# Animals

The **Animals** tab at the top of your account page opens a drop-down menu to many of the management features you can use to manage your animals. Two of the most commonly accessed topics are the **Animal List** and **Add an Animal**.


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**Where do I find it?**

 The **Animals** tab is at the top of your account page.

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Use the **Animals** menu to add animals to your website and manage all the information available about them. The management features available for animals differ according to your level of service.

Managing information about your animals is made easy with some basic good practices. The chapters in this section will help you to add animals, pictures, videos, and descriptions, and to track the animals through your organization from intake to adoption.



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We provide a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for you to use when you add animal descriptions. For a full description of this editor, see [WYSIWYG Editor](/doc/62a0934e-42f6-4904-887a-a4bad6187719) . 

This editor allows you to use text formatting features such as bold, italics, underscore, and to select fonts and sizes for the content. You can also add images, video, links to external or internal content.

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The following chart shows you the minimal steps for managing an adoptable animal.

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**Documents**

- [Add, Update, and Delete Animal Records](https://guides.rescuegroups.org/s/4a2c57ff-3678-4bc0-8cf0-d6d45df023da/doc/add-update-and-delete-animal-records-w83aSXvbuS)
- [Manage your Animals](https://guides.rescuegroups.org/s/4a2c57ff-3678-4bc0-8cf0-d6d45df023da/doc/manage-your-animals-Wpslj3o9bV)
- [Animal Settings for Portal](https://guides.rescuegroups.org/s/4a2c57ff-3678-4bc0-8cf0-d6d45df023da/doc/animal-settings-for-portal-d8dYnd4Z5j)