About Paw Multiverse
Paw Multiverse is published by A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd, in Nicosia, Cyprus. We keep a record of pet food recalls read from five official registers across four countries, including the alerts an authority has since taken down, and a directory of who to call when an animal is poisoned, in 34 countries. We are not vets, and nothing here is veterinary advice.
What we do
We keep four things. A record of pet food recalls read on a schedule from five official registers: the US FDA, the Canadian recalls register, the UK Food Standards Agency and the French RappelConso. Every entry is dated the day we read it and kept after the authority takes its own notice down.
A way to check the bag in your hand. Type the barcode or the lot code printed on the packaging and we search all four countries at once. We also publish, per country, how many recall notices carry a barcode at all, so that no match is never mistaken for safe.
A directory of who to call when an animal is poisoned, 43 services in 34 countries, each read from the website of the organisation that runs it and dated. Seven national poison centres state in writing that they do not take animal calls. That is in the directory too, because knowing there is nobody to ring is the answer you need before you need it.
A food safety library and free calculators, for the everyday questions: is this food safe for this species, pet age conversion, daily food portions, chocolate toxicity triage, and the real annual cost of owning a pet.
All of it is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with no key and no sign-up. There is an OpenAPI description at /openapi.json, JSON at /wp-json/mv/v1/, and an MCP server so an AI assistant can query it directly. If you are a shop, a clinic, a shelter or an app and you want the recall check inside your own product, take it. We ask only that you name where it came from.
The full terms, including what is never for sale, are on the partner page.
What we are not
We are not vets, and Paw Multiverse is not a veterinary service. Our role is to give you fast, accurate general information and to point you to a professional when it matters. If your pet is unwell or ate something dangerous, skip the reading and call your vet - that advice appears on every page of this site, because it’s the most important sentence we publish.
Get in touch
Spotted an error? Want a food or tool added? We genuinely want to hear it - contact us here. Paw Multiverse is part of the Multiverse family of sites.
Why we built this
Most pet questions are not asked calmly. They are asked at eleven at night, one handed, while the thing that should not have been eaten has already been eaten. What comes back is usually one of three things: a forum thread with six confident and contradictory answers, a page that buries the one fact you need under a thousand words of preamble, or a page that wants to sell you something before it will tell you anything.
Paw Multiverse was built to be the fourth thing. Short where short is honest. Long where the detail genuinely changes what you do. Free, with nothing to sell you, and always pointing at the person who is actually qualified to help.
What we publish
Three kinds of page, and we try to keep the difference between them obvious.
A food safety library. Common household foods, checked separately for dogs, cats and rabbits, because the answer genuinely differs by species. Each entry says what is published about that food, what is not published, and which of those two situations you are in.
Reference tables. Airline pet policies, pet travel rules by country, what owning a dog costs across sixteen countries. Every figure is attributed to the organisation that published it, with the date we read it.
Tools. Calculators, checklists and printable cards that run entirely inside your browser. Nothing you type into one is transmitted anywhere. You do not have to take that on trust; you can view the page source and confirm it.
How we decide what a page is allowed to say
We publish what a publisher of record publishes, and we say so plainly when nobody publishes it.
That second half is the unusual part, and it is the part we care most about. Where a veterinary reference publishes a threshold, we quote it, name the reference and give the date. Where no reference publishes one, we say that on the page rather than filling the gap with a number borrowed from a blog, from a hospital chain marketing library, or from another site that also borrowed it. Several of our pages state, on their face, that a figure does not exist. Those statements are deliberate. A confident number that nobody stands behind is worse than an admitted gap, because you would act on it.
We prefer primary publishers: veterinary reference works, peer reviewed journals, statutory authorities, and whichever body actually levies a fee or writes a rule. We reject commercial aggregators and consumer content libraries. Where a source is weaker than we would like, the page names the cell that rests on it.
We date what we read. Pages carry the date the underlying source was last checked, and where different rows were checked on different days they carry different dates. There is deliberately no single global freshness stamp on this site, because one date covering many sources is a claim we cannot support.
Who this is for
Owners, not clinicians. People who want to understand what is actually known about a question before they act on it, and who would rather be told that the evidence is thin than be given a tidy answer that is not supported. If you want a number to make a decision look settled, this is the wrong site. If you want to know who published that number and when, this is the right one.
How this site is funded
Paw Multiverse is free to use and carries advertising. We take no money from any vet, insurer, breeder, food manufacturer, pharmacy or retailer in exchange for what a page says, and no page here earns a commission on what you decide to do. If that ever changes it will be disclosed on the page it affects, not buried in a policy nobody reads.
Telling us we are wrong
We would rather be corrected than be consistent. If a figure is out of date, a source has moved, a table is missing a country, or a page reads like advice when it should read as a route to your vet, please tell us. Corrections are made on the page itself, with the old value quoted and the date it changed, so you can see what we got wrong instead of watching it quietly disappear.
