PetCaseFinder

About PetCaseFinder

Peer-reviewed veterinary research, written so a worried pet owner can actually read it.

PetCaseFinder is a research index, not a diagnosis service. We read peer-reviewed veterinary case reports from public scientific databases and translate the abstracts into plain English so pet owners can find cases that look like their pet's — and bring them to their veterinarian.

Every case page on PetCaseFinder corresponds to a real, published veterinary paper with named authors, a real journal, and a citation that points back to the original source. We do not publish original research, we do not write fictional cases, and we do not generate medical advice.

What we actually do

  1. Index public research. Our ingest pipeline pulls veterinary papers from PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, and DOAJ — the same databases vets and researchers use every day. We index 52,501 peer-reviewed papers across 5 databases today, and add new ones every week.
  2. Filter for pets, not lab science. A vet-relevance filter skips human-only clinical research, materials science, and lab-rodent-only experiments before anything is shown to pet owners.
  3. Translate the abstract into plain English. We use a language model to rewrite the academic abstract into a short, clear summary that uses words a pet owner would actually type into Google — "limping" not "lameness", "vomiting" not "emesis", "tumor" not "neoplasia". The translation never invents details the original paper does not contain. Read our full methodology →
  4. Show the original citation prominently. Every case page surfaces the real authors, the journal it was published in, the year, the institution, and a direct link to the paper on PubMed, Europe PMC, or DOI. The translation never replaces the source — it sits next to it.
  5. Help you search across cases. When you describe your pet's symptoms in plain language, we find peer-reviewed cases with similar presentations using semantic search across the corpus, then summarise what treatments were tried across them.

What PetCaseFinder is not

  • Not a diagnosis. Finding a published case that looks like your pet's is a starting point for a conversation with your vet — not a medical conclusion.
  • Not a substitute for a licensed veterinarian. We will never recommend a treatment, a dose, or a course of action for your pet. Every case page links to its source so you can read the original alongside its trained authors' conclusions.
  • Not original research. PetCaseFinder authors are not veterinarians and we do not run clinical studies. The named authors on each case are the people who did the research — we are the index that makes it searchable.
  • Not a content farm. We do not generate articles. Every page on PetCaseFinder is grounded in a real, citable, peer-reviewed paper. If a paper has no veterinary relevance, the page is excluded from the index.

Disclaimer

PetCaseFinder is an information service for pet owners. The content on this site is for educational purposes only. It is not a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a substitute for professional veterinary care. Always consult a licensed veterinarian before acting on anything you find here. PetCaseFinder is not affiliated with PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, or DOAJ — we simply index what those public databases publish.

Get in touch

Spotted an error in a translation? Want to flag a paper that shouldn't be on the site? Email hello@petcasefinder.com. We read every message.