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The other tools in the Zoometrics suite seen from the municipal companion animal census: what each one does and how it complements Census Metrics.

Census Metrics deals with companion animals that have a responsible person: their registration, their identification and their place in the municipal census. But the same street is also shared by colony cats, wildlife, animals waiting for a home and the parks where all these neighbours cross paths. Each of these realities is the job of a different department of the local government and has its own tool in the Zoometrics suite.

This page explains how each one looks from the census: which part of the problem it solves, who it falls to and when, in day-to-day work, one service relies on another. These are descriptions of how the tools complement each other in use across municipal departments; each tool presents its own information on its own website.

  • Meow Metrics

    Seen from a companion animal census, Meow Metrics covers the cats that have no family to register them: the ones in feline colonies. It is a platform for managing those colonies with the TNR method, in line with Spanish Law 7/2023, with their map, the people who look after them, trapping, sterilisations and a record for each cat. A municipality using Census Metrics registers animals that have a responsible person; with Meow Metrics it organises the ones that live outdoors and depend on the work of volunteers. They are two different cat populations, and it helps to keep them apart in the records.

    How it works with Census Metrics

    A cat that a resident finds may have a microchip and appear in the census, or it may belong to a colony, and each case has its own route. Census Metrics helps to trace the family of an identified animal; Meow Metrics follows the cats of a colony. They are two departments of the same local government that share the work depending on the cat.

  • Ark Metrics

    When an animal without a home finds a family, the work that Census Metrics takes on begins: the census. Ark Metrics is the suite’s citizen participation tool and follows the path from the street to adoption: whoever asks for a capture, whoever carries it out, whoever offers a foster home, whoever adopts and whoever donates. It also has a public site that shows animals up for adoption and takes incident reports, and it shares data and identity with Meow Metrics. Its focus is the movement of animals and of the people who help them, not the register of those who already live with them.

    How it works with Census Metrics

    An adoption ends the journey in Ark Metrics and starts another in Census Metrics: the new family can register the animal and keep its record up to date. The adoption campaigns that the municipality announces to residents find in Ark Metrics a showcase of the animals available. It is a complementarity of use between two municipal services, not an automatic transfer of data.

  • Wild Metrics

    Wild Metrics deals with the animals that appear in no register: wild ones that wander into the neighbourhoods, with the wild boar as its first case. There is no owner and no chip to trace, so the tool notes encounters: reports from the neighbourhood, what cameras, sensors and alerting traps detect, and what the wildlife service does, all on one map and with an impact assessment for each situation. It helps decide where to step in first and does not try to work out how many individuals there are. Working with it are the responsible council department, whoever provides wildlife control, the Local Police, Civil Protection and people who report from a phone.

    How it works with Census Metrics

    When a loose or injured animal is reported, knowing whether it is a companion or a wild animal decides which service takes it on. Census Metrics handles the first case by tracing the family through the microchip; Wild Metrics organises the second with its record of encounters and actions. They share an audience, such as the Local Police and the residents who report, and a reading by area, but each works with its own data.

  • Silva Metrics

    Silva Metrics is the inventory of a municipality’s green spaces, seen from the places where companion animals walk and play. Each park, garden or dog area has its own record, with plants, furniture, play equipment, irrigation and other elements, living and non-living, and gardening crews log their work from their phone. A QR code opens a public view so that any resident can see information about the space from the street. It is an inventory of what is there and in what state, designed for the parks and gardens service.

    How it works with Census Metrics

    Dog parks are a meeting point for the two areas: Silva Metrics inventories the space and its furniture, and Census Metrics lets the municipality put up posters with a QR code so that owners register their animal, and announce the events held there. The parks and gardens service and the animal service work on the same place, each with its own tool.

The company and the full suite

Zoometrics

Zoometrics is the platform and the company behind Census Metrics and the rest of the suite: tools that let a municipality manage, with data on a map, how people, animals and plants live together, under a One Health approach. Each tool covers one part of the whole: feline colonies, urban wildlife, parks and gardens, citizen participation and companion animals, which is the part Census Metrics handles. Its website brings together the overall vision, the science it draws on, the team and the impact of the suite.

How it works with Census Metrics

Census Metrics shares the language layer and the network of local partners with the suite: a participating shop or clinic is part of the same network that already works for the other tools. Zoometrics is the place to see how the companion animal census fits with the other areas of the municipality.