🐶 For dog parents
Find the dogs your dog actually gets on with.
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Add your dog
Breed, age, energy level, play style, and how they do with other dogs. This is what compatibility scoring reads, so the more honest you are about a dog who plays rough, the better the matches get.
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Check in when you're out
Heading to the park? Check in as ready to play. Other dog parents nearby see you're out, and the check-in expires on its own — there's no live tracking, and nothing shares your location when you haven't checked in.
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See who's compatible
Every nearby dog gets a score out of 100 with the reasons behind it — energy match, play style, size. Great match, good fit, maybe, or use caution. You get to decide before the leashes come off.
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Build a circle
Mark dogs you trust. Log the playdates that actually happen. After five, a dog becomes a BFF and sits at the top of your list — the friendships your dog picked, remembered.
🐱 For cat parents
Cats come in through care, not play.
Cats don't do playdates, check-ins or the map — we deliberately didn't build those, because a territorial animal has no use for them. What's here instead:
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Add your cat
Indoor or outdoor, good with other cats, lap cat, and the microchip number you can never find when you need it. It's a cat form, not a dog form with the words swapped — no play style, no park.
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Find what your cat needs nearby
Feline vets, cat sitters who do drop-in visits, boarding, cat-experienced groomers, supplies, cat cafés and rescues. Search your own area or any city, with a written local guide for each one.
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Book a sitter you trust
Connect to a cat sitter in the app and book them — a single drop-in, or every day of a holiday. You're told when each visit starts and finishes, and you confirm it afterwards. They're paid directly by you, at whatever you've agreed.
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If they get out, raise an alert
Post a photo and where they were last seen. Pet parents nearby get a notification and can report a sighting straight back to you. Mark it resolved the moment they're home.
🦮 For walkers and sitters
Run your clients, your bookings, and the record.
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Set up a professional profile
Your bio, your neighbourhood, what you offer — dog walking, cat sitting, drop-in visits — and a phone number you verify by text. Pet parents browsing see all of it, plus the reviews your clients leave.
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Connect with clients
Share your code and clients can find you directly. Once a client approves you, their dog or cat appears in your list.
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Take bookings across a calendar
A single walk, or every day of a fortnight's holiday. Each day is booked separately, so one changed day never disturbs the rest.
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Start it, end it, get it confirmed
Start when you collect them and end when they're home — the duration is measured, not typed. Your client is told, and confirms it. Silence confirms it after 72 hours. Dog walks also show on the map with a purple pin and a walker badge.
Your clients pay you directly, at your rates — Pawcial never handles the money. More for professionals →
What about privacy?
There is no continuous location tracking in Pawcial. Nothing shares where you are unless you check in, check-ins expire on their own, and you can set how far away people can see you — or make your profile private entirely. Cat profiles never appear on the map at all.
The full detail is in our privacy policy, and what we expect of people is in the acceptable use policy. Meeting up with strangers deserves care, so we also wrote a safety guide.
Still stuck, or something not working?
We read everything that comes in, and a fair amount of what's in the app now exists because someone wrote to us about it.
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