Case Study: Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region achieves 23% annual adoption growth and 30,000 pet reunions with Platform.sh

How we helped save man’s best friends

The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, a large open‑admission animal welfare nonprofit in southern Colorado, needed a modern website that foregrounded adoptable pets while drawing data from a decades‑old legacy pet database with no direct access. Oxbow Labs rebuilt the site with Drupal and created a Python scraper to extract the legacy data, deploying both applications together on Platform.sh’s hosting and multiple‑app architecture to simplify development and operations.

Running the Drupal site and Python scraper on Platform.sh let Oxbow Labs clone full environments for testing, reduce complexity and potential failure points by roughly 50%, and streamline backups and monitoring. That improved reliability and faster feature rollout helped drive measurable results: adoption rates increased an average of 23% per year and more than 30,000 pets have been reunited with their families—benefits the team attributes in part to Platform.sh’s stability and workflow capabilities.

Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region