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Adding and Managing Animal Milestones

Milestones are significant events in the life of an animal and they are also an important part of your recordkeeping for all animals you take into your care.  TYR enables you to record milestones for animals while they are in your care and even after they are adopted, transferred, or released.
 
The instructions on this page explain how to add new milestones and edit or delete existing ones.
 

Important Information about Milestones

When you add a new animal record to TYR, the system automatically creates two milestones from information you enter on the New Animal screen:
 
 
Here are the other milestones you can add to animal records:
 
Milestone
Use when:
Grid location after assigning Milestone
Adoption
One of the PCOs in your database formally adopts an animal
Former Resident
Adoption Return
An adopter is no longer able to keep the animal and returns it to your shelter
Current Resident
Foster
An animal in your care is placed in a foster home while awaiting adoption
Current Resident
Foster Return
A foster "parent" returns an animal to your shelter
Current Resident
Lost
An animal in your care has gone missing
Former Resident
Found
A missing animal in your care has been found and returned to your shelter
Current Resident
Released
An animal that has been in your care is released back into its natural habitat
(Note: Once you save this milestone, you cannot change it.)
Former Resident
Death
An animal in your care has died
Former Resident
Note
You simply want to add a note to the animal's record
Either
Returned to Owner
One of the PCOs in your database is the animal's owner and takes the animal back
Former Resident
Reintake
An animal that was Returned to Owner is brought back to the shelter
Current Resident
Transfer
An animal that has been in your care is transferred to the care of another shelter
Former Resident
        
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                         
As you begin to add milestones, you will notice that sometimes only certain milestones in the list are available for selection. The available choices depend on the animal's most recent milestone associated with some type of movement, such as when you take the animal in (Intake) or when you place it in a foster home (Foster). For example, if the most recent milestone is Adoption, then Adoption Return, Death, Note, and Reintake will be available for selection and the others will be greyed out; if the most recent milestone is Foster, then Foster Return, Lost, Released, Death, Note, Returned to Owner, and Transfer will be available for selection; if the most recent milestone is Transfer, then Note and Reintake will be available for selection; and so on.
 

Adding a New Milestone

 

Editing an Existing Milestone

Deleting a Milestone

 
Important Notes: With the exception of Notes, Milestones must be deleted in sequential order, beginning with the most recent, because of their interdependency. To delete a Birth or Intake milestone, you must delete the entire animal record.