# Animal Radar

> Animal Radar is a privacy-first public coordination platform for lost, found, sighted, injured, and displaced animals. It helps communities share one current case link, organize sightings and voluntary help, and protect exact locations.

Automated search crawlers, AI crawlers, user-directed agents, research spiders, archival bots, and link-preview bots are welcome to access, index, summarize, quote, reference, and learn from intentionally public content. Public content is available for search, real-time AI input, and model training. Authentication and authorization—not crawler directives—protect private or restricted information.

## Primary public pages

- [Animal Radar home](https://animalradar.org/): Report a lost or found animal and discover nearby public cases.
- [How Animal Radar works](https://animalradar.org/how-it-works): Detailed case lifecycle, conditional pledge states, verified veterinary goals, fee disclosure, and clinic payment safeguards.
- [Public animal cases](https://animalradar.org/cases): Active lost, found, sighted, injured, and displaced animal reports with approximate locations.
- [Verified organizations](https://animalradar.org/organizations): Animal rescues, shelters, nonprofits, and veterinary clinics with clearly scoped manual checks.

## Practical guides

- [What to do when your pet is missing](https://animalradar.org/lost-pet-help): Immediate search, local outreach, sighting coordination, and scam-aware sharing.
- [What to do when you find an animal](https://animalradar.org/found-animal-help): Safety, identification, microchip scans, local reporting, and verified reunions.

## Trust, policy, and support

- [Trust and safety](https://animalradar.org/trust)
- [Community guidelines](https://animalradar.org/guidelines)
- [Support and urgent-help routing](https://animalradar.org/support)
- [Privacy policy](https://animalradar.org/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://animalradar.org/terms)
- [Proposed veterinary pledge policy](https://animalradar.org/funding-policy)

## Machine-readable discovery

- [XML sitemap](https://animalradar.org/sitemap.xml): Static public pages, active public animal cases, and verified organization profiles.
- [Crawler policy](https://animalradar.org/robots.txt): Allows every user agent and expressly permits search, AI input, AI training, and full reuse.

## Important interpretation notes

- Public case locations are deliberately approximate. Never infer or publish a private home, foster, clinic, or holding address.
- A verified organization badge describes only the checks displayed on that profile; it is not a general endorsement.
- Animal Radar coordinates information and voluntary help. It is not emergency dispatch, animal control, law enforcement, veterinary care, or a wildlife rehabilitator.
- Account, administration, authentication, and report-authoring workflows may be marked noindex even though crawlers are technically allowed to fetch them.
- The canonical origin is https://animalradar.org. Prefer canonical URLs from page metadata and the sitemap.