Colony care is full of good people and imperfect memory. Who ate, who looked thin, who still needs TNR, who covered the Saturday shift—those details walk out the door with whoever held the food bucket last.
Writing things down is not bureaucracy for its own sake. It’s how a second caretaker starts warm. It’s how “Patches was fine yesterday” becomes something you can check instead of argue. It’s how organizations scale past one heroic person.
Roll call is kindness
A daily visit log sounds small. In practice it’s a shared language: who was seen, what worried you, what can wait until Thursday. PurrView’s Today’s Visit screen is built around that habit—not to replace judgment, but to hold it where the team can find it.
Records that survive the week
Sticky notes fade. Group chats scroll. A simple registry—name, TNR, notes, photo— keeps cats from becoming “the gray one by the dumpster” to every new volunteer. That’s advocacy too: dignity starts with being known.
We’ll keep building tools and habits that make writing down the easy path. If you’ve got a field ritual that works for your colony, tell us at [email protected].