Significant barriers exist when trying to adopt a pet from a shelter. Adoption agencies lack the resources and tools to share crucial details and important demographics about their animals online. This lack of access and availability inhibits potential adopters from finding and adopting the right pet from an animal rescue shelter in their area. The obstacles adopters and agencies face surrounding digital communication, the growing number of animals in shelters, and adoption requirements emphasize a clear and current need for a solution. Swipet aims to streamline the adoption process by creating a web application that engages users to quickly find the right pet and providing shelters a digital tool to post their pets online. Swipet is a two-sided web application that caters to adopters and shelter organizations. On the adopter-facing portion of the app, Swipet will display animal images, bios, medical history, and other details about the pet to potential adopters in a design that encourages pet adoption. On the shelter/organization side of the app, Swipet will display users with a dashboard interface that handles adoption requests, activity monitoring, and supports animal uploads, updates, or deletions. With this approach, Swipet will eliminate many of the existing barriers between adopters, animals, and shelters. Utilizing emergent front-end frameworks and a reliable backend stack, the team at Swipet has developed a clean and engaging solution.
