Ark Metrics for associations and shelters

This page is for the people who run an association, an animal protection group or a shelter and want to see what changes in their work with Ark Metrics. Associations and protection groups coordinate volunteers, rescues, fostering and adoptions; here, on a single record.

Each animal’s journey, in a single thread

An association often keeps each animal’s journey spread across spreadsheets, messaging groups and emails. When someone leaves or changes tasks, the thread is lost. Ark Metrics brings that journey, from rescue to adoption, into a single record that is shared with the local government when both work in the same system.

Functions, by the animal’s moment

When it arrives

Animal register. One record per animal, of several species, with where it is at any time. Nobody has to ask where it ended up.

Shelter record. The centre says who it is, how much room it has left and what it needs. Visible on the municipality’s map.

When it needs a temporary home

Foster request. The animal and what is needed are described, and the homes that fit can see it. A clear agreement seals the deal.

Notice to homes. The home offered a foster request gets an automatic email. Fewer messages to chase.

When it looks for a family

Adoption listings. A public catalogue with each animal on its own page. Enquiries reach the organisation’s email.

Clear states. Each listing says whether the animal is available, reserved or adopted. What you see is what there is.

To keep the organisation going

Donations. A page with links to the platforms the organisation already uses, plus QR and poster. Easy to share at any event.

Board of animals cared for. What the organisation does, told from its own record. Transparency that encourages people to help.

Points and ranking. Recognition for volunteers based on recorded facts. A simple way to say thank you.

Permissions and change log. Everyone does their own part and it is on record. Order within the team.

Use cases

• A small protection group that lives on volunteers. The history stays on the platform, not on one phone.
• A shelter that wants to stop answering the phone. Contact, occupancy and offers in plain view.
• An association that urgently needs foster homes. The request reaches whoever can help.
• An organisation running an adoption day. Catalogue and donations, with a QR code or poster.

One animal, step by step

1. An animal arrives and is registered.
2. If it needs a temporary home, fostering is requested.
3. When it is ready, its adoption listing is published.
4. Once adopted, the listing is closed.

At each step, the platform notes who did it and when.

Local government and association, on the same data

If your organisation works with a local government, both use the same platform and each sees their own part. You can read how the administration sees it on the local governments page.

How it fits in the Zoometrics suite

Ark is the participation part of the Zoometrics suite. For an organisation, the closest ones:

• Meow Metrics: if you look after cat colonies, the technical work on the same account and data.
• Census Metrics: the municipal census of companion animals, where the adopted animal is registered.
• Wild Metrics: urban wildlife encounters, for what is neither a capture nor an adoption.
• Silva Metrics: the municipality’s inventory of parks and gardens.

Next step

See how people helping on the ground coordinate on the volunteers page and how each animal finds a home in fostering and adoption. You can also go back to the home page. To tell us how your organisation works, write to us.