Pet emergency card
Cut it out and keep it where someone will find it — for the person who has your pet when you don't.
There are two different emergencies here and they need two different cards. In the first, something happens to you: you are in an ambulance and nobody knows there is a dog at home. In the second, something happens to your pet while someone else has them, and that person needs numbers fast.
This sheet has both. The alert card goes in your wallet, where a first responder will look. The care card goes to whoever holds your spare key, or on the fridge. Print a second copy if you have a second animal — one card listing two pets is a card somebody has to interpret under pressure.
Everything it asks for.
Print it and write on it, or copy the fields into whatever you already use.
Pet
Medical, in one line each
Short beats complete here. Someone is reading this while holding a phone.
Who to call
Authorisation
Second card — for your wallet
This one is not about your pet's care. It exists so a stranger going through your wallet learns there are animals at home waiting for someone.
When the paper stops keeping up
PetPacket's Emergency Summary is this card with nothing out of date on it — medical details, vet and after-hours numbers, medications and microchip, generated from records you keep once.
Worth reading alongside it: organizing your pet’s vaccine records.
The other templates
- Pet sitter instructions template — Everything a sitter needs, on two sides — printed, or filled in on screen and handed over as a PDF.
- Dog sitter checklist — The dog-specific version — walks, recall, lead manners, and what a stranger needs to know.
- Dog vaccine record template — Every shot a kennel asks about, already printed. You fill in two dates per row.
- Pet vaccination record template — One sheet with every vaccine, the date it was given, and the date it lapses.
- Dog boarding form — What the kennel asks for at check-in, filled in before you get there.
About this template.
What to put in it, and what people usually leave out.
What is a pet emergency card?
Two things share the name. One is an alert card you carry, telling anyone who finds it that pets are at home alone and who to call — the version emergency services and first responders look for. The other is a care card about the pet itself: medications, allergies, vet and after-hours numbers, microchip, and whether treatment is authorised. This template prints both, because they answer different emergencies.
Where should each card go?
The alert card belongs in your wallet, next to your ID, because that is where someone looks when you cannot answer questions. The care card belongs on the fridge and with whoever holds your spare key. A copy in the car covers the gap between the two.
Do I need one card per pet?
Yes. Medications and conditions differ, and a card listing two animals is a card someone has to interpret under pressure. Print a second copy and fill it in separately.
Fill it in once. Hand it over every time.
PetPacket keeps your pet's records in one place and builds the same page whenever you need it — current doses, current vaccines, current vet.
