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Vetch
Shelter & non-profit

Every animal has a name. And a path out.

Shelter medicine, intake, foster, and adoption — the work that doesn't bill itself. Vetch runs the kennel-card, the SOAP, and the grant report from one screen, so capacity-for-care actually means something.

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For municipal, humane, rescue, and SNAP non-profits · sliding-scale pricing
vetch.vet/shelter · capacity boardLive · 184 in care
Capacity for care · today
184 of 220 · 83%
Stray hold · 14
Med iso · 8
Foster · 62
Adoptable · 100
Length-of-stay flags
Hank · 38d
Senior, behavior eval done
Foster match · 2 candidates
Pip + Polly · 22d
Bonded pair · adoptable
Featured this weekend
Marigold · 19d
URI cleared 4d ago
Move to adoption floor
Vetch · this morning
Three foster matches for Hank scored against home survey + LOS. Adoption descriptions for the 4 dogs cleared from URI yesterday — drafted for review. Grant report data for Maddie’s Fund Q2 is 92% pre-filled; needs your sign-off on outcomes.
Review fostersSee draftsOpen grant report
−9 days
Average length of stay vs. last fiscal year
94%
Live release rate across pilot shelters
4.1×
Foster placements per coordinator hour
0
Animals lost to spreadsheet drift
A Wednesday at the shelter

Intake to outcome, in one chart.

Stray hold, medical, behavior, foster, adoption — the same animal, the same record, every step.

  1. 7:30a
    Intake
    Two strays from animal control.
    Microchip scan, photo, kennel card. Stray hold timer starts. Owner-look-up runs against last-found-pet database.
    Vetch · No chip match. RTO posters drafted for both. Behavior intake form auto-routed to volunteers in 90 min.
  2. 9:15a
    Med rounds
    Vet does morning rounds.
    Ambient charting on three URI cases, two post-op spays. Treatment sheets update automatically. Tomorrow's recheck list assembles itself.
  3. 11:00a
    Foster match
    Hank — long-stay match meeting.
    Vetch ranked 14 active fosters by home survey + behavior compatibility. Top 3 are emailed in one click.
  4. 1:40p
    Adoption
    Marigold goes home.
    Adopter signs on a tablet. Microchip transfers. Spay verified. Welcome packet emails with vaccine record + rabies tag.
  5. 3:20p
    Grant report
    Q2 Maddie's Fund report drafted.
    Outcomes, length-of-stay distribution, foster utilization, intake-by-source — all pulled from live data. You review and sign.
  6. 5:50p
    Closeout
    Kennel cards print themselves.
    Tomorrow's adoption-floor cards, treatment sheets, and feeding schedules print from one button. Volunteers walk in to a ready building.
Built for shelter medicine

The work general PMS skips.

Intake

Stray-to-adoptable pipeline

Stray hold timers, owner-redemption look-up, transfer-in records, surrender intake — every path in is a workflow, not a Word doc.

Foster

Foster network as data

Foster homes are a roster, not a Rolodex. Capacity, species, kid-friendly, medical-savvy — Vetch matches against the animal in seconds.

Outcomes

Live release, real-time

Adoption, RTO, transfer, foster, euthanasia — outcome-coded and Asilomar-aligned. Live release rate updates as you work.

Grants

Reports that fit the funder

Maddie's Fund, ASPCA, Petco Love, state ag — pre-built grant report templates pull from live data. The narrative box stays yours.

Population

Herd health for buildings

URI outbreaks, parvo cases, ringworm — population-level dashboards with cohort tracking. Catch the spread before it becomes a closure.

Donations

Donations + adoption fees

Sliding-scale, fee-waived, name-your-price. Donor records linked to adopter records when they overlap. 990s pull clean.

The honest comparison

What changes when the spreadsheet is the system.

Before Vetch
•Kennel cards live on a clipboard. Treatment sheets live on another clipboard.
•Foster coordinator emails 40 people to find one match.
•Length-of-stay is a number you compute on Saturday.
•Grant reports are two weeks of an ED's life, four times a year.
•"Did Marigold get her booster?" — three tabs and a phone call.
•URI outbreak detected when a third of the building is coughing.
With Vetch
Kennel cards print from the chart. Treatments live in the same record.
Vetch ranks fosters against the animal. Coordinator picks, sends, done.
LOS by cohort, by source, by age — live and on the dashboard.
Reports pre-fill from live data. Director writes the story; not the math.
One tap. Vaccine record + rabies tag printed. Adopter walks out cleaner.
Population dashboard flags the cluster on case three, not case thirty.
Non-profit pricing

Built like enterprise. Priced like rescue.

Shelters are mission-driven and budget-pressed. Vetch's shelter pricing is sliding-scale by intake volume, with a free tier for rescues under 200 animals/year. Same product, same support.

  • Free for rescues under 200 intakes / year
  • Sliding-scale by annual intake for municipal and non-profit shelters
  • Volunteer accounts unlimited at every tier
  • Maddie's Fund, Petco Love, ASPCA, Asilomar exports built in
  • SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA BAA · open data export, always
Hollow Creek Humane · last quarter
Intakes1,242
Live release rate94.6%
Avg length of stay11.4 days (−9 vs LY)
Active foster homes184
Volunteer hours logged9,140
“We dropped length-of-stay by nine days and our team isn't crying on Sunday afternoons writing grant reports. The animals leave faster because the system finally stopped slowing us down.”
Renata Cole, Executive Director · Hollow Creek Humane Society · ~5,000 intakes/year
Migration

Coming from Chameleon, ShelterBuddy, PetPoint, or paper + Excel? 4–6 weeks.

Shelter migrations preserve every animal record — historical intakes, outcomes, foster placements, and donor history. We import Asilomar-aligned outcome data, dedupe owner/adopter records, and run live-release rate against your old system for two weeks before cutover. White-glove, free for non-profits.

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Honest answers.

Yes. Under 200 intakes/year, no charge — full product, unlimited volunteers, support included. We make it back when you grow. Your mission is the price.

Build a shelter that finishes the day clean.

See a real building running on Vetch — talk to a shelter director on the call.

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