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Animal Welfare
Animal SheltersRescue OrganizationsWildlife Sanctuaries

Développement de site web pour refuge et sauvetage d'animaux

Nommé pour une raison. Construit pour une cause.

200
Shelter Sites Audited
80% needed rebuilding
500+
SEO Pages Per Build
One page per animal
60-75%
Below Standard Rates
For registered charities
24/7
AI Chatbot Coverage
When staff can't answer
Why We Do This

Social Animal wasn't named by a branding agency. It was named after Jazz, a beagle. Our founder is Jazz's dad. If you run an animal shelter, rescue, wildlife sanctuary, or animal welfare charity — anywhere in the world — we'll build you a website that actually helps you save more lives. For a fraction of what you'd normally pay. Because every animal deserves a shot, and every organization doing this work deserves technology that pulls its weight.

You've seen the template Same WordPress theme, different shelter — rotating slider of sad dogs, a PayPal donate button buried at the bottom, a pet listing page last updated sometime in March. Potential adopters spend about eight seconds on your site, then go find animals on Petfinder instead. Where you have no brand presence whatsoever.
Adoption applications trickle in by email Someone copies them into a spreadsheet. Then a busy week hits, staff get overwhelmed, and good applicants just... don't hear back. They get frustrated, give up, and buy from a breeder. Meanwhile your animals are still in kennels.
Donation pages don't inspire confidence No description of what the money actually does, no recurring giving option, no way to sponsor a specific animal. Donors give once, feel nothing, and never return. Monthly recurring revenue sits at zero while your operating costs keep climbing.
Foster coordinators spend half their day on the phone — calling down a list by hand every time a new intake arrives, trying to figure out who has space Animals wait in overcrowded shelters. Willing foster homes sit empty because nobody got to them in time.
Volunteer management runs on group texts and a paper sign-up sheet on the front desk Nobody tracks hours. Coverage gaps go unnoticed until it's too late. Then grant season arrives and a funder asks for volunteer hour data you simply don't have.
Your website's in English Your rescue pulls dogs from Romania and finds them homes in the UK and the Netherlands. International adopters can't navigate the site. International donors can't donate. You've cut off a huge chunk of your support base without realizing it.
Adoptable Animal Profiles
Each animal gets a real profile: name, six-plus photo gallery, video, breed, age, weight, temperament, compatibility notes, medical status, and adoption fee. Filterable by species, breed, age, size, gender, and location. A shelter with 500 animals gets 500 individual SEO pages, each one targeting searches like "beagle adoption Manchester" or "senior cat rescue near me."
Petfinder / Adopt-a-Pet / RescueGroups Sync
When your staff updates an animal's record, it pushes everywhere. Automatic syndication to the Petfinder API, Adopt-a-Pet API, and RescueGroups means no double-entry, no stale listings. Your team touches one system. The internet handles the rest.
Online Adoption Applications
Structured application forms capture housing situation, current pets, vet references, lifestyle, breed experience — everything you actually need. Submissions go into Supabase. Staff review, approve, deny, and communicate with applicants from one dashboard. No more email chains. No more spreadsheets.
Donation Platform with Sponsorship
Stripe or Razorpay handles one-time and monthly recurring donations. Giving tiers with real impact descriptions: "$25 feeds one dog for a week." Sponsor-an-animal links a monthly donation directly to a specific animal's profile. Year-end tax receipts generate automatically.
Foster Network Management
Foster application forms capture availability, experience, housing, and animal preferences. When a new intake arrives, the system finds matching fosters by capacity and preference automatically. What used to take three hours of phone calls takes minutes.
AI Chatbot — 24/7 Coverage
A Claude-powered RAG chatbot fields questions about available breeds, the adoption process, and visiting hours — pulling from your shelter's FAQ and live animal data. It captures adopter interest at 2am when your staff has been asleep for hours.
Volunteer Portal
Sign-up, orientation scheduling, shift calendar, hour tracking — volunteers see available shifts and their own contribution history, admins see coverage gaps and who's due for a thank-you.
Event Calendar & Ticketing
Adoption events, fundraising galas, spay/neuter clinics, vaccination drives — all with an RSVP system and Stripe-powered ticket sales built in.
Public Impact Dashboard
Live counters on your site: animals rescued, adopted, currently in care, active foster homes, total donations received, volunteers contributing. All pulling from Supabase in real time.
Multi-Language Support
Our 30-language i18n engine built for cross-border rescues. Rescue in Romania, adopt in the UK, fundraise in the Netherlands — one site handles all of it.
Mobile-First, Fast Loading
Over 60% of shelter website traffic comes from phones. Every build is mobile-first, deployed on Vercel's edge network for sub-second load times wherever your visitors are.
You Own Everything
No CMS lock-in, no annual license, no vendor dependency. You own the code, the data, and the domain. Permanently.
01
Tell Us About Your Mission
Email us your charity registration and a short description of your organization. We'll come back within 48 hours with a subsidized quote. No obligation, no sales pitch.
Day 1-2
02
Discovery & Animal Data Audit
We start by auditing your current workflow — intake volume, adoption process, donor pipeline, how your team actually operates day-to-day. We map every integration point: Petfinder, Stripe, volunteer systems, all of it.
Week 1
03
Build & Integrate
Then we build: animal profiles with full SEO architecture, adoption forms, donation platform, foster matching, volunteer portal. The same tech stack we use for commercial clients who pay $15–50K.
Weeks 2-5
04
Staff Training & Launch
We train your team to manage listings, review applications, and read the impact dashboard. Then we launch and stay on for 30 days of post-launch monitoring.
Week 6
05
Ongoing Support (Optional)
Ongoing maintenance runs $200–500/month at our cost — updates, hosting management, new features as your rescue grows. No contracts.
Ongoing
Next.jsSupabaseVercelStripeRazorpayPetfinder APIAdopt-a-Pet APIRescueGroups APIClaude AIi18n

