Animal fields

These are the fields asked when an animal is taken in, and again when its record is edited. The order and the labels here are the ones the form ships with. Your organization can reorder, hide and require these under Settings → Record layouts, and add fields of its own, so your form may not look exactly like this list. A field marked always asked cannot be hidden.

Field	What it is for
Internal name	What your team calls the animal. It can carry working detail (“Twix, pre-spay”) that you would not print. Shown inside RescueConsole.
External name	Printed, and shown on the public site, the API and integrations. Blank uses the internal name.
Species (always asked)	Chosen once, at intake, from the species your organization works with. It decides which breed list, patterns and coat lengths are offered.
Breed	Reads Kind for a small mammal, bird, reptile, fish, farm animal, large mammal or exotic, where it says what the animal is.
Breed or variety	Only asked where Breed reads Kind: an Abyssinian guinea pig, a Pekin duck.
Sex	Male, female or unknown.
Intake date (always asked)	Shown when logging an intake. An animal record is dated from it.
Weight at intake	Logged as the first reading in the weight history.
Date of birth (est.)	An estimate is fine. Age everywhere is worked out from it, and listing sites are sent it as the birth date.
Microchip vendor	Who made the chip. Asked before the number because that is the order it is read off the scanner and the paperwork.
Microchip number	Nine to fifteen letters and digits. Used for the public registry, and for microchip registration where you have connected a registry.
Also known as	Other names, separated by commas.
Size	Small, medium, large or extra large.
Primary color	Chosen from a list of common colours, or typed.
Secondary color	A second colour, when there is one.
Pattern	The list follows the species.
Coat length	The list follows the species.
Intake source	How the animal came to you: stray, transfer, owner surrender, field, born in care, adoption return, seized or other.
Status	The status list under Settings → Animal statuses.
Location	A site or a unit on the housing map.
Behavioral traits	Chips from your Behaviour list under Settings, or typed.
Medical conditions	From the Conditions list under Settings → Medical.
Health
Spayed/neutered
Adoption fee	With the fee schedule’s suggestion.
Description

Fields that are not on the intake form

Some answers are given later, from the record itself: what a home needs (children, other pets, house training, indoor or outdoor), the medical summary, photos, and the adoption fee. See The animal record.

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Animals

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Moving animals

Reports

People and organizations

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Shifts and volunteers

Registry

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Fields that are not on the intake form

​Fields that are not on the intake form

Fields that are not on the intake form