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I would store both animal and people data in CiviCRM

create a sub-type of individual called Animal (which kinda makes sense from  darwinian point of view)

create a relationship between the animal (pet) and the person (owner)

a better model and data is all in CiviCRM

lobo

If I create a sub-type wouldn't that mean the 'animal' would have all the personal information that a 'person' would, eg email address, phone number, etc?  That wouldn't make sense.  The only relationships is that the animal may have an ex-owner, have foster owner, etc.

When you say 'custom' module, does that mean one doesn't exist as a contributed module?

> Don't underestimate the level of common sense of pet owner

I would never do that.  I work for an animal charity and trying to find a solution for the vets to store information about new animal intakes, their veterinary records as well as previous owners, and if the animal has gone out to foster, etc

I think CiviCRM might be too heavily set for people so what I'm looking for is quite the reverse.

I did create a sub-type of Individual called Animal and set up two relationships of Owner and Foster Owner.

When creating a new Individual > Animal, there is an awful lot of empty fields that are not relevant to an animal, but there are a lot of additional fields I would need to add, such as admission date, passport ID, chip numbers, etc

To pass this on to a user as it is for adding new Animals would confuse them because I can foresee them thinking the contact details being asked (eg email, adress, etc) could be taken it meas the contact details for the owner when in fact those fields are for the Animal.

In installed webform CiviCRM yesterday to play around with.  I was getting all sorts of unexpected errors, but will give it another go.

Did you use the webform civiCRM as well?  I've tried this and by default it looks like the animal name becomes the user name, so a contact is set up that way in civiCRM.  I must be missing the point somewhere 

I also set up previously the sub-type
Individual > Animal

So the webform is set up with primary contact type as Individual with type of individual as Animal.
 
I need a solution that the equine charity I work for can input data about an animal admitted into it's care.  That animal can stay in our care for years, but it can also go out on foster, or return from foster.  Supporters also register an interest so we want to keep track of a relationship between the animal and supporter, as well as animal and foster owner.

The Animal page needs to show the Animal's friend as normally equines come in from homes in pairs as well as current contacts (list of owner, foster owner if out on loan, interested supporter, etc)

If an owner calls, then entering their name into the system needs to show all the animals listed under that person and links to go in both directions from Animal to Owner and Owner to Animal.

I'd love to use civiCRM for this - perhaps the penny just hasn't dropped yet!