JD's Brain

Since we moved to Indaiatuba, SP (Brazil), it became obvious that there were plenty of little animals around that could use some help. After rescuing a few cats and dogs in our neighborhood we started to get more involved with other people who did the same. It turned out that there was already more than one local association specifically setup to help the homeless cats and dogs. Unfortunately, none of them are very organized, and only one gets any help from the local administration.

My wife continued to show up at the pet donation spots on weekends to help out and chat with other animal lovers. From those contacts came our friendship with Eliane, the founder for UPAR ("União Protetora dos Animais de Rua"), a new but thriving association that had already helped hundreds of unfortunate animals. We volunteered to create and host a web site containing relevant information and tools to better manage her association. Not only could we inform people about the problem, but we were going to do something about it!

And so the site was born (content in Brazilian Portuguese only). The official launch was in October, and we're currently working on the animal donation part--photographing the animals, inputing their characteristics, and allowing visitors to browse our database and select their new friend. Check out the photo galleries, I'm sure you'll find some adorable cats and dogs there :).