head up proudly, and even exhibits quite a strong and well-developed sense of humor! She's a happy dog. Quite visibly. And so are we!

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(Drive me to the store, Goldie!)

[elehhhhna]

20. top pics a Carolina Dog. like my Lily.

[MoonRiver]

21. Love it!

[WhiteTara]

22. All our pets are rescued from some life problem

and latest went from not being able to stand touch to a little pet hound. Finally, Picabo is learning to purr.

[polly7]

23. Ohhhhh .....

My Obie looked just like that, afraid, unsure how to act, afraid to approach his new feeding bowls. It's taken almost a year for me to be able to swat a fly without him running to the corner shaking. He's a huge Great Pyrenees cross ... but obviously at only two years old now, had some rough times before the Humane Society picked him up as a stray.

[MineralMan]

24. It took way longer than a day for our

lab rescue beagle from the Beagle Freedom Project. It's been a year, now, and he's much, much better, but still has psychological issues from three years spent in a cage and in a lab.

Sam's a great dog, and is doing very well, but it has been a slow process to release his inner beagle.

[catbyte]

27. Thanks for the Sam update. I remember reading your posts after you adopted him. Beagle Freedom

Project videos always makes me turn on the ol' waterworks. Bless you and dear little Sam.

[MineralMan]

28. Sam is steadily becoming a real personality.

His latest thing is baying when it's time for a walk. He only does it with me, and I bay right back at him. His tail is going a mile a minute, as we exchange dog noises and get him hooked up with his leash. He's quite a character now, but it took quite some time for him to warm up to me. I suspect he had a male lab handler in his first three years. He's figuring out that I'm not the same person now. We're getting along better and better all the time.

[catbyte]

29. Oh, that's terrific news! It's just heartbreaking seeing what those little beagles went through.

It's even more heartbreaking that they're chosen over other breeds because of their docile, trusting nature. What a betrayal. I'm so glad that you're bonding, and that you two have developed a special "thing."

[Liberal_in_LA]

41. my rescue cat took months to lighten up. years later she still shows signs

Of trauma from her life in a hoarders house w 40 other cats

[chrisa]

26. The last one is like, "Freedommmm!"

[PasadenaTrudy]

30. Mine hid under the bed

for almost a week, lol!

[Warpy]

32. The top one is really dramatic

From a depressed "Oh, no, what's going to happen to me?" to "HEY! I GOT PEOPLE!"

Rescued cats, especially adults, are slower to warm up since they have to check out the new jungle first, but it's just as dramatic.

[pnwmom]

35. If you look carefully at the top two pictures, they don't appear to be the same dog.

They're certainly not of the same dog taken only a day apart. Look how much thinner the legs look in the second picture. The first picture has a puppy's thicker build; the second does not.

But if you look at the sixth picture (click on the last tiny photo at the bottom), you see the same puppy again (the photo on the left). It's next-day photo does look like the same puppy -- only a lot happier

[backwoodsbob]

33. fear the beard

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Sorry...I dont have a before.

That is happy....our most desperate rescue ever.She was one of over 100 dogs rescued from a puppy mill...when we got her she spent her first two weeks hiding under the bed terrified of everyone.

Now she is our biggest source of attention pain

on edit...I DO have a pic of her when we picked her up
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[TNNurse]

34. Years ago

We had a dog show up all scrawny and bedraggled. It took us awhile to get her near enough to touch. She broke down and ate a piece of pancake out of my hand. We finally got her in the house and well fed. After a couple of weeks we felt safe enough to take her to the vet ( we thought she might get upset and run away). She was terrified of new people and shivered.

On our first trip in the car to visit family, she huddled in a corner of the backseat. She would not eat, drank a little and finally peed while on the leash. It is a nine hour car trip.

On the way home, I looked into the backseat and she was stretched out from door to door as if to acknowledge, we were safe, we were not going to leave her anywhere new and that she was home. For years if we took her anywhere, the car remained her safe spot.

We had her about 12 years before we lost her to cancer. She was my constant companion during my cancer treatment and I swore I would not put a dog through chemo and I did not. She could not understand why we would make her so sick. It has been not quite two years and I still miss her. My husband does not think he can stand the loss of another dog, but I hope one will show up and take us in again.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

36. Remember that this is a fairytale, and if you adopt a pet it's very unlikely to be this easy.

Pets take a lot of hard work, especially ones that have been badly treated.

Don't expect to take a cat or dog home from a shelter, say "I wuv you!" and have if immediately be fine. It *does* happen, occasionally, I'm sure, but it's not something you can rely on.

[SMC22307]

40. Remember the story of Nico?

http://www.karmamissingpetnetwork.com/pet/57469

Thank God for good people.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. That is awesome.

I wish I had a good 'before' picture of ours, but it's the same exact story.

[Beringia]

44. thanks