Owner resilience and home health

What information should follow your dog?

One private handover record for temporary carers and longer-term arrangements.

Include what care requires

Record identity, chip/database details where needed privately, veterinary history, current medicines/allergies, diet, routine, mobility, handling and behaviour. Include fears, escape risks, resource guarding, other animals and children. Accurate information matters more than describing the dog as simply “friendly”.

Share appropriately

Give necessary records directly to the agreed carer, veterinary practice or reputable organisation. Explain insurance and emergency contact/authority arrangements without disclosing passwords or banking details. Confirm microchip keeper changes only when an actual transfer is agreed; temporary care is not automatically ownership transfer.

Keep medicines and records aligned

Attach the current prescription instructions rather than retyping an uncertain dose. Update after treatment changes and check the recipient understands them. This shared record prevents separate temporary and permanent plans from conflicting. Safe handover · Identification and transfer responsibilities.

What information should follow your dog?

Fill in privately and print using your browser’s Print or Share menu, or print blank and write by hand. No submission, account, automated interpretation or website storage. Entries may be restored by your browser; use a private device and clear them afterwards. Printed/downloaded copies can contain sensitive information: keep them secure. Avoid access codes, bank details and unnecessary personal health details.

Dog identity/description; chip database and private record locationRegular and emergency vet; relevant historyCurrent labelled medicines, last doses, storage and vet adviceAllergies and prescribed diet/feeding routineToileting, walking, sleep and mobility needsHandling, fears/triggers, escape risks and bite/guarding historyCompatibility/required separation: children and other animalsInsurance contact and agreed emergency decision/cost arrangementsCarer/contact; handover date and next update

Next steps

Pet-Care Continuity Planning

Evidence and review

Owner information, not diagnosis, an individual dose or personal legal advice. Follow the treating veterinary team’s plan. Legal, medicine-supply and poison-service statements apply only to the labelled jurisdiction; general care principles do not establish local rules.