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A freshly printed sheet on a table beside a phone that is switched off
Care guides
Sep 5 · 5 min read

The printable card: what paper is for once you have the digital one.

It sounds like a step backwards and it isn't. There are four specific moments where paper wins, which is why printing is part of the product rather than an accessory.

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A phone face down on a table beside a paper vaccination card
Care guides
Aug 1 · 5 min read

Pet record apps: how to actually compare them.

Feature lists don't help you decide. Seven questions that do — including the three no app answers on its home page. And yes, we're one of them.

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A printed photo of a dog on a table beside an open notebook
Care guides
Jul 18 · 4 min read

World Dog Day: five things worth writing down today.

You're going to post the photo anyway. These five take exactly as long, and in three years they'll be worth far more than the photo.

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A folded sheet of paper held by a magnet on a fridge door
Field notes
Jul 4 · 3 min read

Where the paper card actually lives.

The drawer of everything, the fridge magnet, the folder of important papers, the glovebox. Eight real hiding places, and what each one says about how we think about that piece of paper.

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A manila folder slightly open with printed pages inside, on a table
Care guides
Jun 6 · 5 min read

How to ask your vet for a copy of the file.

The card is your summary. The file is the full document, it lives at the clinic, and most people don't know it exists. When it's worth asking for, and how to ask well.

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A wall calendar with three days marked by hand in coloured circles
Care guides
May 23 · 5 min read

Eight dates about your pet worth writing down.

None of them is a schedule imposed on you from outside. All eight already exist in your pet's life — the only question is whether they're written down or living in one person's memory.

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A new notebook open with a single date written on it, beside an unused collar
Care guides
May 16 · 5 min read

You adopted a dog and know nothing about their past — where to start.

You're not late. You're just without the paper, which is a different thing. What to ask whoever handed them over, what to take to the first appointment, and why the day they arrived is already a record.

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An open drawer of jumbled papers and receipts, mid-search for a document
Care guides
May 9 · 5 min read

You lost the card — how to rebuild the history.

You lost your copy, not the history. Where the other copies are, what to ask for at the clinic, and how to write down what you recover without inventing what's missing.

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A handwritten line on a pet vaccination card, with a pen resting across it
Care guides
May 2 · 4 min read

What belongs on every line of a vaccination card.

Five things per line. Four of them fill themselves in at the counter. The fifth is the one nobody writes down, and it's the only one you'll actually need a year from now.

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A paper vaccination card open on a kitchen table beside a phone
Care guides
Apr 25 · 5 min read

What a digital vaccination card actually is (and why the paper one always goes missing).

It isn't a medical app and it doesn't replace your vet. It's the same paper you already have, kept somewhere it can't get wet, folded, or left behind in the old apartment.

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