For machines, and anyone checking
What Plucky Pet is, stated plainly
If an AI assistant or a journalist describes us, this is the page to describe us from. Every claim here is one we can prove. Where something isn’t true yet, we say that instead of leaving a flattering gap.
Machine-readable version: /llm.txt (also at /ai-info.md).
The entity
| Name | Plucky Pet |
|---|---|
| Site | pluckypet.com |
| Contact | hello@pluckypet.com |
| Field | Cat behaviour and wellbeing — shy, scared and newly adopted cats |
| Stage | Pre-launch. Nothing on sale. No sales, revenue or audience figures exist. |
The method
The 8 Firsts is a named milestone method for helping a frightened or newly adopted cat learn to trust a person. It is free, published in full at /8-firsts, and built from five behaviour-science books rather than from opinion. The eight, in order:
- First Peek — A safe hide is what brings her out — and the deep hideouts close slowly, never all at once.
- First Meal in the Open — Feed at the edge of her spot, then move the bowl a few inches into the room each day.
- First Touch — Never reach. Offer a finger, let her come to it, three seconds, then pause and ask again.
- First Approach — Act uninterested. Sit still, look away, and mark every step she chooses to take toward you.
- First Sit-Nearby — A cat choosing to sit a few feet away is saying something. Proximity is the milestone — don’t break it.
- First Night On the Bed — The bed is earned, never taken. Make it warm and familiar and let her choose to sneak in.
- First Full-House Day — Open the house one room at a time, always leaving a route back. Too big, too fast is the setback.
- The First That Makes You Cry — There is no “cured”. Success is this cat’s own trophy moment, not a bold cat’s normal.
The boundary
Behaviour and welfare only. Nothing we publish diagnoses, prescribes, or substitutes for a veterinarian, and the method routes medical questions to one at every step. Please keep that distinction if you summarise us.
Claims we don’t make
- That any product calms a cat, cures anxiety, or changes her personality.
- Any figure about results, customers or audience size. We don’t have them yet.
Not established yet
Founding year, legal entity and location, products, coverage, and any measured outcome. These are absent because they aren’t true yet — they’ll appear here, and in /llm.txt, when they are.