The Traveller
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stray dogs in Nepal
Most have never been seen by a vet.
human rabies deaths a year
Seventy percent preventable through dog vaccination.
functioning shelters in a country of 30M
Scattered across 77 districts. No shared system.
A brown dog, thin, bleeding on her flank. You don't speak Nepali. You don't know any vets. It's almost midnight. In any other city, this is where the story ends.
Open Pawseen. Tap Report. Your GPS locks. You take one photo. You tag severity. Thirty seconds, done. If you had no data signal, you'd have texted DOG to 1234 and it still would have worked.
A Claude-powered triage reads the photo and your note. It flags the case as Urgent. It finds the nearest open-hours vet, 1.2 km away. It pings the three closest trained volunteers.
Pratima is a trained volunteer who lives 800m away. She sees the ping, accepts, and is on her scooter in four minutes. You get her name and ETA. You stay with the dog.
Together you get her into a carrier and to KAT Centre. She's stable. The wound is cleaned and stitched. You'll get a photo update tomorrow morning, and every week after that, for as long as she's in care.
Every day, thousands of Nepalis share videos of injured and lost animals in Facebook groups. It's beautiful. It's the reason this country is ready for a platform like Pawseen. But caring and coordinating are different problems, and a dog in pain can't wait for comments to turn into action.
“We wouldn't exist without you. Every report you've ever posted, every midnight comment, every time you cared enough to film a dog nobody else saw. That culture is the foundation. Pawseen just gives it infrastructure.”
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I built Pawseen because of Coco.
Last summer I took him from Kathmandu to Bandipur, then on to Chitwan. I thought we'd make memories together. On the way back, somewhere between Chitwan and home, the heat caught up with him. He stopped drinking. He stopped eating. His breathing turned shallow and frightened.
I searched for a vet at every stop along the highway. There was none. Not one. For six hours I drove, crying, while Coco stayed quieter than he had any right to be. Brave, impossible Coco.
We made it to Happy Pets in Kathmandu after midnight. The doctor stayed with him all night. Coco lived. Many dogs on that highway would not have.
Two million strays in Nepal have no highway vet, no Happy Pets, no one crying for them in a car. Pawseen is the system I wish had existed that night. We are building it now, in Nepal, for Nepal.