Pawsition

For rescues & shelters

Reunite them before they reach rehoming.

Rescues take in thousands of animals that already have an owner searching for them a few streets away. Pawsition checks every intake against pets reported lost nearby and surfaces the match instantly — so a reunion happens in minutes, freeing the kennel space and staff time a long hold would have cost.

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~2,300
cats reunited per year by Cats Protection alone
Cats Protection, 2025
42%
of council strays now pass to welfare orgs — more than go home
Dogs Trust Stray Dog Survey 2023-24
<2%
of recovered cats came back via a shelter — most found by local search
Huang et al., Animals, 2018

See the interface

The intake console. · RSPCA Bristol · pilot

Demo · sample data
pawsition.softwareforge.cc/console/intake
Pawsition rescue
Arrivals
Reunite queue
In care
Outcomes
31
reunited before rehoming (YTD)
214
kennel-days saved
1.2km
avg match distance
Today's arrivals
IN-7714Tabby cat, femalefound Redfield · 18 minMATCH
IN-7713Staffie cross, malewarden drop-off · 1.4 hrNO MATCH
IN-7710Lurcher, malefound Easton · 3 hrNO MATCH
IN-7705DSH cat, malepublic hand-in · 5 hrMATCH
Possible owner match · IN-7714
“Mittens” · reported lost 2 days ago
1.2 km away · tabby female · microchip on file
Notify ownerNot a match
intake ↔ last-seen

The problem

The animal in your kennel may already have an owner two streets away.

For the first time, more council strays now pass to welfare organisations than are returned to their owners. Many of those animals are loved and microchipped — but the chip is only checked on intake, the details are often stale, and the owner is searching Facebook, not your kennel list. Every day that gap stays open is a kennel-day spent, a welfare cost carried, and a step closer to rehoming a pet that was never abandoned.

What you get

An intake console that finds the owner first.

Auto-match on intake

Every animal you log is checked against pets reported lost nearby — by area, species and description — and flagged the moment there's a likely owner.

One-click owner notify

Confirm a match and the owner is alerted instantly through the same network, with masked contact. No phone-tag, no stale registry.

Reunite-before-rehome

Clear the genuine reunions out of your intake fast, so kennel space and staff time go to the animals that truly need rehoming.

Outcome evidence

Track reunions, kennel-days saved and time-to-reunion for funders, trustees and welfare reporting — exportable.

Free to the public

Owners and finders pay nothing, so the network around your branch gets denser at no cost to you — more eyes, more matches.

Works with your chip checks

Sits alongside the microchip scan you already do — it adds the visual + location layer the chip can't provide.

What's next

Unlocks when you sign.

Branch catchment boundary

Draw your branch's catchment; intake auto-matches and reporting scope to it.

Multi-branch rollout

Regional view across branches, with per-branch outcome dashboards.

Funder evidence pack

Quarterly print-ready reunion + cost-avoidance report for grant and trustee reporting.

Microchip-registry link

Optional lookup against the national chip databases once the integration lands.

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