Help and consequences
Choose the safest path first. Public help can create review evidence, but contact, image, match, custody, and closure decisions stay governed.
Safety first
Contact local emergency, vet, shelter, rescue, warden, or animal-welfare help first. TrackTail is not emergency dispatch.
Contact local emergency, vet, shelter, rescue, warden, or animal-welfare help first. Keep yourself safe and use a public landmark instead of a private address.
When it is safe, send public-safe lost, found, sighting, or welfare-concern details so reviewers have evidence to triage.
TrackTail is not emergency dispatch. A report does not send rescuers, give medical or legal advice, reveal private contact, or guarantee immediate response.
Fast route
Pick the situation that matches what you know now. Each path creates reviewable context or guidance without turning public help into contact reveal, ownership proof, emergency dispatch, or final authority.
Use a sighting when you are not holding the animal, it moved away, or approaching it is unsafe.
Reviewers get public-safe place, time, direction, condition, and optional photo context.
Does not dispatch rescue, make you responsible, expose private contact, or publish exact live location.
Use status when you need to add safe follow-up, photo/contact intent, correction, or outcome context.
TrackTail can connect your update to an existing public reference for review.
Does not prove ownership or custody, close a case, reveal contact, or edit the public record automatically.
Use possible match when public-safe facts look connected but you are not claiming ownership.
Reviewers get a comparison hint and can decide whether more evidence is needed.
Does not confirm a match, merge records, contact anyone, or decide who owns or holds the animal.
Use safety/privacy help for exact addresses, contact details, unsafe images, spam, or harassment.
You can route the concern to review without repeating private details in public text.
Does not delete, hide, edit, sanction, or dispatch emergency help automatically.
Use the AI explainer when a page mentions TrackTail AI, confidence, review, or escalation.
You see what TrackTail AI can prepare and when human reviewers must decide.
AI does not confirm ownership, decide custody, reveal contact, or make high-risk final decisions alone.
Use volunteer help for safe public actions: sightings, public links, problem reports, and status follow-up.
You get immediate public-safe options without needing protected task access.
Does not grant volunteer authority, task access, contact access, dispatch, sanctions, or final decisions.