Looking for a home

A listing that travels on its own — anyone can share it, not only you.

An animal belonging to a shelter has a “Looking for a home” option. Publishing it creates a public page with its own address, a photo, an age and a town. Health records and the chip number are not on it and never will be — a public page shows only what it should.

The most important field on that page is the story. A few sentences about character decide more than breed and age together: “affectionate but timid, someone probably hit him” turns a record into a creature. Write it in your own words, imperfectly is fine. The story is saved with a button, so a half-written sentence never goes out.

Sharing the listing makes sense on social networks. When somebody posts the link on Facebook or sends it over WhatsApp, the network pulls a preview card with the animal's photo — the post then looks like a picture rather than an address.

Every published animal also appears on a shared “Looking for a home” page that anyone can find without signing in. It can be filtered by species and region, and a link to such a selection can be passed on. That is the difference from your own website: you are no longer the only one who shares.

When an animal finds a home, mark it. The listing closes, but the animal stays on your shelter page among the placed ones — how many animals you have placed is the best thing a shelter can show.