Animal Details

The animal details tab contains all the basic information about the animal, including it's breed, species, name, age, location within the shelter, identifying code etc.

When you create a new animal, a special option appears for ``Non-Shelter Animal'' (as shown in the screenshot). Tick this box if the animal is nothing to do with your shelter, but you want to utilise ASM's facilities in managing vaccinations, etc. This is very useful for shelters that run their own clinics which are open to members of the public (and of course it allows clinics and vets to run their operations with ASM too if they don't handle adoptions, etc). ASM will force non-shelter animals to have the non-shelter type so that you can see from the code that the animal does not belong to the shelter.

Below the animal's name, you can also tick a ``not for adoption'' flag, which enables you to hide this animal from the internet publishers.

If the ``Use Single Breed Field'' option is not enabled in the system options (the default), then ASM will display two breed fields with a ``Crossbreed'' flag you can set. This allows you to choose two breeds for mixed/crossbreed animals.