If you want a pet — any kind of pet — perhaps the best place to find it is at an animal shelter.
Some people choose to spend hundreds — even thousands — of dollars on an animal that has been specifically bred to be a certain size or color. But animal shelters all around the world are full of adorable, affordable pets that are desperately searching for someone to love them, and someone they can love in return.
Animal rescues often have animals with a less than perfect pedigree — like this kitten in a wheelchair — so they sometimes have to get creative.
Animal rescue volunteers at the Humane Society of Utah recently came up with a brilliant way to help find a warm and loving home for some of their furry inhabitants — they put them in a photo booth and let them ham it up in front of the camera.
Scroll through below for a look at these photo booth pups that are trying to pose their way to adoption!
The dogs — like Ranger, shown above — were placed in a photo booth to capture and showcase their winning personalities.
As anyone who has adopted a shelter pet knows, being without a family doesn't mean there's something wrong with the animal — like Abby, shown above. It just means they haven't found the right human to love yet.
These adorable, spontaneous pictures show the intuitive, relatable side of shelter dogs.
They can make almost as many facial expressions as we can! (Of course, some of them, like Rosco here, needed to be tossed a treat first.)
Photos of the pets — like dynamic duo Cookie and Patty here — are meant to inspire as many people as possible to choose a shelter pet. After all, how could anyone turn their backs on these precious faces?
It is all part of the goal to give folks a chance to fall in love with these beautiful creatures, like Bit 'O Honey, shown above, named as such because he's so darn sweet.
And if you loved these dog photo booth pictures, we've got good news.
The shelter that took these pictures has a full book coming out in May 2016, featuring over 100 never-before-seen photo booth images and stories.
A portion of proceeds will benefit the Humane Society of Utah and Best Friends Animal Society, an organization that focused on stopping the killing of nearly 4 million pets in shelters all across America.
What do you think of this unique idea for finding homes for shelter pets? Let us know in the comments.
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