Health diary and reminders

So a due date speaks up before you forget it — and so the history is at hand at the vet.

The health diary holds vaccinations, worming, weight, vet visits and allergies. Every record has a date, and that is all we ask of you. The reward comes later: when somebody asks when the last rabies shot was, you will not be looking through a drawer.

Records that repeat can carry a reminder. It speaks up before the date arrives, not on the day when it is already too late to get an appointment.

Nothing here is set in stone. Any entry can be opened and corrected, and one that ended up in the journal by mistake can be deleted along with the reminder that belonged to it. For an appointment that has already happened, the quickest way is the Done button: it writes a new entry, carries the interval over from the previous one — a yearly vaccination suggests a year again — and clears the due date on the old one. The original entry stays, so the journal shows the whole run of vaccinations rather than only the latest.

Weight is worth recording even without a reason. A few measurements a year show a trend you cannot see by looking — and that trend is often the first thing a vet asks for.

When an animal dies, every health reminder stops at once. It is the one rule we enforce three independent ways: a vaccination notice for a dead animal is the worst mistake this product could make.

The whole journal prints as a health card — the printer button sits at the top of the Health screen. It fits on one page: the animal's details including microchip number, vaccinations and dewormings with dates, medication, allergies, the latest weight and what is due next. It is built from your records every time, so there is no older copy that quietly stopped being true. The print dialog also saves it as a PDF when you need to email it. For an animal in memorial mode, future dates are not printed.

Illness and injury are their own kinds of entry, not a note under a vet visit. A visit is an event; an illness is a state that starts, gets treated and sometimes comes back — and that is what a new vet asks about. Record the diagnosis for an illness and what happened for an injury; the rest belongs in the note, and the follow-up can be scheduled as you write it.