How do I keep my pet's care routine?

Both live in the Care section of your pet (Tank care for fish, Pond care for a pond). Every pet's routines, and the ones for the house, are also together in the Routines tab, and today's show on Home under What needs you today?.

1. Open your pet and tap Care.
2. Tap Add to care. One list opens with everything, in plain words.
3. Pick a routine from Routines for Luna to check off at home, or a care entry under Grooming and hygiene to log with its details.
4. Check what VetVitae filled in, change anything you like, and save.

Is it a routine or a care entry?

A routine is something done at home with nothing to record but done. A care entry is something with details worth keeping: who did it, the products, photos, the cost, and when it's due again.

Each thing lives in one place only, so you never have to choose. Teeth brushing and fur brushing are routines. Old hygiene entries with them stay in the history as they were.

How do I add a routine?

Pick a suggestion from Routines for Luna, or tap Create my own routine at the end of the list. A suggestion opens the routine form already filled in, with a schedule and a reminder time you can change before saving.

1. Give it a Name the way you'd say it out loud, like "Evening walk".
2. Pick How often:
   • Every day, with Times a day (feed twice a day).
   • On certain days, picking Which days (brush teeth on Monday, Wednesday and Friday).
   • Times a week or month, on any days (brush fur 3 times a week).
   • Every few days or weeks, counted from the last time it was done (wash the bed every 2 weeks).
3. Set Starts. Nothing before the start date counts as missed.
4. Leave Remind me on and set the time of each reminder.
5. Under Who and how, pick For: Anyone, or the one person who usually does it. That person gets the reminder; everyone still sees the routine.
6. Under Also for, pick your other pets to give them the same routine. It's one routine for all of them, so a change applies to every pet, and each pet is still checked off on its own.
7. Tap Add routine.

The form reads the schedule back to you in a sentence before you save.

Suggestions depend on the animal, and for brushing on the coat. Something you don't need? Tap Not for Luna to hide it. Show hidden suggestions brings it back.

How do I check it off?

Tap the check button on the routine. It fills at once and shows who did it and when, with Undo for a few seconds. Tapped by mistake? Tap it again to take back your check.

• A routine done several times a day counts each tap ("Walk, 1 of 2 today").
• Add a note on the same message keeps a short note with that check, like "40 min, park".
• When another of your pets has a routine with the same name still to do today, Also for checks it for that pet too. Two dogs, one walk, one tap.
• A routine Every few days or weeks done on a day it isn't due asks How should it count? Counts for the one due logs it late or early, and the next one is due the usual interval after that day. An extra one, out of schedule keeps it in the history and leaves the one due where it is. Done on another day, in the ⋯ menu, asks the same, with the day it was done.
• Forgot to check it yesterday? Open the routine, pick the day on the calendar and tap Add a check for that day. Checks can go back to the start date, never into the future.
• To remove a check, open that day in the routine's calendar and tap Remove this check.

Where do I see every pet's routines?

Open the Routines tab. It shows every routine for every pet, and the house ones, under Today, This week, Later and Paused. The same routine for several pets is one card, with a line for each pet, its streak and its last few times.

• Done for all checks it for every pet still to do, in one tap, with one Undo.
• The filter next to the title keeps one pet, or the house, on screen.
• Today so far shows how far each pet is today. Who did what today shows who checked what, when more than one person looks after your pets.
• On Home, What needs you today? lists the routines due today with everything else, each with a circle to check it off. Each pet's Overview shows that pet's under Routines today.
• A routine with a reminder time shows Late in red once that time passes without a check. Without a reminder time, it is due all day.

What is a house routine?

A house routine is something done for the home, not for one pet, like changing the fountain filter or washing the bowls. It is checked once, for everyone, and everyone who shares one of its pets sees it.

1. Open Routines and tap Add routine.
2. Pick House.
3. Tap Add on a suggestion, like Scoop the litter box or Change the fountain filter, or tap Create my own routine. Suggestions come from your pets' species, and leave out what a pet already has.
4. Under For, check the pets it's for. A suggestion picks the pets it fits, your own routine picks all of them.
5. Check the Name, How often and the reminder, like any routine.
6. Tap Add routine.

It shows under House in Routines, in What needs you today? on Home and on the Overview of each pet it's for. Owners and co-owners of any of those pets can check it off, and carers see it. Its reminder reads "House, change the fountain filter".

What do the streak and the calendar show?

The streak is how many times in a row the routine was done on schedule, and the calendar shows each day as done, partly done, missed, skipped or paused. It is information, not a game: no badges, and no message when a streak ends.

Open a routine to see Streak, Best and Last 30 days, the month calendar, How to and, when more than one person looks after your pet, Who did it. On a wide screen, Care also shows Today so far and Who did what.

• Every day and On certain days count in days.
• Times a week or month count in weeks or months, and say On track. Any day counts. until the count is reached, or Behind when the days left are just enough.
• Every few days or weeks count each time it was done on or before its due day.

Next to the streak, each routine shows its last few times in its own unit: days, weeks or months, or the last times it was done and the next due day.

How do I skip, pause or stop a routine?

Tap the routine's ⋯ menu and choose Skip today, Pause, or open it to archive or delete it.

• Skip today, with an optional reason like "Raining, at the vet". A skip doesn't break the streak and doesn't add to it.
• Pause, Until a date or Until I resume it, for a vacation, a hotel stay or the weeks after surgery. Paused days never count as missed and send no reminders.
• Archive stops the routine and keeps its history under Archived. Restore brings it back, and the archived days count as paused.
• Delete removes the routine and all its checks. When it has checks, you type its name to confirm, and Archive instead is offered.
• On a routine for several pets, Pause, Archive, Restore and Delete apply to all of them. To stop it for one pet, edit the routine and take that pet off under Also for. Its routine is archived, with its history kept.

How do I log a bath or a groomer visit?

Tap Add to care, pick the bath, the grooming or the hygiene task under Grooming and hygiene, and save it with what was done.

1. Under What was done, pick everything done in one go. One groomer visit is one entry, even with nails and ears.
2. Pick who did it: Done at home, Groomer, Pet shop or Vet, and the contact when there is one.
3. Add the products. Products you typed before come back as suggestions. A bath can be marked Medicated bath, since dermatological baths count as a treatment and your vet will ask.
4. For grooming, add a Before and an After photo. They sit side by side in the entry.
5. Turn on Repeat to plan the next one. VetVitae suggests an interval, like the gap between your last two, or a usual rhythm for the coat. Saving schedules the next one with a reminder.
6. Bathed everyone at once? Pick your other pets under Also for. Each pet gets its own entry. The cost then reads Cost for each pet.
7. Save.

A groom with Bath included offers Log the bath too, so the bath also shows under Baths.

What happens when a care entry is due?

It shows under Coming up in Care, and on Home on its day, with Done and Skip. Done logs it with today's date and plans the next one. Skip asks for an optional reason and moves on to the next one.

A repeat with a time becomes overdue once that time passes on its day. Without a time, it stays due all day. A daily repeat you didn't get to moves to today, so it never piles up days late.

To stop a repeat, tap the ⋯ menu on the coming one and choose Stop repeating. What you already logged stays.

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