Will fosters see only what they need?
FreeFoster care management for animal rescues, on one shared record
PawsPet is a free app for foster care management in animal rescues: the animal's record belongs to the rescue, the foster family sees it on their own phone under «Shared with me» and logs weight, treatments and activities. When the placement ends, you remove their access from «Collaborators». Two honest limits: the foster carer needs a PawsPet account, and access never expires on its own.
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- The app is free, with no subscription.
- You invite whoever you want, area by area.
- The AI prepares, you confirm.
How foster care works in PawsPet
The record stays with the association; the family hosting the animal updates it from their own phone.
The record stays with the rescue
The animal is registered from the rescue's account, which stays its owner in the app. The foster family collaborates on that one animal only: they do not see your other animals, cannot delete the record and open documents only if you allow it.
Targeted permissions for Health and Activities
For each person you choose whether they can only view or also edit, area by area: general details, Health, Activities, collaborators. Logging weight and treatments needs «Edit» on Health; «Edit» on Activities to tick off doses or log walks. No preset roles.
Weight and treatments logged by the people fostering
In «Measurements» the foster family logs weight in kg, with a photo and notes, once a day, and sees the trend on a chart. In «Diet, therapies and treatments» they enter medicines and doses, recurring if needed: each dose can become a to-do to tick off.
When the placement ends, you remove access yourself
When the animal comes back, open «Collaborators», tap the remove icon on the family's row and confirm: the record no longer opens on their phone. If it is adopted, remove them before the handover. What they logged stays in the record.
What the foster family sees
A foster family starts with «View» on Health only; if they need to tick walks and doses, you also give them «Edit» on Activities. Documents stay closed until you open them.
When fostering ends
The host can leave on their own with «Stop collaborating», or you remove them from «Collaborators». If the animal is adopted, remove volunteers and foster families before the handover.
Access does not expire by itself: it lasts until you remove it.
Shared family careWhen fostering ends in an adoption
The adoption listing starts from the record and is free. What you need to publish, how to publish in the shelter's name and how requests arrive: the path for shelters and associations is all on one page.
How to organise a foster placement in PawsPet
Register the animal from the rescue's account
In the PawsPet app, «Pets» tab, + button at the bottom right: photo, name, species and breed, general details and location, for example the foster family's name, which the list search then finds even among dozens of animals. Each animal has its own record, with health and activities kept separate.
Invite the foster family as a collaborator
Open the animal, tap the ⋮ icon at the top right, then «Collaborators» » «Add collaborator». Search by name or email (the person needs a PawsPet account) and set the permissions: they start with «View» on Health only; switch on «Edit» for Health and Activities if they will log weight and treatments.
Follow the placement and close it when it ends
The family finds the animal in their «Pets» tab under «Shared with me» and logs from the «Measurements» and «Health» tabs; you see everything in the same record. When the placement ends, go back to «Collaborators», tap the remove icon on their row and confirm: access ends immediately.
Questions about foster care in PawsPet
- Fostering is temporary care that a family gives an animal in their own home on behalf of a rescue, until it is adopted or can go back to the shelter: care, socialisation, sometimes recovery after treatment. The animal still belongs to the rescue. In PawsPet the record follows the same pattern: the rescue is the owner, the family is a collaborator.
- No. PawsPet has no subscriptions: records, collaborators, measurements and treatments cost nothing, for the rescue or for the foster family. You only pay if you book and pay for a service in the app, for example a grooming session: a €1 service fee is added (1% above €100).
- Yes: the search in «Collaborators» only finds PawsPet accounts that already exist. They just need to download the free app and sign up with email, Google or Apple; then you search for them by name or email. The public profile link is read-only and does not let anyone log weight or treatments.
- Only the animal you shared with them, under «Shared with me», with the tabs their permissions allow: always the general details; Health and Measurements or Activities if you gave them «View»; the edit buttons if you gave them «Edit»; documents only if you open them. They do not see the other animals and cannot delete the record.
- No: a collaborator you invited by hand stays until you remove them from «Collaborators», with the remove icon on their row. From then on, if they try to open the record, they read that the owner has stopped sharing this animal. If the placement continues with another family, invite the new one and remove the previous one from the same screen.
Dog shelters, cat shelters, sanctuaries and wildlife rescue: the same app
Post adoption listings
List animals for adoption, free of charge, in your organisation's name too.
Dog shelters
One record per dog, volunteers with the right permissions, free adoptions.
Cat shelters and rescues
Fast records, colonies in the Position field, kitten weights and adoptions.
Multi-species sanctuaries
Horses, donkeys and farm animals: stalls, hoof care and recurring treatments.
Wildlife rescue centres
One profile per animal in care: custom species, weight, therapies and notes.
Download PawsPet and set up your next foster placement
Free on iOS and Android. Register the animal from the rescue's account, invite the foster family and remove their access when the placement ends.
Available on iOS, Android and the web