Census Metrics for local governments: a municipal census of companion animals that stays current
How municipal staff work with Census Metrics: registrations validated in one inbox, census search, campaigns, emergency identification and reports.
This page is for those who maintain the companion animal census in a local government or local body: technical and administrative staff, councillors and services such as the Local Police or animal collection.
The problem it solves
Many animals appear in an identification register but not in the municipality’s census, and the local government does not know who is missing. The result is a census that is rebuilt from time to time and does not reflect the street.
Census Metrics takes the procedure to families and gives the local government a living census it can consult at any time. How the work is shared among the different audiences is on the home page.
Features designed for municipal staff
Validation inbox. Registrations, removals and changes arrive in one place to be approved, corrected or rejected. A record is kept of who resolved each case.
Census search. Search by microchip, owner or address and exportable lists. Each animal’s record, one click away.
Dashboard and map. Census figures by species, neighbourhood and registration channel. Never showing the exact address.
Targeted communication. Messages only to those concerned, by app, email or SMS. Better-aimed notices.
Campaigns. Call-out, sign-up and attendance in one place. The result is noted in the record.
Alerts. Notices about situations worth watching, with the thresholds the municipality sets. To act in time.
Emergency identification. With the microchip, the Local Police or animal collection reaches the family. The query is logged.
Reports. Monthly report and annual report from what is already recorded. No typing the data twice.
How it is used day to day
Each morning, the team resolves the new requests from the inbox. When an enquiry arrives, the animal is looked up and its record exported. To prepare a campaign you choose the audience and send the notice; at month end, the report comes from data that was already there. Distribution points for the census are managed from the local partners page.
Everyday situations for the department
- An enquiry arrives about an animal. Its record is found and exported.
- A neighbourhood accumulates lost-pet cases. The alert lets you write to the people affected.
- A campaign has to be called. Only the chosen audience is notified.
- The owner or address changes. The procedure goes through the validation inbox.
Data protection
Permissions by profile, maps without exact addresses and the log of every identification query help show how data is handled. The family decides what to share from the veterinary record.
What each actor will see
Families have their space, on the pet owners page, and veterinary practices have theirs, on the veterinary clinics page.
Census Metrics is part of the Zoometrics suite, with Meow Metrics, Ark Metrics, Wild Metrics and Silva Metrics (new tab). More on the Zoometrics suite page.
Talk to us
If your local government wants to see how this would fit the way it works, write to us from the contact page and tell us what you need.
Frequently asked questions
Do we have to give up our municipal bylaw or the way we work now?
No. The platform adapts to the local government, not the other way round.
Does it replace the companion animal identification register?
No. It cross-checks against it and the decision stays with municipal staff.
Who sees each piece of data inside the local government?
Each person accesses only what their permission covers, and identification queries are logged.
Can census information be published on the municipal website?
If the local government wants it, yes: a public map with aggregated figures and no family data.
Can we contact only some of the owners?
Yes. Messages go only to the audience concerned.
How do we start talking?
Write to us from the contact page and tell us how you run the census today.