For animal shelter behavior & enrichment teams
Every dog's whole stay, in one place.
Plan playgroups, track enrichment and manage population flow in one place, so your team spends less time on clipboards and more time with the dogs.
Free forever, no credit card. Set up in about five minutes. See plans
- dogs cared for
- 2,900+
- hours of playgroup time
- 3,700+
- stress assessments
- 620+
The missing piece in shelter management.
Most shelter software stops at intake and adoption. Yard Drive picks up everything in between.
Built for shelter and rescue behavior teams, it replaces paper logs and scattered spreadsheets with one system for playgroups, daily enrichment and making sure every dog gets the care they need.
Live kennel map
A real-time view of your entire facility.
Track where every dog is and plan moves to make room for intakes and lower stress, with the whole team in sync on any device.
- Custom tags & statuses
- Color-code kennels and add tags like bite risk or stray hold so critical info is obvious.
- Heatmap views
- Visualize age, length of stay or stress levels across the building at a glance.
- Live team sync
- Moves made on the map update instantly for everyone in the building.
- Works on any device
- View and plan movements from your phone or tablet on the floor.
Dog profiles
Everything about the dog, in one place.
A shared notes and media feed, recent playgroups, disease exposure and printable kennel cards, so the whole team knows each dog.
- Notes & media feed
- Share photos or videos and tag several dogs to post to all their profiles at once.
- Full history
- Recent playgroups, outings and complete kennel movement history.
- Exposure tracking
- Which dogs this dog has been exposed to in the last two weeks.
- Printable bio cards
- Customizable kennel cards with several style options.
- Quick links
- Jump straight to the dog's PetPoint profile.
Playgroup tracking
The smartest way to run playgroups.
Plan compatible groups, time every dog and log behavior from your phone, while keeping your eyes on the pack.
- Live mobile sessions
- Run sessions on your phone and see exactly how long each dog has been out.
- Mid-group notes
- Observations taken during group save straight to each dog's profile.
- Automatic logs
- A record of who played with whom, for behavior and disease tracking.
- Live syncing
- Every start, stop and note syncs across the team's devices.
Conflict detection
Prevent risky pairings automatically.
If two dogs are flagged "Don't pair" on their profiles, Yard Drive marks them the moment they land in the same group, and warns you again if one goes out while the other is still in the yard. No more relying on memory or sticky notes.
Handling & safety
The right dog with the right handler, every time.
Rate every dog and every person on the same handling ladder. Allergies, triggers, equipment and handling notes follow the dog onto every screen, so nobody opens a kennel without the facts.
- One handling ladder
- Green to Red, or your own names. Dogs and people are rated on the same scale.
- Warn or block
- Choose whether a mismatch asks for a second look or stops the check-out outright.
- Flags that follow the dog
- The same safety notes on the planner, kennel cards, profile and check-out screen.
- Every outing logged
- Walks, hikes, enrichment and training, timed, with overdue dogs flagged.
Try it: tick the box to unlock the check-out.
Daily walkthroughs
Spot kennel stress before it turns into a behavior problem.
A quick check at every kennel door each morning. Four questions, scored the same way by everyone, so you can see which dogs are struggling and which are getting worse.
- Scored the same by everyone
- Plain-language help on terms like whale eye and hackles, so a new volunteer rates a dog the way your behavior lead would.
- A trend for every dog
- Scores build a stress history on each profile and a stress heatmap on the kennel map.
- Alerts when it matters
- The dashboard flags high scores and climbing trends, and the team is notified when a dog scores high or jumps sharply.
- Works in the back kennels
- Walkthroughs save without signal and sync when you are back in range.
Scheduled intakes
See who's coming before they arrive.
Track incoming dogs, balance kennel capacity and never get caught off guard by an unannounced intake.
- List or calendar
- Switch between a list and a month calendar of incoming dogs.
- Capacity warnings
- Get warned when an intake would put you over capacity.
- Daily briefings
- An automatic morning email with scheduled intakes and open kennels.
- Key details up front
- Contact, type and kennel needs without digging through notes.
Try it: switch between list and calendar view.
Adoption pages
Show off every dog through the people who know them best.
Your staff and volunteers see each dog's personality every day. Flag their best photos, videos and comments as public and they appear on the dog's adoption page, with no second website to keep up to date.
- One tap to share
- Any photo, video or note in a dog's feed can be flagged public. Tap again to take it down.
- Staff comments
- Notes from the people who walk and play with the dog show up in their words.
- Proof from the play yard
- Each page shows how many dogs a dog has played with, straight from your playgroup records.
- One link for the whole shelter
- A searchable listing of every adoptable dog, with inquiries landing in one inbox.
In Yard Drive: the eye marks what goes on the public page
On Biscuit's adoption page
Sharing any single dog's page is free. The full shelter listing is part of Pro.
Works with your shelter software
Sync your whole population in one click.
Import the daily inventory report from the system you already use and Yard Drive builds your playgroup roster instantly.
- PetPoint
- Shelterluv
- Chameleon
- Shelter Buddy
Built for the yard, not the front desk.
Your main software was built for licensing and medical records, not for running playgroups. Yard Drive gives your behavior team its own workspace without touching your official intake and outcome data.
From the shelters using it
Trusted by the teams on the floor.
“I recently had Fresno Humane Animal Services switch our animal profile platform from a clunkier, less efficient product to Yard Drive because of its ease of use and its efficient way of marketing the animals in our care. With Yard Drive, Fresno Humane has sped up the delivery of full pet profiles to include medical notes, behavioral observations, photos and video. All profiles can be simply exported via email, text, messenger.
And the support for Yard Drive has been exceptional, they are quick to answer any questions and will guide you through set up. Yard Drive is a terrific platform for any sized shelter or ACO department.”
Built by a shelter behavior & enrichment worker
Ready to ditch the clipboard?
Free forever, no credit card. Setup takes about five minutes.