StraySAFE - Missing Pet Tracker System
A pet-monitoring website for reporting missing pets and tracking them when the community finds them.
Missing-pet reports scatter across flyers and social posts. StraySAFE puts them in one place both the owner and whoever just found the pet can actually reach.
The team went into WildHacks surprised at how few real resources existed for someone going through the stress of a lost pet, or worried about a stray in their area - most people were left with paper flyers and one-off social posts that only reach whoever happens to scroll past at the right moment. The goal was something simple enough for any pet owner to actually use, anywhere, that also raises broader awareness in a neighborhood about pets that are currently missing - not just a private listing between one owner and one finder.
The report
What actually gets filed when a pet goes missing - recreated from the real form fields.
Report a Lost Pet
- Name
- e.g. Eevee
- Type
- e.g. Cat
- Breed
- e.g. Scottish Fold
- Color
- e.g. Gray
- Age
- e.g. 10
- Microchip #
- XXXXXXXXXX
- Date lost
- MM / DD / YYYY
- Last seen
- e.g. A.B. Park, Downtown
+ a photo upload
Two ways in
Every report has two sides - the person who lost a pet, and the person who might have just found it.
If you lost a pet
- 1.Sign up (stored right in the browser, no server needed)
- 2.File a missing-pet report - breed, microchip #, last seen location, a photo
- 3.Wait for a match
If you found a stray
- 1.Spot a stray in the neighborhood
- 2.Browse open reports for one that matches
- 3.Flag the match
Built at WildHacks by a team of four - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, designed first in Figma, with accounts and reports stored client-side in the browser rather than a real backend (a deliberate hackathon-scope tradeoff). The stats behind the problem statement were run in MATLAB before a line of code was written. Next up: an "Animal Tracker" that plots a missing pet's last known sighting on a map, and a real backend so reports outlive one browser.