diff --git a/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py b/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py
index 0936742..37351e5 100644
--- a/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py
+++ b/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py
@@ -2,17 +2,21 @@ import socket
 
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 from requests.compat import urlparse, unquote
+
 try:
-    from requests.packages.urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
-    from requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool
+    import http.client as httplib
 except ImportError:
-    from urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
-    from urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool
+    import httplib
+
+try:
+    from requests.packages import urllib3
+except ImportError:
+    import urllib3
 
 
 # The following was adapted from some code from docker-py
-# https://github.com/docker/docker-py/blob/master/docker/unixconn/unixconn.py
-class UnixHTTPConnection(HTTPConnection):
+# https://github.com/docker/docker-py/blob/master/docker/transport/unixconn.py
+class UnixHTTPConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection, object):
 
     def __init__(self, unix_socket_url, timeout=60):
         """Create an HTTP connection to a unix domain socket
@@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ class UnixHTTPConnection(HTTPConnection):
         netloc is a percent-encoded path to a unix domain socket. E.g.:
         'http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fprofilesvc.sock/status/pid'
         """
-        HTTPConnection.__init__(self, 'localhost', timeout=timeout)
+        super(UnixHTTPConnection, self).__init__('localhost', timeout=timeout)
         self.unix_socket_url = unix_socket_url
         self.timeout = timeout
 
@@ -33,10 +37,11 @@ class UnixHTTPConnection(HTTPConnection):
         self.sock = sock
 
 
-class UnixHTTPConnectionPool(HTTPConnectionPool):
+class UnixHTTPConnectionPool(urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool):
 
     def __init__(self, socket_path, timeout=60):
-        HTTPConnectionPool.__init__(self, 'localhost', timeout=timeout)
+        super(UnixHTTPConnectionPool, self).__init__(
+            'localhost', timeout=timeout)
         self.socket_path = socket_path
         self.timeout = timeout
 
@@ -46,18 +51,34 @@ class UnixHTTPConnectionPool(HTTPConnectionPool):
 
 class UnixAdapter(HTTPAdapter):
 
-    def __init__(self, timeout=60):
+    def __init__(self, timeout=60, pool_connections=25):
         super(UnixAdapter, self).__init__()
         self.timeout = timeout
+        self.pools = urllib3._collections.RecentlyUsedContainer(
+            pool_connections, dispose_func=lambda p: p.close()
+        )
+        super(UnixAdapter, self).__init__()
 
-    def get_connection(self, socket_path, proxies=None):
+    def get_connection(self, url, proxies=None):
         proxies = proxies or {}
-        proxy = proxies.get(urlparse(socket_path.lower()).scheme)
+        proxy = proxies.get(urlparse(url.lower()).scheme)
 
         if proxy:
             raise ValueError('%s does not support specifying proxies'
                              % self.__class__.__name__)
-        return UnixHTTPConnectionPool(socket_path, self.timeout)
+
+        with self.pools.lock:
+            pool = self.pools.get(url)
+            if pool:
+                return pool
+
+            pool = UnixHTTPConnectionPool(url, self.timeout)
+            self.pools[url] = pool
+
+        return pool
 
     def request_url(self, request, proxies):
         return request.path_url
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.pools.clear()