For UK councils
Reunite more dogs before they reach the kennel.
UK councils handled 36,965 stray dogs in 2023/24 and reunited only 39% with their owners — down from 54% two years earlier. Pawsition gives your wardens a live incident map, chip-scan lookup, dispatch tools, and the public sighting network that finds pets before they enter statutory kennelling.
See the interface
The council ops console. · Bristol City Council · pilot
The problem
The recovery system depends on physical capture.
A microchip can only help once a stray has been caught, transported, scanned and matched against a registry whose owner details are correct — and only ~38% of chipped strays in 2023/24 had correct owner details on the chip. Cats are barely caught at all. The cost of that gap lands on your wardens, your kennelling budget, and your residents. Pawsition closes the gap with a free public sighting network that gets to the pet before the kennel does.
What you get
An operations console that pays for itself.
Live incident map
Every active lost pet and sighting in your boundary, on one live map. Pulses on incoming sightings via SSE. No refresh needed.
Warden dispatch
Assign an incident to a warden with one click. Route, status, and resolution tracked end-to-end.
Chip-scan lookup
Microchip number lookup against registered pets in your area — turn a scan into an owner contact in seconds.
ROI evidence
Track time-to-reunion, intakes deflected and officer hours saved. Export to a one-page PDF for committee reports.
Multi-tenant boundaries
Each authority sees its own boundary. Shared incidents (boundary overlap) reconcile automatically when one party resolves.
Free for residents
Owners pay nothing. Spotters need no account. The map gets denser at no marketing cost to you.
What's next
Unlocks when you sign.
Custom service boundary
Draw your authority's boundary on the map; we scope incidents and reports to it automatically.
Pilot dashboard
Your own ROI report — reunions, intakes deflected, officer hours saved — built from your live data.
Resident comms toolkit
Co-branded leaflets, posters and email templates to promote local pet registration.
Quarterly committee report
We generate a print-ready evidence pack for your council's quarterly meeting.
Talk to us.
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