🔬 Our Data & Editorial Standards
How ForPetsHealthcare researches, writes, and ranks — and the honesty rules we hold ourselves to.
Who writes our content
Articles are written and edited by Julia Wrenfield, our in-house pet-health writer. She is a researcher and writer — not a veterinarian — and our content is clearly informational, never a substitute for a professional diagnosis. For any medical decision we point you to a licensed vet.
Built on real research
Our health guidance is grounded in a library of over 101,000 indexed scientific studies, each linked back to its source on PubMed so you can read the evidence yourself.
Explore the Research Library →How we rank shelters
Our shelter and rescue rankings are scored from tens of thousands of public Google reviews using a transparent, review-weighted method (Bayesian averaging) — so a place with 500 great reviews outranks one with five, and no organisation can pay to move up.
See the rankings →Tools grounded in vet formulas
Our calculators use established veterinary formulas — resting/maintenance energy (RER/MER) for calories, and size-and-species curves for pet age — not myths like multiplying a dog's age by seven.
Try the tools →Our honesty commitment
We never invent statistics, studies, or credentials. We do not claim veterinary review or partnerships we don't have. When the evidence is uncertain, we say so — and we always tell you to consult your vet in an emergency.
Have a correction or a question about our sources? Write to info@forpetshealthcare.com.