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Pets: keeping track of the animals in your life

Dogs and cats are part of your thriving. Here is how to add yours, keep their care details in one place, and send a care sheet to a sitter.

Written by Brian Fluhr

To use My Pets, sign in first.

This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.

Pets are not a side note. For many older adults, a dog or a cat is one of the most important relationships in the house. A reason to get up. A reason to come home. A small warm body to talk to at the end of a long day.

SeniorThrive has a quiet, simple place to keep their care details: vet visits, medications, and sitter info, always within reach.

My Pets is part of Essential, and pauses on the Free plan.

Where to find it

Open Daily Life and tap My Pets, under Your furry friends.

Adding a pet

  1. Tap Add Your First Pet, or Add Another Pet if you already have one.

  2. Choose Dog or Cat and fill in Pet's Name. Breed, age and weight are optional, and you can add a photo.

  3. The form walks you through short steps: Basic Info, Vet Details, Vaccines & Meds, Insurance, Daily Care, and Review. Fill in what you know and skip the rest.

  4. Tap Add Pet at the end.

You can add more than one pet. A household of one cat. A pack of three rescues. Both welcome.

What you can keep

  • Vet details. Your veterinarian's name, phone and address.

  • Vaccines and medications. Vaccination dates with the next date due, and any medications with dosage and schedule. Your pet's card shows when a vaccine is coming up, due soon, or overdue.

  • Daily care. Feeding instructions, exercise needs, behavior notes, and anything else worth knowing. Useful when a family member or a pet sitter is covering for you.

  • Insurance. Provider, policy number, and claims phone, if there is a policy.

  • The people who help. Pet guardians for an emergency, your pet sitters, and your Pet Care Wishes for who should look after your pet if you cannot.

Pet-sitter info in one place

On your pet's card, tap Share with pet sitter. SeniorThrive puts together a care sheet with your pet's name, your vet, and the daily care instructions you wrote. Private details stay out unless you tick them. Then send it by text, by email, or copy it. You can also tap Print care card for a paper copy.

Getting specific

Dogs and cats have different rhythms. See the separate articles Adding a dog to SeniorThrive and Adding a cat to SeniorThrive.

Sharing your pets with the family

The people in your Circle can also see your pets, if you choose to share them in Settings, under Privacy & Sharing. And a photo in Shared Photos every time the cat does something absurd is always welcome.

The routine of caring for an animal is one of the most grounded, good things in a day, and it is worth having somewhere to keep it.

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