I’m Elliott, a veterinarian and farmer in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I’m also a husband, father of five, and Army officer who just can’t stop thinking about how to make life and work better for people like me who love animals.
When I started buying highland cattle and miniature donkeys a few years ago, I honestly couldn’t believe there wasn’t already a modern, secure online marketplace for live animals. So I started building Creatures to solve my own problems, creating a transparent community for buying and selling, while also making it fun and easy to keep up with health, breeding, registrations, and all the other records in one place.
It’s already been a game‑changer for me to have every photo, video, and record in a single profile for each animal. Now I can just copy a link and send it to a potential buyer, another vet, or a friend without having to dig through my photos or track down records every time.
My crazy hope is that Creatures can be the online home for every known and loved animal around the world. I’m glad you’re here!
Amber Sapp I totally understand that! It took me a few weeks to get all my ow animals added here, but now that they are, I find it a lot more fun and easy to regularly update their profiles with photos, videos, and records.
We came across your platform while on of our board members was doing some research on how "beefalo" shows up in difference internet searches. The board members of the American Beefalo Association are all getting familiar with your platform to see how it works and may benefit our membership. Thanks for the outlet, we hope to be able to put it to good use!
This is so great to hear, Amber Sapp! One of my next steps is actually to build out some tools so that an association like yours could use Creatures to manage their whole membership and herdbook. Are you using another platform for that already?
Good to have you here, Tourei Henifin! As you can see, we mostly have highland and other miniature cattle breeders on the platform so far, but that's just because this is the community in which I'm already most connected. I'm excited to meet some of your dogs and puppies here soon!