Shift dashboard

1. In New task request, type the Animal ID, choose the space and pen number.
2. Pick the type: Shelter, Foster, Rescue or Medication. For offsite / Pathway animals, add a detail such as the foster's name.
3. Pick a Suspected condition if you can, and describe the problem in a few words.
4. Tick any emergency signs. The tier line under them shows how fast the vets will respond.
5. Press Submit request.

Emergency (any emergency sign ticked): vets aim to respond within 2 hours. Urgent: within 12–24 hours. Request checks (routine): within 24–48 hours. A vet can bump a routine case up to Urgent.

For a true emergency, radio the vet — don't wait for the board. An urgent cat birthing check goes straight to the top of the vet board.

If the earlier case is still open you'll be told it is already on the board. If it was finished, it is reopened as a fresh flag and the earlier flag is remembered in its history.

Use the Nurse request card. Choose the type, space, species, how many animals and Needed within. Tick Not here yet to schedule it for a later arrival. For a single foster / rescue animal you can also tick Microchip and / or UV on the request form above — these go to the Processing nurse.

In the Cases table. Each row shows the Stage: flagged (waiting for a vet), picked up (a vet has it), waiting for medication (vet check done, medication still to be made up) or completed. Finished cases stay in the Completed list for 24 hours. The Time left column counts down to the tier's target and turns amber, then red, when it is running late.

Vets can put a case back if they are called away. It returns to its tier and any vet can pick it up. The time target keeps running from when it was first flagged.

The big ring is tasks completed today across all shifts, with a ring per shift. Only today's checks are counted. Older unfinished list entries are shown separately as "older still open" so they don't inflate today's total.

Every time you flag an animal and pick a Suspected condition, that sign is counted. We track eight reported signs: cat flu (URI), kennel cough, diarrhoea / GI upset, vomiting, eye condition, skin condition, wounds / injury and other. The Disease watch card on this page and the full board on the Stats page show, for each space, how many animals were flagged in the last 3 days as a share of that space's cages.

These are signs staff noticed, not diagnoses. A vet diagnosis (for example Giardia) is deliberately not counted here.

• Catch clusters early. Several animals with the same sign in one space is the first clue to an outbreak, often before anyone has diagnosed anything.
• Back decisions with numbers. Moving animals, tightening cleaning or biosecurity, or isolating a room is easier to justify with a count.
• Learn our own seasonal pattern. A baseline is being collected for a full year because disease varies with the season. Once it is complete, each period is compared with the same time last year. Until then there is no "high" line.

• Choose a Suspected condition every time you flag an animal. If you leave it blank the animal is flagged but is not counted in disease tracking.
• Pick the right space and pen — counts are per space.
• An animal counts once for the same sign, so there is no harm in re-flagging an animal that is still sick.
• Only flagged animals are counted, so the rate reads lower than a full vet-exam prevalence. Compare it with our own baseline, not with older prevalence figures.