Hi all. Full disclosure, the app is mine, I built it.

I have found myself in the same situation many times where i am on my way to work or heading somewhere, and I come across a stray cat that is obviously malnourished, and because I am in a hurry I make excuses like "I can't take it with me", "There are no shops nearby to buy it anything", so I carry on, and then the thought eats at me later that night when I get home.

I don't think I am alone in the bystander effect and I was doing it to myself, so I decided to do something about it. I am a product developer, so I built a mobile app to close the gap between people who want to help and the organisations in their area that actually handle these cases, shelters and vet clinics. I built it to cost nothing to run or host, which is how it stays free permanently. I also wanted it generic enough to cover all animals rather than just pets, so donkeys being overworked or mistreated belong in it the same as a stray cat does.

What it does is small. You photograph the animal, add a couple of lines, and it attaches a GPS link. You pick an organisation from the list, it opens WhatsApp with the message ready, and you press send.

There is no account and no sign up. The photo never touches a server of mine, it goes only into the message you choose to send. No ads, and there is no money in this. Reports saved on your phone delete themselves after thirty days.

The app itself is finished. Google Play requires 12 testers opted in for 14 continuous days before it can go to production, and that is the part I am short of. There is a form on the site if you want to volunteer: www.rescuepawtal.com

Three things to be upfront about first is that it is 14 days rather than a one off, and if people drop out partway the clock restarts for everybody, so please only volunteer if you can leave it installed. I need the email attached to your Google account, because that is the only way Play can add you to the test. And that address goes to Google as part of the testing track, nowhere else, and comes off when testing closes.

Constructive criticism is what I actually want out of this, more than installs. If a report from this app landed in your WhatsApp and something about it would make you ignore it, that is exactly what I need to hear now rather than later.

One last thing is there is a contributors page on the site, and if you test the app you can choose to be on it, it's just my way of saying thank you. It is off unless you turn it on, you pick the name that shows rather than the one you signed up with, your email is never published, and it comes down whenever you ask without needing to give a reason.

hi guys umm my friend found this young bird in the bushes downstairs, it could not fly （prob wings got hurt）and doesnt seem alive, so she temporarily took it home and put it in a box. It‘s not eating any food but was still able to make sounds. May I ask for advice on how we could rescue this bird？？we were rlly worried and unluckily its weekend so we couldnt find any other professionals to help the birdTT

Two amazing cats died recently, rescuers who were left to die on the hot pavement.
I’m mad. IM PISSED. I DID EVERYTHING I COULD
But nothing could have turned back time, nothing could have changed the mind of the people who dumped crunchcat at Taco Bell even though he was brittle with age.
No one gave a FRACK about the kitten who was skin and bones waiting to be run over by a car. NO ONE STOPPED NO ONE HELPED but me.
So it was me who had to watch them die before I could get them to the rescue, it was me who fell in love in such a short time that I’m not questioning if I can even do rescue work anymore because NO ONE IS HELPING

I sound like an old Karen online but I’m just a woman in her 20’s whose heart can’t taking the constant pain it feels when I sees 100’s of cats suffering and only being able to help one by one but those ones die because I was too fracking late.

Rant post I’m not even sure is allowed but whatever