🐈 Pawcial for cat parents
Cats don't walk. That was the whole problem.
Pawcial was built for dogs — parks, check-ins, and the friend your pup made on Tuesday. Then cat parents started asking to come in, which we genuinely did not see coming.
So we worked out what a cat version would honestly have to be. The answer was not a dog app with cat pictures — and it's now in the app, on iOS and Android.
First, the honest part
Three things we are deliberately not building for cats.
Every one of these is a flagship feature on the dog side. None of them survives contact with an actual cat, and we'd rather say so now than ship them and watch you never open them again.
No check-ins
The dog app is built on being somewhere — at the park, right now, come say hi. Cats have no equivalent, and pretending otherwise would give you a button you press once.
No cat playdates
Cats are territorial. Meeting a strange cat is stress, not fun. A cat compatibility feed would be a beautiful screen that nobody opens twice.
Not on the live map
Your cat is at home, which is exactly where you don't want a map pin. Cat profiles stay off the dog map entirely.
What it is instead
Cats come in through care, not play.
Dogs need a social network. Cats need logistics — the sitter, the vet, the records, and the very bad hour when one gets out. That turns out to be the half of Pawcial we've already built.
In the app now
Cat profiles
Indoor or outdoor, good with other cats, lap cat, and the microchip number you can never find when you need it. Built as its own thing, not a dog form with the words swapped.
In the app now
Cat-friendly places
Feline vets, cat sitters, boarding, groomers, cat cafés and rescues — plus a local guide to indoor-outdoor norms, microchip law, and seasonal hazards.
In the app now
Lost-cat alerts
An indoor cat getting out is the worst hour in cat ownership. Post a photo and a last-seen point, and pet parents nearby are notified so they can report a sighting straight back to you.
What we'd build next
Sitters and drop-in visits
Who feeds the cat Thursday to Sunday is the question every cat parent actually has. Pawcial already runs walker–client relationships, approvals and reviews, and plenty of dog walkers do cat drop-ins — so the groundwork is there. Tell us if this is the one you want.
Live now
Cat-friendly places, city by city.
Feline vets, sitters, boarding, groomers, supplies, cat cafés and rescues — each city page also carries a written local guide to indoor-versus-outdoor norms, identification law, and the seasonal hazards that actually catch people out.
Hand-written city guides
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Dallas
- San Francisco
- London
- Berlin
- Paris
- Mumbai
- and wherever you live around the globe.
Help us decide what's next
The first version is out. Tell us what it's missing.
Profiles, cat-friendly places and lost-cat alerts shipped first because those are what cat parents asked for most. What comes after them isn't decided. Tell us what you'd actually use and that answer is what gets built next.
Here for a dog instead? That's where Pawcial started — parks, check-ins, playdates and compatibility matching.
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