RescueRef

The app for modern animal shelters.

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Essential Information

Information about every animal.

RescueRef synchronizes with the record management system used by the animal shelter.

Privileged or protected information is left out so all volunteers and staff can use RescueRef.

Browse

Browse animals by location.

View animals that are off-site or in foster homes.

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Visual Inventory

Collections of animals are presented visually for fast scanning of browse or search results.

Dog walkers quickly see which animals are in a location.

Photo team quickly sees which animals need better photographs.

Advanced Search

Find animals by adding or removing facets.

Show me the dogs that are good with cats and have been at the shelter the longest.

Show me the dogs in this room that are at my training level for handling.

Show me the cats that have arrived at the shelter in the past 72 hours.

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One-Touch Search

Save complex searches.

Run any saved search with a single touch.

Tag Board

Every animal has a virtual marker board for crowd-sourcing important tips and information.

Hash tags placed in the tag board can be used when searching.

For instance, a #HB tag might be used by dog walkers to identify who needs to get out first thing in the morning.

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Follow Animals

Following an animal causes any changes for that animal to show up in a non-intrusive feed of notices.

Browsing the notices is a quick way to get caught up on animals of interest.

Notes

Every animal has a feed of notes.

Official shelter notes come from the shelter’s record management system.

Volunteers and foster parents contribute more notes to create a rich collection of observations about the animal over time.

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Mentions

Notes and tag boards can contain mentions of %animals or @people.

Person mentions generate a notice and may be used to alert a person to a particular note or animal.

Enrichment Tracking

Record enrichment activities at the time or afterward.

Easy editing anytime to correct mistakes.

Different enrichment choices based on the category of animal.

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Enrichment History

See recent enrichment activity for any animal or collection of animals.

Choose log view or a visualization.

Historical enrichment data augments other data to support modeling and inference.

Insight

Investigate a wide array of shelter performance indicators across different categories.

  • Inflow volume
  • Outflow volume
  • Length of stay distribution
  • Live release rate
  • Redemption rate
  • Adoption churn
  • And more...
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Visual Trends

View twelve-month rolling trend for any performance indicator.

Stays

History of stays at the shelter laid out visually.

Shows length of each stay and time between stays.

Shows time in foster home versus time in shelter kennel.

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