“Clueless Murder”

The issue that this application addresses is people's ignorance when it involves cat care. Most people make abrupt choices about getting a pet without taking into account what the animal may actually need. The importance of this is when people find themselves unable to care for their pets, they tend to abandon them, leaving them emotionally starved. Putting them most of the time in kill shelters, where the cats are neglected and eventually killed if not adopted.

The app itself allows users to teach themselves about basic cat care while simultaneously carrying out their own studies on various cats of interest.Along with all of this important information (ways to help) users may also complete questionnaires to assess their knowledge, allowing them to maintain what they've learned.And also play a cute simple game involving cats.The reason why this app will help address the problem i mentioned earlier is because it can allow people to know what they are getting themselves into before adopting a cat.Reducing the chance that they won't be able to take care of it.

I created this design based on real-life events. I had a friend who had begged her mom for a kitten for months. Once they had adopted one, they had no idea how to care for it and decided to send it to a kill shelter. This disturbed me enough that I decided to create an app to address this ongoing problem hoping to gain support from others. While looking into animal shelters, I noticed a consistent reference of animal cruelty.This is horrifying to consider, given that the animals have no method of preventing or defending themselves from the awful situations in which they find themselves.I've also noticed that this type of cruelty is more widespread in cats than in dogs.As a cat lover, this upset me even more. I haven't seen much about this recurring problem, therefore I believe my design may be useful. It work by being a chain of pages that can be traversed with the use of buttons if i were to develop this app i would without a doubt add more information, sounds, and improve the mini game.

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To provide more context for my project, my main motivation came from witnessing a friend abandon her kitten not because she didn't have the space to care for it, not because she didn't have the money to care for it. But only because she was unaware of what she needed to carry out to take care of a kitten.So I wanted to make sure that the important information that someone looking to adopt a kitten/older cat would want to know was included in my application. And being absolutely sure I present this information in a clear and understandable manner. As a result, people can educate themselves and reduce the number of cats killed in shelters and abandoned on the streets.