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<!--
  PawVerse — Core pages sitemap.
  Brand, trust, conversion-critical landing surfaces.

  lastmod is the date of the last commit that changed what the page actually
  shows (git log -1 --format=%cs -- <page files>), NOT the day this file was
  edited: Google uses lastmod only on sites where it is consistently accurate,
  and a date in the future of the real change is worse than no date at all.
  Where a page is a renderer over a config file, that config is the source;
  each such entry says so. The index (sitemap.xml) takes the newest lastmod
  here, recomputed on every build by prerender.mjs.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">

  <!-- Homepage -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://pawversepet.com/logo.png</image:loc>
    </image:image>
  </url>

  <!-- About. 2026-09-24: its description stopped selling home visits
       (RouteSeo.jsx); the page body last moved 08-17. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/about</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://pawversepet.com/about-hands.png</image:loc>
    </image:image>
  </url>

  <!-- Founders. The Person entity every byline on the site resolves to. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/about/founder</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-02</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://pawversepet.com/founder.jpg</image:loc>
    </image:image>
  </url>

  <!-- Trust and recognition. lastmod follows src/config/recognitions.js, not
       the page component: the page is a renderer and the config is the content,
       so a new recognition changes what a crawler reads while Recognition.jsx
       stays untouched (last changed 2026-08-17). -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/about/recognition</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-07</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Press kit -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/press</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-02</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Contact -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/contact</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Verified vets listing -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/vets</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- City hub. Listed above the individual cities because it is their parent
       and the internal link that reaches all of them. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/cities</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- City landing pages (local SEO) -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/delhi</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/noida</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/ghaziabad</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/indirapuram</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/faridabad</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/hyderabad</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/bengaluru</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/mumbai</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/pune</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/chennai</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/ahmedabad</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/kolkata</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/jaipur</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/chandigarh</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/lucknow</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/dehradun</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/patna</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-25</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- HTML sitemap (human-readable) -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/sitemap</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
  </url>

  <url>
    <loc>https://pawversepet.com/captain-scout</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>

</urlset>
