No pet should run out of time for a problem a network could solve.
Forever Home exists because the people doing this work are extraordinary and exhausted. Tools have to add capacity, not paperwork. Trust has to be built in, not bolted on. And every pet deserves a real shot.
Six million animals enter US shelters every year.
Around 597,000 of them don't make it home. Not for lack of love in the country — for lack of connection between the people who already care. Shelters are full. Adopters can't find the right pet. Donors don't know where the money goes. Fosters sit on a waitlist.
That's a coordination problem. That's what software is for.
- Every adoptable pet deserves a real shot at a home.
- Shelters are heroes — software should make their week easier, not harder.
- Trust isn't a feature; it's the product.
- Money should follow the pet, not the overhead.
- Animals everywhere — eventually — deserve this.
A small team. A big mission.
Forever Home is a venture of Aurelic Enterprises — built by people who have shipped consumer software and rescued a few pets along the way.
Brett Thompson
Founder · Business / Product / Engineering
Bonnie-Jill Laflin
Creative & Outreach
From LA to the world.
Phase 1
LA · cats & dogs
Pilot the full network with founding LA shelters. Today.
NowPhase 2
California metros
Extend to SF Bay, San Diego, Sacramento. Same playbook, more lives.
Phase 3
National · all species
Coast to coast. Add rabbits, birds, livestock partners.
Phase 4
Global · rescue pipelines
Direct rescue corridors — including from the meat trade — into qualifying homes.