The place
The business and the location that left it. A stamp from Dundas St. West is a different stamp from the same business's second shop.
Passport stamps
A mark from every place your pet has been.
When a business sees your animal, it can leave a stamp on the passport. The stamp names the place, the date and what happened, and it stays on the record for the life of the pet.
A passport fills in one visit at a time. The groomer, the vet, the sitter and the shop each leave their own mark, and the animal carries the whole set from one business to the next.
What a stamp carries
One stamp is one visit. It lands in the passport's history, where every line is added and none is rewritten.
The date
When the animal was seen. Stamps sit in date order, so the passport reads as a timeline rather than a pile.
What happened
A groom, a check-up, a night's boarding, an adoption. The stamp says what the visit was for, in the words of the place that gave it.
Who left it
The business or professional behind the stamp, and how their standing was checked. The mark carries a badge that names the source.
The species print
A stamp wears the print of the animal it belongs to. A paw, a hoof, a fin. The print attaches to the species, so a stamp on a ball python's passport is not a paw.
Where it lives
On the passport, with the animal. Change groomer, change city, change vet, and the stamps already collected stay where they are.
How you know a stamp is real
Every stamp carries a badge that follows who left it and how their standing was checked. It describes the source, and it is never a score.
The business was checked against the issuing body's own register. This is the strongest mark a stamp can carry.
Left by a professional on a statutory register, checked against it. A licensed vet's stamp carries this, so the badge follows the credential, not the job title.
The badge is the same string everyone sees, the business and the public alike. How the check was done is stored against the stamp, and the outcome is what the badge names.
Stamps gather into collections
A collection counts what already happened. There is no target to hit, no streak to keep and nothing to complete.
Places visited
Every business that has left a stamp, counted. Six groomers over five years is a fact about the animal's life, not a leaderboard.
Cities stayed in
Where the stamps were left, on a map or a list. A pet that moved from Toronto to Vancouver carries both, in order.
Kinds of care
Grooming, veterinary, boarding, training, sitting. The collection groups the stamps by what the visit was, so the shape of an animal's care is legible at a glance.
A founding stamp
The first hundred animals carry a founding stamp permanently, and an animal adopted from a registered rescue carries the rescue's mark. Both are part of the set, not a prize.
What a stamp is not
A stamp records that a visit happened. It does not grade it, rank it, or hand it to anyone the household did not choose.
Not a rating
A stamp is not a star or a review. It says the visit happened, and it leaves the opinion of it to a review, which is a separate thing.
Not owned by the business
The business keeps its own visit history. The stamp on the passport belongs to the animal, and it stays after the business is gone.
Not a score
Counting stamps is arithmetic, and the count is shown with the stamps behind it. Nothing here predicts anything or ranks one animal against another.
Start a passport and let it fill in
The first stamp arrives the first time a business on Petworking sees your animal. A name and a species is all it takes to have the passport ready for it.