Pet-Inclusive Disaster Evacuation & Shelter Coordination
Public-safety infrastructure for families with pets.
PawsNet is being developed to help emergency-management and animal-services agencies coordinate evacuation, shelter capacity and safe placement for households with pets.
The evacuation decision should not depend on leaving a pet behind.
Households with pets may delay or refuse evacuation when they do not know where their animals can safely go. That creates preventable risk for families and responders while increasing the manual workload placed on emergency-management and animal-services teams.
What PawsNet Is
A coordinated operating system for pet-inclusive evacuation.
Agency-Centered
Designed primarily for emergency-management and animal-services agencies rather than as a stand-alone consumer application.
Capacity Coordination
Supports real-time visibility into sheltering resources, available capacity and placement activity across participating organizations.
Operational Support
Reduces reliance on disconnected phone calls, spreadsheets and manual placement coordination during urgent events.
How the platform is intended to help
PawsNet connects the operational pieces needed to move from a pet-inclusive plan to coordinated action.
- Government and agency coordination dashboards
- Shelter and participating-resource onboarding
- Real-time capacity and utilization visibility
- Placement coordination for households with pets
- Reduced call volume and manual administrative work
- Training, exercises and pilot evaluation
- Cybersecurity and scalable system architecture
- Support for local and state emergency operations
Measuring Operational Value
Success should be visible in the response.
Evacuation Delay
Reduce delays caused by uncertainty about pet safety and placement.
Time to Placement
Help agencies locate appropriate capacity and coordinate placement faster.
Call Volume
Reduce repetitive calls and disconnected manual coordination.
Shelters Onboarded
Expand the usable network of participating shelters and resources.
Capacity Utilization
Improve visibility and use of available shelter and placement capacity.
User Satisfaction
Evaluate whether the platform improves the experience for agencies and participating users.
Development & Deployment
Florida-led. Built in the United States. Designed to scale.
Implementation Scope
System architecture, software development, cybersecurity, pilot deployment, training, exercises and evaluation.
Technical Partner
Mac & Sac Enterprises LLC serves as the technical implementation partner, working with U.S.-based software-development resources.
Long-Term Sustainability
Following a pilot, the operating model is designed to support continued use through licensing to state and local governments and optional enterprise agreements.
Who benefits?
Local and state governments. Emergency-management and animal-services agencies. Participating shelters and response partners. Families preparing to evacuate. And the animals whose safety can determine whether people leave in time.
Help move pet-inclusive evacuation from planning to operations.
PawsNet is seeking government, nonprofit, animal-services, emergency-management and technical partners interested in building and piloting a practical coordination platform.