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Search together
A local team can spread the word during the crucial first week, put up weather-resistant posters, coordinate streets and watch for several missing animals at once.
Where are the free agents? · Guwahati
WATFA is a community-sourced public dataset of street dogs and cats. It creates a shared, ongoing record of the free agents who live across our neighbourhoods, beginning in Guwahati.
Collection can happen through forms, bots, a website or an app. What matters is the shared dataset and the process for continuously maintaining it.
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Turn a chance sighting into a possible match.
A missing report in Chandmari and a casual sighting on Zoo Road may be the same animal. WATFA can flag the possible match and preserve a timeline beyond one poster or post.
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Research
Long-running observations can help communities, researchers, civic bodies and welfare groups understand:
- population
- movement
- health
- traffic
- waste
- vaccination
- identification
- planning
Read with care.Community observations have sampling bias. Record survey effort, missing data and confidence levels. Obscure sensitive locations. This is useful evidence, not an official count.
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How to help
- Donate
- Infrastructure, experiments and fieldwork.
- Develop
- Collection, matching, mapping and search tools. Our one developer wants friends.
- Volunteer
- Survey, photograph, contribute and spread the word.
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Animal privacy
Precise locations help research and identification, but can also help thieves, smugglers or people trying to harm or illegally relocate animals. Public locations should staydeliberately fuzzy and evolve as we learn.