Animal Welfare Professionals

We are exploring a simple, mobile-friendly record for dogs living in encampments-something multiple organizations could update from the field with the dog's profile, caretaker, location, visit history, spay/neuter status, and a very visible "Due / Next Step." Has anyone in the Maddie's community built or used an application like this, whether in shelter software, Airtable/AppSheet, or a custom tool?  We will look at AnimalFirst or ShelterLuv as candidates, but the focus is spay-neuter and outreach actions over adoptions, etc. Thanks in advance for any help. 

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Peter Buck | Cortex | SF Bay Area CA
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Have a look at Shelterly. It's designed for multi-agency disaster response, so that collaborative feature might fit your needs. It's not meant for long-term record keeping, so it might not work for you. But worth a look.

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Julie Levy, DVM
Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida
Maddie's Million Pet Challenge
https://sheltermedicine.vetmed.ufl.edu
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This is a great idea!!  I'm not aware of anything, but have you reached out to groups that might track these things on the human side?  They might have a template or even an app that could be used as a template for the animal side.  Ideally, in the OneHealth approach to things, it would be an app that could track both.

Bryan

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Bryan Langlois
Medical Director
Spay/Neuter Save Network
PA
"Greatness is a title never to be self imposed"
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Hi Peter, this looks really interesting. I am a trainer but also founder of a nonprofit. Our mission is to keep people an pets together. I work with pets of the unhoused population here in Davis via a free community vet clinic. People take their dogs to the clinic for medical check-up and I help with behavior services as needed as well as provide no cost safe equipments. Last year I gave out 100 harnesses and leashes. These folks are transient, I might see them once and so everything has to take place when I saw them.  One thing I discovered is that everyone has a phone so  your mobile app  might be very helpful . I also want to say that it took me 6 months to earn their trust so some may find the app helpful, others may be reluctant.  Still I love to learn more about your great idea.  email: connect@thelifeofkai.org Julie @ The Life of Kai

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Julielani Chang
The Life of Kai: Compassion Connections Inc.
Davis CA
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Hi, you might reach out to Annie & Millie's place, I don't know if they use anything like that but they are a fantastic organization.

https://www.annieandmillies.org/

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Sincerely,
Johanna Spielman
Founder of Jamie Brianna's Legacy Fund
https://jamiebriannaslegacyfund.org/
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Peter - 

Thank you for inquiring about this.  I am from Rogue Valley Street Dogs in Southern Oregon .  We have the same focus and have yet to find a good mobile-friendly system. I'd be very interested to learn more.

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Laurie Cuddy
Rogue Valley Street Dogs
https:www.roguevalleystreetdogs.org
541-414-3295
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I would approach it through a map-based system. Something very visual as the first screen.

Then people could search by geographic area first. In other words, I would move from the most abstract level to the most specific one: starting from location, and then narrowing down to the individual dog, care taker, etc. 

I would also use visual markers on the map. For example:

• Red = urgent case

• Blue = currently in progress

• Green = completed case, and it can be updated in case the dog-family needs another visit or whatever. 

Once you identify the marker, you click on it and access all the detailed information about that specific dog and case history. 

Looking at the first application you mentioned, I feel there is too much data and too many graphics displayed at once.

I think it should be designed primarily for mobile use, where people can quickly navigate without having to scroll through excessive information.

That is just my perspective.

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Nadia Barreiro
Journalist - volunteer
Kismet
LA
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Actually, I have been wanting to build something similar in New Orleans for community cats.

There are simply too many of them, and often you have no way of knowing whether a cat has already been spayed or neutered.

I have personally set up traps to catch one cat, only to find that a completely different cat entered the trap, and it turned out that it had already been sterilized.

This creates a lot of inefficiency in the field.

Cat overpopulation is a serious issue in New Orleans, and one of the biggest challenges is the lack of a coordinated system that allows people to know which animals have already been treated and which ones still need intervention.

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Nadia Barreiro
Journalist - volunteer
Kismet
LA
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