FAQ

Pourquoi vos tarifs sont-ils beaucoup plus bas pour les refuges animaliers ?

Social Animal a été nommé d'après Jazz, le beagle de notre fondateur. Le bien-être animal n'est pas un angle marketing pour nous — c'est pourquoi l'entreprise existe. Nous subventionnons 60–75% de notre tarif standard pour les organismes de bienfaisance enregistrés parce que nous pensons que chaque organisation de sauvetage mérite une technologie appropriée. Nous absorbons la différence. Pas une stratégie de perte. Une mission.

Devons-nous être un organisme de bienfaisance enregistré pour être admissible ?

Oui. Nous exigeons l'enregistrement caritatif — 501(c)(3) aux États-Unis, organisme de bienfaisance enregistré au Royaume-Uni, ou l'équivalent dans votre pays. Cela garantit que la subvention va aux organisations légitimes. Si vous êtes un refuge informel sans enregistrement pour le moment, contactez-nous quand même. Nous examinons chaque situation individuellement et pouvons souvent trouver un moyen de vous aider.

Les profils d'animaux adoptables seront-ils vraiment classés sur Google ?

Oui. Nous utilisons une architecture répertoire qui génère des pages SEO-optimisées individuelles pour chaque animal de votre système. Cinq cents animaux signifient 500 pages, chacune ciblant des recherches spécifiques comme « adoption de golden retriever Austin » ou « adoption de chat senior près de moi ». Cela attire le trafic organique des personnes qui recherchent déjà à adopter dans votre région — elles ne savent juste pas que vous existez encore.

Le site peut-il se synchroniser automatiquement avec Petfinder et Adopt-a-Pet ?

Nous intégrons l'API Petfinder, l'API Adopt-a-Pet et l'API RescueGroups. Quand un membre du personnel met à jour le profil d'un animal — nouvelles photos, changement de statut, marqué comme adopté — cela se synchronise automatiquement sur toutes les plateformes. Pas de double saisie, pas d'annonces périmées montrant des animaux qui ont trouvé un foyer il y a trois semaines.

Quel est le coût d'hébergement après le lancement ?

L'hébergement est facturé à notre coût réel : 25–45€ par mois pour Supabase et Vercel combinés. Pas de majoration, pas de licence annuelle. La maintenance optionnelle coûte 200–500€ par mois et couvre les mises à jour, le monitoring et les nouvelles fonctionnalités. Les deux sont véritablement optionnels — vous êtes propriétaire du code et pouvez l'auto-héberger si c'est mieux pour vous.

Combien de temps dure la construction du lancement au démarrage ?

La plupart des sites de sauvetage se lancent en six semaines. La semaine un est la découverte et l'audit des données. Les semaines deux à cinq constituent la construction — profils d'animaux, formulaires d'adoption, plateforme de dons, appariement des familles d'accueil, outils bénévoles. La semaine six est la formation du personnel, le lancement et le début de 30 jours de support post-lancement.

Registered Animal Charities: $2,000 – $7,000
60-75% below our standard rate. Fixed fee. 30-day post-launch support. You own the code.
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If You Rescue Animals, We Want to Help

Send us your charity registration and a brief description. We'll respond within 48 hours with a subsidized quote. No obligation. No sales pitch.

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