The cat-specific layer your shelter is missing

A database can hold a cat’s vaccine dates. It can’t hold the cat.

pspspurr helps your shelter learn who each cat really is, sends that knowledge home at adoption, and supports the new family through the first 30 days, the make-or-break stretch when a cat decides whether it trusts the place.

Walk through a rescue morning Start free

Free for 14 days. No credit card. Your whole team included, every plan.

Every cat: known, not just logged
30 days: of support in the new home
Full story: goes home with the cat

A rescued orange tabby resting calmly by a sunny window

Mochi · Day 7 · Purring

Needs you today

Sorted by risk

Salem

Call Priya today

Hissing

Mochi

Logged, nothing to do

Purring

Salem needs you

Day 3 · eating less

Because cats are cats

A cat is a tiny apex predator in a very cute suit.

She comes with her own opinions, triggers, and rules, and that personality is what decides how the adoption goes. When all of it lives in one volunteer’s memory, the adopter takes the cat home half-blind and hits the hard weeks alone.

A black and white cat resting its head, looking uncertain in a new home — Day four in a new home. She’s under the bed, and the adopter has no idea whether that’s normal.

The stuff that isn't in the file

Which people she trusts, what makes her bolt, how she is around a resident cat. The things that decide an adoption never fit in a database field.

An adopter with no manual

They go home with a complicated little predator and a printout of vaccine dates, then guess their way through the hardest month.

Knowledge that walks out the door

The volunteer who understood this cat best isn't there at 9pm on day four, when the adopter is panicking and the cat is under the bed.

One cat, one story

Everything you learn follows the cat home.

A shelter learns a cat by living with it. pspspurr turns that into a profile that grows every day she’s in care, then walks out the door with her.

Observe

From day one, jot down what you notice: who she trusts, what spooks her, how she runs the room.

Baseline

Those notes build a real profile of who this cat is, well past her medical dates.

Match

Place her with a home that fits her actual personality instead of a hopeful guess.

Hand off

At adoption the whole profile goes home with her, so the adopter starts day one informed.

Support

For 30 days the shelter is in the adopter's corner: updates, questions, and answers they can trust.

This is why pspspurr exists

Learn

How each cat settles in teaches you something for the next one you place.

What’s inside

Three things your database can’t do.

The profile

Who she is, not just what shots she's had

Personality, triggers, quirks, and how she does with cats, dogs, and kids. It grows every day she's in care.

Shy at firstHates fast handsGood with dogsBonded to Biscuit

The handoff

Everything you know, sent home

At adoption the adopter gets the full story on their cat, so they start informed instead of guessing.

Sent to the Nair family

Salem’s full profile: his hiding spots, the food he trusts, the two words he knows, and what a good week looks like.

In the home

Backup for the scary first weeks

The adopter logs updates and asks questions. Your team answers, with Blep drafting a reply so nothing goes out unread.

“He hasn’t eaten since we got home. Should I be worried?”Priya, day 1

Blep drafted a reply

“Totally normal on night one. Put his favorite food somewhere quiet and give him room to settle before…”

Review & sendHeld for you

Behind the scenes

Blep does the busywork

Blep is a small helper built into pspspurr. It turns your scribbled intake notes into a clean profile and writes the first draft of adopter check-ins and messages, so your team spends less time at the keyboard. It never sends anything on its own: you read it over, change what you want, and hit send. Think of it as the teammate who enjoys data entry.

Meet Whisker Watch

One list. Sorted by who needs you first.

Overdue care, long-stay cats, and shaky new placements show up in one queue every morning, each labeled Purring, Watching, or Hissing so you know where to start.

Harbor Street Rescue

Needs you today

Steady overall

Salem
· Day 3 in a new home
Hiding and eating less, and the adopter hasn't checked in
Hissing
Call Priya today →
Pearl
· 94 days in care
Listing has gone stale; foster notes need a refresh
Watching
Refresh her listing →
Mochi
· Day 7 in a new home
Eating, using the litter box, gaining confidence
Purring
Logged, nothing to do →

The whole scale

PurringSettled and thriving
WatchingWorth a closer look
HissingNeeds a human today

A grey cat gazing directly at the camera

Every cat accounted for, even the shy ones.

What changes

Your team stops running on memory.

The next step is always on the screen, so your coordinators spend the morning helping cats instead of piecing together what happened from a dozen text threads.

Fewer cats come back

You see the week-two wobble as a task on Tuesday, well before it becomes a return in week five.

Mornings start calm

One prioritized list replaces the group texts, sticky notes, and 'wait, did anyone call them?'

Nothing falls through

Long-stay cats and silent adopters climb back up the list before they fade into the backlog.

A ginger cat curled up cozily in warm evening light

I built pspspurr because cats are incredibly smart, curious, and (at times) temperamental little Pandora’s Boxes we ask strangers to fall in love with. And while the shelter has had weeks, months, and even years to learn how to live with him or her, someone has to teach the adopter as well.

This app is a love letter to the people who run rescues, made by a cat person. Its strength isn’t in being a database. Any program can do that. pspspurr is built around the messy first month after adoption: the hiding, the slow introductions, the resident cat who isn’t convinced of the new addition yet, and all the other reasons a good match still needs someone paying attention.

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