Digital record keeping designed around the five UK Animal Activities Licence categories — boarding, breeding, riding, exhibition, and animal display. Everything your local authority inspector expects to see, generated automatically from the day-to-day records your team already puts in.
The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) 2018 Regulations require detailed record-keeping for each licence type. Paper and spreadsheets create gaps that cost licence stars. Animal Database UK gives you a single source of truth that inspectors can be walked through in under an hour.
Every animal on your licence with identification, sex, DOB, source, previous owner, arrival and disposal records. Meets the record-keeping schedule for all five AAL categories.
Vaccination and medication history, welfare checks, weight tracking and body-condition scoring. Timestamped and attributable to the staff member who recorded them.
Boarding and day-care operators get a bookings register per animal, with owner details, arrival and departure times, contact numbers and emergency vet on file.
Digital training matrix per employee — DBS, first aid, licence-specific training, refresher dates. Renewal reminders fire before certificates expire.
Digital accident book, incident reporting and RIDDOR workflow. Everything an inspector wants to see about a past event is on one page.
Store risk assessments per activity, per enclosure or per event. Review-date reminders keep them from going stale.
Built-in site register with QR-code sign-in, so every visitor and staff member is on the daily headcount and the roll-call print-out.
Central library for policies, standard operating procedures and vet-agreed protocols with review dates and staff-read confirmations.
Native iOS and Android app for keepers so bookings, sign-ins and welfare checks can be recorded from a phone anywhere on site.
Every regulatory checkpoint on the AAL inspection framework is a feature in the platform. You do not need to keep separate binders — the evidence is one click away.
If you hold or are applying for an Animal Activities Licence in England or Wales, the AAL tier fits.
The questions AAL holders and applicants typically ask before they choose a platform.
The Animal Activities Licence (AAL) is a UK licence issued by local authorities under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 (and equivalent Welsh regulations). It covers five activities: selling animals as pets, providing boarding for cats or dogs, hiring out horses, dog breeding, and keeping or training animals for exhibition. Each licence type has minimum records the holder must keep and produce for annual inspection.
AAL holders must keep animal records (identification, sex, age, source, movements), medical treatment records, staff training records, risk assessments, feeding and welfare logs, incident reports, and evidence of the specific requirements for their activity (e.g. dam and sire records for breeding, bookings and induction for boarding). Animal Database UK covers all of these in one platform and auto-generates the paperwork inspectors ask for.
Yes. The star rating (1 to 5) is set by the local authority inspector partly on the completeness and quality of records. Digital record keeping with a full audit trail, time-stamped welfare logs and comprehensive training records typically scores higher than paper. The platform makes it easy to produce the evidence bundle inspectors ask for in seconds.
Yes. The platform supports dog day-care operators with animal profiles (dietary needs, medical, behaviour), booking and attendance records, staff training logs, incident recording and site register sign-in for the daily headcount. Everything a day-care licence inspector expects to see is captured.
Yes. The AAL tier is specifically priced for licence holders below the zoo threshold — small boarding kennels, home-based breeders, single-site exhibits, one-yard riding schools. The features scale down to what a small holder actually needs without paying for the full zoo-standards engine.
For animal display licences, the platform tracks each display animal individually with its acclimation, training progress, welfare score, feeding, health and travel records. Every display or educational session can be logged with public numbers, weather, session length and welfare outcomes for inspection evidence.
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