How to Give Back to Pets Around the World Just by Taking Care of Your Own Pet
Three years ago we at Petable set out on a journey to change the way pet owners saw preventive pet health.
Looking at the stats, 95 million pets in the European Union and United States alone are at risk of dying in the next 10 years from preventable causes. And in the UK, the annual stats from the RSPCA show us that the number of pet owners who vaccinate their pets is steadily decreasing. It became clear that so many pets dying from preventable causes was something that needed to be addressed, so we chose to create a solution to help deal with this problem.
Since the release of our mobile app and back office platform for veterinarians, we have reached more than 300 veterinary clinics, and close to 60,000pet owners.
With our mobile-based solution, we are handling reminders and recommendations for more than 100 thousand pet health events and delivering close to a 30% increase in compliance to these events that go from vaccination reminders to chronic treatment plans.
However, we always knew that this was only the beginning.
If we really wanted to tackle the problem, we had to change the way pet owners perceive the importance of preventive care. We needed to “reinvent the wheel” ” by doing two key things:
1- Explain to pet owners why (and not just when) they should be doing each thing for their pet along the way.
2- Give pet owners incentives to become the best pet parents they could absolutely be.
Our mobile app Petable and our blog are already beginning to tackle the first part of the problem, but we know we still have a long way to go. We will be releasing a lot of new exciting things in the next couple of months to further enhance our solution.
And as for point number 2., it’s actually the whole purpose of this story.
We are releasing our Pet-a-Points system with the new version of Petable, and we are taking it global!
Our Pet-a-Points system will give pet owners rewards for performing actions in their pets lives, such as inputting their pet’s weight into the app or following their pet’s health plan, and then we allow them to exchange those points for meaningful actions. Does it sound simple? Well that’s because it is!
We are partnering with 40 shelters around the world to allow pet owners who are using our app to donate meals to those shelters, just for being the best pet parent they can be!
Social purpose is part of our core values at Petable, and thus, allowing our users to be able to give back, just by simply doing all the good things that they can do for their pet, is the right thing to do.
Almost 6,5 million pets enter animal shelters in the US every year and almost 100 thousand in the UK. So it just made sense for us to help the people who already give so much. To support those who help pets find their forever homes and better lives, seems like the best way to start giving back. And we wanted our App users around the world to have this power too!
You can find out more about our Pet-a-Points system here and start helping shelters today by downloading Petable and referring it to your friends.
A lot more is coming soon, but the most important thing is that now every pet parent has even more reasons to keep up with everything in their pet’s life.
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