Your animal's profile page: the tabs and what each one does

Every animal has a profile page, and once you know how it is laid out you can find anything about that animal in a click. This article tours the page: the hero at the top, then each tab in the row beneath it, what it shows, and who is allowed to see it.

The hero

The top of the page is the hero: the main photo, the animal's name and handle, a line of species, breed, sex, and color, the owner shown as an actor chip you can hover for a card, and the follow and contact controls. For an animal you own or co-own, the hero also carries the controls to edit the profile and to create a listing.

When an animal's birthplace was brought in from imported records, a Birthplace line appears near the top of the profile. It can carry a small trust badge when the origin is verified, or read "Origin disputed" (shown to you, the owner, as "Under review") when a claimed birthplace is contested, so where an animal came from is shown with how confident Creatures is about it.

The hero also has a Share button for sending the profile around. For a private animal it shares with a generic title ("Private animal on Creatures") so the animal's name is never exposed to anyone who is not allowed to see the profile.

Owner actions on your own animal

For an animal you own or co-own, the profile's owner controls include a menu of less-common actions:

• Report duplicate: flag another profile that is really the same animal, so it can be reviewed.
• Merge with another profile (owners and co-owners): combine a duplicate into this animal so two entries become one, with the photos, records, and pedigree ending up on a single profile. If you manage both profiles, the merge happens right away. If the other profile belongs to someone else, Creatures sends that owner a request to approve the merge first, so an animal never merges without its owner's agreement.
• Transfer ownership: hand the animal to a new owner, where the transfer feature is available.
• Remove from my animals: take the animal off your account.

Remove is not a hard delete. Choosing it opens a short "What's happening?" step with three paths:

• Sold or rehomed to someone else: start a transfer so the new owner can carry the animal's records forward (they do not need a Creatures account yet).
• This animal has passed away: mark the animal as deceased, with the option to create a memorial, and stay connected to the profile.
• I just want this profile off my account: the profile stays on Creatures as a public reference, so its pedigree records are preserved for the family trees of other animals.

If you genuinely need a profile deleted outright, the step has a "Contact us" link for that. The implication: removing an animal is about your relationship to it, not erasing it from the herdbook.

The side panels

Alongside the tabs, down the side of the profile, are two panels that stay put whichever tab you are on:

• Official Registration: the animal's breed-registry entries, in summary. The full detail of how registrations work lives in Pedigree, family, and lineage.
• Identification: the animal's permanent IDs, so a vet, a registry, or a buyer can confirm they are looking at the right animal.

The Identification panel lists the animal's identifiers by kind: microchip, EID (electronic ID), tattoo, ear tag, brand, and DNA profile. Each one shows its number, how well it is evidenced (the same rising scale used elsewhere, from owner attested up to registrar verified), and whether it is Public or Private. A public identifier helps others verify the animal; a private one stays with you and your team. Owners and anyone who can manage records can Add identifier and edit the ones already there. Microchip and EID numbers are treated as unique to a single animal, which is what makes them dependable for verification.

The tabs

Beneath the hero is a row of tabs. Which tabs appear depends on the animal and on who is looking, so a brand-new animal shows a leaner row than a fully built-out one. Here is each tab, what it holds, and who sees it:

• Posts: the animal's feed of updates, with a composer for the owner and team. It is the default tab for most viewers. The implication: if an animal has no posts yet, a non-owner opens on the Gallery instead, so the page never lands on an empty feed.
• Gallery: every photo of the animal. Owners, team members, and a reference animal's referencer can add and remove photos; everyone else views them. The implication: this is where the rest of the animal's photos live once the main photo is set.
• Records: the animal's health, care, and identity records. The public sees only records marked public; owners, team, and active stewards see them all. This tab is also where Registration and Pedigree records live, and where the animal's show results appear. The implication: the paperwork side of an animal lives here, separate from the relationship graph on the Pedigree tab. See The animal records tab.
• Pedigree: the multi-generation ancestry graph. It is visible to anyone who can see the animal (and returns a not-found for a private animal a viewer is not allowed to see). This tab appears once the animal has any recorded sire, dam, or offspring, so an animal with no family yet does not show it. The implication: add a parent or a child and the Pedigree tab appears. It is covered in Pedigree, family, and lineage.
• History: the animal's ownership history and any signed agreements. It appears when the ownership-transfer feature is available, and the detail is owner and steward gated. The implication: treat this tab as "when available", because it is feature-controlled and a given deployment may not show it.
• Finance: the animal's cost basis, valuation, and Crestimate. It is owner-side and signed-in only, and never appears on a reference animal (which has no owner). The implication: this is your private financial view of the animal. See What is a Crestimate?.
• Groups: the groups the animal belongs to, such as a litter or a herd. It is owner-side, signed-in, and feature-gated. The implication: use groups to manage related animals together. See Create and manage animal groups.
• Breeding: the Breeding Hub for the animal. It is owner and team gated, and appears only once the animal has breeding activity. The implication: a non-breeding animal does not show this tab, so do not expect it on every profile.
• Memorial: a tribute page. It appears for a deceased animal with a published memorial, and becomes the default tab when it is viewable. The implication: this is how a passed animal is remembered. See Creating a memorial for an animal.
• Reviews: reviews left on the animal, where applicable. The implication: it surfaces feedback tied to the animal.

Show results on the Records tab

If an animal has any recorded show placings, they appear in a Show results panel at the top of the Records tab (and on the animal's marketplace listing, if it has one, drawn from the same source so the two never disagree).

Each result shows the show and date, the class entered and where the animal placed, the judge, and any award such as Grand Champion, along with a count of any championship "legs" earned. As the owner you get an eye control on each result to hide an individual placing from public view without deleting it. The implication: an animal's win record lives on the profile next to its papers, and you decide which placings are shown publicly.

Who sees what, in one picture

The visibility model is consistent across the tabs:

• A public animal shows the public-safe tabs to everyone, and the public sees only the public records, photos, and pedigree.
• A private animal shows a placeholder to anyone who is not you, your team, or an allowed party, so its tabs are not browsable by the public.
• A reference animal hides the owner-only tabs (Finance, Groups, Breeding, History) because it has no owner, and keeps the shared tabs like Pedigree.

So the same page adapts to the animal and the viewer. If a tab you expect is missing, it is almost always because the animal has not generated that kind of content yet, or because the tab is owner-side and you are viewing as someone else. To create an animal in the first place, see Adding an animal to Creatures; to give someone else access to these tabs, see Co-owners and team members: sharing access to an animal.

Related information

• Adding an animal to Creatures
• Pedigree, family, and lineage
• Co-owners and team members: sharing access to an animal

Updated on: 17/07/2026