One set of records, every handoff.
Boarding, sitters, vet visits, family backup. Pick the moment and PetPacket assembles the right packet from the details you already saved.
For your pet sitter
Daily routines, meals, walks, meds, home notes, and emergency contacts — in one link your sitter actually opens.
See how →Boarding PacketFor boarding & kennels
Vaccine proof, meds, feeding, and contacts in the format facilities expect, ready before drop-off.
See how →Records SummaryFor vet visits
History, medications, and weight in one summary — handy for a new clinic, a referral, or an urgent visit.
See how →Emergency SummaryFor a family emergency
Critical information a relative can act on instantly, even if they have never cared for your pet before.
See how →Same records. Three different pages.
Every packet is built from the details you save once. What changes is which sections are mandatory, which come along, and what lands at the top.
| Section | Boarding | Sitter | Emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pet basicsName, species, age, weight, microchip | Required | Required | Required |
| Vaccines with expiry datesThe line a kennel checks first, and the one a sitter rarely needs | Required | Optional | Optional |
| Feeding planBoarding wants portions; a sitter wants the routine around them | Required | Required | Optional |
| Vet contactSplit from emergency contact on purpose — they are two different people | Required | — | Required |
| Emergency contactSomeone who can authorise treatment when you cannot be reached | Required | Required | Required |
| Care notesThe house-specific detail only a sitter needs | — | Included | — |
| DocumentsCertificates and paperwork, attached when you have them | Included | Included | Included |
| MedicationsPromoted for emergencies, where dose matters before anything else | Optional | Optional | Included |
Required blocks the packet until it is filled in. Included comes along when you have it. Optional is offered and skippable.
Why the difference is the point
The obvious build is one profile page you hand to everybody. It is also the version that fails, because handing a kennel a document that opens with your dog’s bedtime routine means the vaccine dates are somewhere on page two, and check-in is not a page-two moment.
So the packet types are not templates with different headers. They reorder and re-rank. Vaccines are a blocker for boarding and an afterthought for a sitter. Medications sit near the bottom for a sitter and near the top for an emergency. Care notes exist only in the sitter packet, because a kennel has its own routine and does not want yours.
The consequence is the useful bit: you maintain one set of records, and the document reshapes itself for whoever is reading it.
If you would rather start on paper
Every packet type has a free printable equivalent. No email, no account — fill it in by hand and hand it over, or let the app keep the same page current for you.
- 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.
- 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.
Before you pick one.
How the three packets differ, and what the person on the other end needs.
How many packet types are there?
Three: a Boarding Packet, a Sitter Handoff, and an Emergency Summary. Vet visits use the Emergency Summary rather than a fourth type, because a clinic and an emergency contact want the same thing — the medical picture first. Emergency packets are free on every plan; boarding and sitter packets are part of Premium.
Why not just send one document with everything in it?
Because the person reading it is skimming under time pressure, and what they need first differs. A kennel checks vaccine expiry dates at the counter. A sitter needs the daily routine in the order it happens. An emergency vet wants medications and a number to call. One combined document buries all three, and the section that gets missed is whichever one mattered that day.
Does the person receiving it need the app?
No. Every packet is a PDF or a link. Nobody installs anything, makes an account, or logs in — they open it in whatever they already use, or print it and put it on a wall.
What if I have more than one pet?
Each pet gets its own records and its own packets. That is deliberate: a single document covering two animals is one somebody has to interpret under pressure, and the medication line is exactly where that goes wrong. The free plan covers one pet, Premium covers as many as you have.
Be ready for the next handoff.
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