Making it easier for humans to do right by animals.
What’s the idea?
The Animal Guide App is the go-to app for all animal-related resources, collected all in one place; so that we as humans can do our best to do right by animals. The app will be where you turn if you are walking down the street and see a bird with a broken wing and don’t know who to call, or if a stray cat arrives in your backyard and you aren’t sure what to do. It will act as an animal emergency assistant and connect you to volunteers in your community as well as animal professionals. It’s the app that will get you the best deals on pet food, dog walking or cat sitting services in your community, as well as where you can find or write veterinary reviews, and it’s also the place to connect foster or adoption-ready humans to their new best friends. If you are a new pet owner,
The Animal Guide App will provide you pet-ownership 101 courses, so you can be sure you have what you need to take on the responsibility. And if you just want a place to post and look at cute pet content without other unrelated videos popping up, you can find animal lover forums on here as well. Whenever you have a question or need any help that is animal-related, The Animal Guide App is where you can turn, bridging the gap between humans and the animals who need us in order to be happy, healthy and cared for.
Why?
Because we can do better in doing right by animals. Unfortunately a lot of us don’t currently have the education or resources we need in order to do our best for animals, which results in poor treatment or neglect, even when it’s not intentional. With The Animal Guide App, any questions you might have, or any help you need in any animal-related situation will be just a click away, resulting in better care for our furry friends in our individual communities and across the globe.
Help in Animal-Related Emergencies
The Animal Guide app will be the go-to place you turn when you have an animal-related emergency, so that you can get help for the animal in need quickly, efficiently and easily. Right now when you see something happen to an animal – like an animal getting hit by a car – or a skinny dog roaming the city by itself, most people feel bad seeing it but don’t necessarily have the time or knowledge of what to do to help. People who are good samaritans might band together and try to Google vet listings or wildlife emergency phone numbers on their phones or post to social media in these instances looking for others to help, but there is always a period of panic before it’s figured out – if anyone stops to help at all. These are valuable minutes of this animal’s life and they are desperately depending on us as humans to step up and do better, think smarter, quicker. And I want to believe that most humans want to help, but just don’t know how to. This app will be the place you turn to where you are directly connected to local assistance in case of emergencies, eliminating the “not knowing what to do” element in these instances.
Mobilizing Local Community
The Animal Guide app will allow regular people to become “Animal Community Volunteers” where you can receive alerts in your area and offer to help your neighbors with animal-related issues when they occur. Say you are walking your dog down the street and he runs off. Instead of panicking, you can open the app and put a pin to your location, pinging your local volunteer community who has signed up to receive notifications, asking this grassroots volunteer community to be on the look out for the roaming pup, with available volunteers also coming out to join you in the search in real-time. This app will build a community of people in local areas who care about animals, backed with the resources to help, and thus linking us closer together with our furry friends who need us. It will also eliminate the need to post to multiple social media accounts and bulletin platforms, as this app will become the ONE centralized place everyone turns to for animal-related topics.
Resources for Pet Owners
The Animal Guide app will also serve as a guide to provide resources and services to pet owners with quick connects and reviews for local animal-related stores and services, like pet sitting, vet services, dog walking, pet grooming, pet meetups and forums for organizing play dates or discussing sick pets, etc.
Exclusive Deals and Discounts
The app will also offer pet owners special pet-related discounts that can only be found on the app! Pet food, pet furniture and accessories, and everything you might need in order to take the best care of your pet will have special offers available which will be exclusive to users of this app.
A Platform for Volunteers
The Animal Guide app will serve as an aid for animal-related volunteers who are out there doing the hard work right now with no (former) hope on the horizon of things changing. Help is now on the way! This app will serve as a place to get funding for your cause where you can post animal-related fundraisers and receive donations going directly to your animal in need, with as many eyes on your cause as users on the app. No more posting to your (limited) social media following asking for help when you have an entire app user base at your fingertips.