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# What is Creatures?

Creatures is an online home for people who care for, raise, breed, buy, sell, and work with animals. It connects each animal's profile and records with the people, organizations, services, and transactions around them.

You can join for free and use only the parts that fit what you do. A pet owner, breeder, farm, rescue, service provider, association, and show organizer can all use the same account without following the same path.

## Keep an animal's story together

Add an animal once, then build on the same profile over time. Photos, pedigree, health and care records, breeding history, registrations, show results, listings, and other activity stay connected to that animal instead of being scattered across separate files and apps.

![Animal profile navigation showing Posts, Gallery, Pedigree, and Reviews](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/92f/dd9/9cd/15cbb.png?width=1760)

Profiles can be public when you want people to discover an animal, private when the information is only for your team, or used as a lineage reference when you are documenting family history.

## Find animals and animal professionals

Use the **Marketplace** to browse animals and genetics, compare listings, save searches, ask questions, apply, bid, buy, or make an offer. Buying and selling steps stay connected to messages, payment status, transport, handoff, and the animal's next owner.

![Marketplace search and Filters showing 3 animals, the full Magnus of Glen Lyon listing, and the next listing photo](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/7a9/7fa/a52/39a03.png?width=1760)

Use the **Directory** to find breeders, farms, registries, transporters, and other animal professionals. Follow people and organizations whose animals or work you want to see in your home feed.

![Claimed cattle breeder result with About and Animals links](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/9e8/476/81a/e9ec9.png?width=1760)

## Run your animal work

An organization profile gives a farm, business, rescue, club, or association its own public presence and team. Depending on what you do, Creatures can also help with listings, applications, services and bookings, breeding, records, finances, a public website, registries, or shows.

You do not need to set up everything at once. Start with the task that brought you here.

## A good first step

- If you are new, [create your account or sign in](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-your-account-and-signing-in-1a6d30c/).
- If you care for animals, [add your first animal](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/adding-an-animal-to-creatures-jbkkre/).
- If you run a farm or business, [create an organization and add your team](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-an-organization-and-adding-your-team-15zqme2/).
- If you want to explore first, [use the personalized home screen](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-home-screen-and-getting-started-1pvqu49/) or open the [Learn Center](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/what-is-the-learn-center-and-how-is-it-different-from-help-faq-6ivfd0/).

### Related information

- [Your home screen and getting started](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/your-home-screen-and-getting-started-1pvqu49/)
- [Creating your account and signing in](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-your-account-and-signing-in-1a6d30c/)