Our story

Two rescue hounds, a stack of vet paperwork, and no way to find anything in it.

Paperless Pet wasn't a business plan. It came out of four years of shelter visits, river days, and two knee surgeries: a filing problem we couldn't solve with folders.

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The founders, with Mia & Kratos

Kratos, brindle grey, grinning in the foreground on a rocky creek bank, Mia splashing through the shallow water behind him

Mia and Kratos, mid-summer, the river they claimed as theirs.

012022 / The shelter

How Mia picked us

Mia was our first dog together. We rescued her from our local shelter, and meeting her at all was pure chance. We were there to meet a different dog, ran into her while we waited, and asked if we could say hello.

Mia could not have cared less. She wanted nothing to do with us.

I still can't tell you what it was, but after ten minutes of being thoroughly ignored I looked at my wife and said, "She's the one."

We found out later that she'd been at the shelter more than six months and was badly kennel-stressed. Once she got home and settled, she slowly turned into the dog we know now. I'd never had a hound before, and I wasn't ready for how smart they are, or for the power of that nose. I'm still awestruck watching her find a treat hidden anywhere in the house.

Mia, a long-eared black-and-tan hound, close to the camera beside a creek in the pines, Kratos standing behind her

Mia, long-eared black-and-tan hound, curled asleep on a brown leather couch beside a stuffed toy, her first night home

Six months in a kennel, and then this.

02Months later / Two cities over

Then there were two

A few months later, visiting family a couple of cities over, I got a message that their local shelter was full and needed adopters. We looked at the list, and there he was: another Plott Hound mix, just like Mia. We looked at each other and left for the shelter right then.

It took an hour to get there. We arrived twenty minutes before closing. The staff let us meet him anyway, and I'm glad they did. Ten minutes later we were signing paperwork and loading Kratos into the car.

Kratos, brindle grey, in a red life jacket making eye contact with the camera on a sandy lake shore, water behind him

Twenty minutes before closing, and then inseparable.

03Four years / Of adventures

The adventures, and the paperwork

Camping, hiking, the river on hot days. Mia and Kratos became inseparable.

It turns out big dogs who go on adventures are very good at hurting themselves. A broken leg, then two TPLO surgeries (a knee repair, if you've been lucky enough never to need one), and arthritis visits that haven't stopped since. We were buried in vet paperwork almost immediately, with no good way to store it and no way at all to find anything in it.

Mia and Kratos nosing along a dark creek bank

Kratos stretched out grinning in an orange camp rocking chair beside a fire pit, tall pines behind him

Why this exists

What the paperwork looked like by year four.

years of vet visits, surgeries, and boosters.

folders holding all of it, in no particular order.

ways to search it when a kennel needed a vaccine date that day.

We looked for something that already did this. What we found mostly didn't, and where it did, it came with a catch.

So we built somewhere to keep the records where you can actually find them: easy to store, easy to search, and there when a boarding kennel or a new vet asks.

Where we stand

Your records are yours.

There is nothing to sell, because we never collected the browsing and behavioral data those buyers actually want.

Mia in silhouette, mid-stride across a shallow river at sunset

Never sold, never brokered

We have never sold your data and we never will. There is no advertising network here, no data broker, no analytics vendor.

Never used to train AI

Your documents are read to organize your records. They are not training data, for us or for anyone else.

Yours to correct, export, or delete

Whenever you want: correct anything, export everything, delete a record or the whole account. Deleting content ends our right to it.

Privacy is a right. We stand by that.

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