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Before And After Pictures Of Adopted Animals. A welcoming place to share before and after photos of pet adoption. Founded 2015 · 1.2M members

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.1K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
9.1Kbest post
177most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Gallery 84% Image 10% Video 4% Text 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Dog 105 Cat 104 Small Pet 4 Cow 2 Other 1 Meta 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

1 year with sweet Willa

↑ 9.1K 💬 96 gallery 2026

Little Owen Meany before and after. He was so beat up, he is 7yo now and I hope he’s having a good life. TW: some blood - from a healing scab

↑ 5.9K 💬 76 gallery 2026

2 months ago, we met her living on a property with fleas and dirty, and with an inflamed neck. Look at her now! Meet Penny

↑ 4.9K 💬 83 gallery 2025

Meet Summer! Found on the streets in 2022, thriving in 2026

↑ 4.7K 💬 102 gallery 2026

Fell in love with the saddest looking cat in the shelter on Saturday. He finally came home today and totally catfished me.

↑ 4.6K 💬 55 gallery 2026

Surrendered by owner without telling the shelter she was dying. $15,000 and three months of recovery later, my sweet Honey.

↑ 4.4K 💬 71 gallery 2026

From morbidly obese to hitting her goal weight and living her best life!

↑ 4.2K 💬 106 gallery 2026

Our former stray boy Adonis, almost a year apart!

↑ 4K 💬 24 image 2026

Almost two years since I found my soul dog at the most crowded shelter in phoenix arizona

↑ 3.9K 💬 55 gallery 2026

Dog I found was attacked, had broken foot, and two weeks later pic

↑ 3.9K 💬 39 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BeforeNAfterAdoption, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/BeforeNAfterAdoption?
r/BeforeNAfterAdoption ("Before And After Pictures Of Adopted Animals") describes itself this way: A welcoming place to share before and after photos of pet adoption. It was founded in 2015 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/BeforeNAfterAdoption have?
r/BeforeNAfterAdoption has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.1K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BeforeNAfterAdoption?
"1 year with sweet Willa" reached 9.1K upvotes and 96 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BeforeNAfterAdoption.
What subreddits are similar to r/BeforeNAfterAdoption?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/BeforeNAfterAdoption?
Of the posts we hold, 84% are gallery posts and 10% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BeforeNAfterAdoption?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 20:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BeforeNAfterAdoption?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BeforeNAfterAdoption has 2.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 28 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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