Most rescue software is built by companies that have never mucked a cage, tracked a litter through bottle-feeding, or tried to explain a database to a volunteer coordinator. Mine was built differently.
Working as a Rescue Technology Coordinator in Yuma, I kept running into the same thing: rescues stuck with a patchwork of spreadsheets, manual intake forms, and slow WordPress sites that cost money every month to maintain.
The options were: expensive enterprise software designed for large city shelters, generic nonprofit software that sort of fit, or build it myself. I built it myself.
Running Beauties of the Beasts simultaneously showed me the same problems from the director's chair. Intake was chaotic. Tracking was manual. There was no good way to tell a volunteer which animals needed attention without walking them through a spreadsheet row by row.
These apps were built for real rescues, not as products. But they prove what's possible when a developer builds software for a problem they actually live.
Beauties of the Beasts accepts snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, and other reptiles. We do not intake dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, or other non-reptile animals. For other animals in the Yuma area, please contact your local humane society or animal shelter.
A bottle baby and kitten foster program can run dozens of fosters at any given time. Before Kitten Tracker, the rescue's coordinator was managing it all via text messages and a shared spreadsheet. Weight logs got missed. Feeding schedules were inconsistent across fosters. Nobody had a clear picture of who was ready for adoption.
TECH STACK
RescueBase is a core shelter management system — intake records, animal profiles, medical histories, adoption tracking, and reporting. It replaced a combination of Google Sheets, paper forms, and a third-party platform that charged monthly and didn't fit how the rescue actually worked.
TECH STACK
Most rescue volunteer coordinators manage sign-ups through a third-party tool that doesn't integrate with anything else they use. The Volunteer Portal replaces it with a custom system that connects directly to RescueBase — so shift sign-ups know which animals need attention that day.
Beauties of the Beasts' website was running on WordPress with the Divi builder. It loaded slowly, cost money every month to maintain, and required constant plugin updates. I rebuilt it from scratch as a Next.js static site deployed on Cloudflare Pages — the same approach I bring to every rescue site I touch.
If you're a rescue director or shelter manager dealing with intake chaos, spreadsheet overload, or a website that costs too much and does too little — I consult on rescue technology. Not as a sales pitch. As someone who runs one.