In the US, approximately 6.3 million companion animals enter shelters every year (of those, approximately 3.1 million are dogs and 3.2 million are cats). Some estimate that this number has declined from approximately 7.2 million in 2011.
To both celebrate the improvement and remind ourselves that we can still do better, we at Bored Panda are continuing our monthly series, showcasing the sweetest newly adopted pet pictures we can find.
Continue scrolling to meet the growing families, and for more feels, take a look at our earlier collections: September, August, July.
#1 We Adopted Luna Last Week And She Had Her First Grooming Appointment Today. I’m Not Sure We Got The Same Dog Back

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#2 Rescued This Older Gal Recently
This is Molli. She’s 13 and this is the first time she snuggled with me like this since I got her

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#3 Not Only Is He Illegally Small, But This Is The First Brown Cat Our Rescue Has Ever Pulled Out Of Thousands! How Cool Is He?

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#4 I Adopted The Shyest Cat At The Shelter And They Said He May Never Warm Up To Humans. We Are Doing Good

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#5 Couldn’t Decide Which To Adopt, So I Kept The Family Together & Adopted All 3

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#6 I Heard A Kitten Crying Through An Open Window Last Night. I Think He’s Glad To Be Rescued

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#7 Rescued This Little Guy From The Hood Of A Car A Few Days Ago

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#8 My GF Recently Adopted Old Man Sampson(18) He’s Mostly Def And His Back Legs Are Getting Worse, But He Still Loves Sniffing Around And Going For Walkies

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#9 I Volunteer At A Shelter And Had Managed To Refrain From Adopting A Dog For Years, But A Month Ago This Girl Instantly Obliterated My Resolve. Her Adoption Is Finalized Tomorrow

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#10 We Adopted Flower A Few Weeks Ago After First Fostering Because We “Weren’t Ready For Another Dog”. She Very Much Loves My Boyfriend And Also Sits Like This

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#11 This Is Jagger At The Saveafox Domestic Fox Rescue. He Just Got A Pumpkin As A Treat

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#12 My Smol Rescue, I’m In Love

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#13 Adopted A New Kitten And My Void Instantly Accepted Him!

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#14 We Adopted A Very Shy Kitten Last Sunday. This Morning He Came Up To Me And Sat On My Lap All On His Own For The First Time

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#15 We Just Adopted This Goofy Big Boy Named Barnacle – 15 Weeks Old And Bigger Than Our Two Year Old Cat!

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#16 Jellybean Rescued My Husband This Weekend And Now They Are Inseparable

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#17 I Posted A Few Days Ago About Old Man Earl At The Shelter I Volunteer At
Well I adopted him today. He is skeletal and I think he needs a sweater. So far he enjoys squirrel watching on the open window sill

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#18 Flora Was Rescued From Neglectful Owners And Due To Illness Can’t Close Her Mouth Fully. Now She Has A Perma-Blep, Good Thing She Doesn’t Seem To Care

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#19 Recently Rescued This Little Old Lady And From The Looks Of It She Loves Car Rides

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#20 Rescued This Kitten From Behind A Dumpster, Meet Mittens!

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#21 This Illegally Smol Criminal Has Been Living In My Back Yard. No One Wants To Adopt Her So I Guess She Is Now My Illegally Smol Criminal

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#22 A Pile Of Rescue Voidlings

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#23 This Little Guy Just Adopted Us… Walked In To The House Right Behind Me

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#24 Adopted The Goodest Boy Today

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#25 This Is My Grandderp, Leo. My Husband Rescued Him Right After This Picture Was Taken

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#26 George Is The Name Of The Little Kitten That My Sister Adopted
When I enter the room, it waits for me hidden to play with its little claws and teeth. I have a feeling that when it grows up it will be terrible but it doesn’t matter, my heart is yours

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#27 My Rescue Overlord Loaf

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#28 Just A Little Rescue Cat. She Is Wonderful

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#29 Passionfruit Wants To Thank Everyone For Supporting Our Rescue

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#30 Our Little Rescue. She’s 5 Weeks Old With Development Of A 3 Week Old . She Was Also The Runt Of The Litter

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#31 My Life Has Become So Much Brighter Since I Adopted Sofi

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#32 I Can’t Believe You Adopted Us Both! Happiness Will Rule After The Shock Wears Off

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#33 He Was A Stray I Found Outside Our House, And I Fed Him. A Little While Later, He Dozed Off On My Lap. I Decided To Adopt This Tiny Fella

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#34 My 4 Rescues

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#35 This Is My Sweet Foster That I Ended Up Adopting
She was found starving with her siblings in a container at a week old. What color and pattern is her coat? She is now 2.5 months old and seems to me like a snowshoe/tabby to me because she has white boots and stripes

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#36 This Is Piper. She Showed Up On My Aunt’s Property And Decided To Adopt Us. I Stopped By To See My Aunt And Gave This Girl Some Head Massage. She Passed Out Like That

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#37 Just Adopted This Fluffy Old Lady With A Little White Mustache!

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#38 Adopted These Two Today

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#39 Adoption Day For Our New Sic!

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#40 Can’t Tell If I Adopted A Rabbit Or A Cat

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#41 New Pup Rescued – This Is Rori!

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#42 I Finally Adopted My First Kitten. This Is Tofu And I Love Him So Much It Hurts

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#43 Adopted A New Baby Today, Her Name Is Fran

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#44 Oh Gosh I Rescued A Vampire! What Do I Do?!

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#45 I Adopted A Fur-Baby 2 Weeks Ago

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#46 Today We Adopted Our Second Greyhound, Lily. I Think Her And Hank Will Get Along Just Fine

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#47 Officially Adopted Our New Baby & Brought Him Home Today!! He’s So Excited To Be Home & Such A Sweetheart

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#48 Thought I Should Share My 4 Recently Adopted Babies

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#49 Our Sic We Rescued A Month Ago. Named Her Maybelline. “Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Maybelline.”

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#50 Detained With The Evidence Still On His Face!
Our first rescue bottle baby ♡ approx 2.5 – 3 weeks old

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