Small animal shelters usually run on spreadsheets, paper cards and WhatsApp groups. Vaccination dates get lost, nobody knows which cage a dog is in, and adoption requests arrive as Instagram DMs.

Multi Shelter Manager is a free, MIT-licensed web app that replaces all of that. Several shelters share one installation, each fully isolated, and it already runs three real shelters, from the Azores to Lisbon and Porto. It's made in Portugal with Laravel 13 and Livewire.

👉 Try it now: https://demo.focinhos.pt (one click, no sign-up, you get your own sandbox shelter)

Code: https://github.com/zhoorta/multi-shelter-manager

What it does

Pets : identification, microchip, health, photos, and a status (available / adopted / ...) worked out automatically.

Facilities → wings → cages : model the physical space, see occupancy, and always know where every animal is.

Vaccinations and treatments with due dates and daily e-mail reminders.

Adoptions, sponsorships, volunteers, members and their fees.

Foster families and…