Show more animal stats and pictures next to captioned image

[jrunning]

Since the goal of the site is to get more animals adopted, I think we should give users more information about the animal on captioned image pages. I think we should show thumbnails of the other photos of the animal (with, perhaps, the option to caption them) and a couple details like the animal's name and age. I think this could be done in a fun, friendly way, e.g. "Hi, I'm Kara and I'm a 5-year-old beagle. I've been waiting for a new human for more than a month!"

Obviously we shouldn't duplicate all of the information from the Animal Center web site, but I think a little more information can help users form an immediate, if small, connection to the animal that may drive more adoptions.

[benjaminoakes]

Definitely, I like this idea a lot!

@breahnag Maybe this is something to keep in mind if you end up doing any wireframes etc.

/cc @rocketmower

[rocketmower]

Yes I would like to do some images for the top/bottom/corners or wherever they are needed. Also a nice chilled out background that supports the theme of pet love.

[jrunning]

FYI I started working on an Animal model to enable us to do some of these things (e.g. show animal-specific info and other photos of the same animal on captioned image pages). Feel free to take a look and let me know if you have any feedback (right now it's just a model and a migration that does some scraping to get Name, Age, etc.): jrunning/animal_center@724aef4.