Free printable pet sitter form · for one dog or cat
Free Printable Pet Sitter Sheet
A pet sitter sheet is one set of written pet sitting instructions for whoever is watching your animals: what to feed, what medication to give, and who to call if something goes wrong. The person watching your dog or cat needs more than a phone number. They need the feeding amounts, the medication doses and the times, the microchip number, which vet you use and which emergency hospital to drive to at 2am — and the part that is easiest to leave out, written permission to authorize treatment up to an amount you set without calling first, with a second contact to try if you cannot be reached — a practical handover note rather than a legal document. This free printable holds all of it. It starts with a worked example so you can see what a finished sheet looks like — with the owner and authorization blocks left blank there, because those are yours to write — and then gives you the same layout blank, two pages per animal, ready to print.
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What it does
- Puts one animal's whole handoff on two printed pages: identity and markings, microchip number, your own phone number and the dates you are away.
- Carries the day-to-day detail a stranger cannot guess: the feeding schedule meal by meal with amounts, every current medication with its dose and timing, and the temperament warnings — the door your dog bolts through, the noise your cat hides from.
- Carries a veterinary treatment authorization with an amount you set, so a caregiver does not have to wait to reach you before saying yes — and a second contact to try if you cannot be reached. It is a practical handover note, not a legal document, and a clinic may still call you to confirm.
- Names both vets, not one: your regular clinic and a 24-hour emergency hospital, chosen before you need it rather than searched for during it.
- Starts with a worked example, then repeats the same layout blank — a print-and-fill template you use again every trip. Print PDF pages 4 and 5, one set per animal. Works for a dog, a cat, or anything else you are handing over.
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Want the pet sitter sheet that fills itself in?
This page is the handoff, and you rewrite it before every trip. The full binder fills it in for you: choose a pet from one dropdown and the identity, feeding schedule, live medication list, your vet, the 24-hour clinic and the current vaccination status all arrive from records you already keep. It also does the thing a page cannot — it works out what every animal is actually DUE, turning a last-done date and a repeat interval into a next-due date, a countdown and a status word, ranked across the whole household. A 15-tab workbook (Excel, Google Sheets & LibreOffice) plus three PDF guides, including a 22-page playbook on what a complete pet record holds.
A one-time purchase you keep and own — the binder between a blank spreadsheet and a subscription pet app that can be discontinued while your animals' whole history sits inside it.
A record you keep for your own animals — not veterinary advice, and not a diagnosis. Your veterinarian sets your pets' schedules, doses and intervals, and state and local law — not this sheet — sets whatever a jurisdiction requires of pet owners where you live; this sheet only stores what you were told. The treatment authorization is a practical handover note, not a legal document, and a clinic may still ask to confirm with you by phone. The example data is clearly fictional. Once it is filled in, the sheet holds your vet, your microchip number and someone else's phone number — ask that contact before you write their number down, keep your copy with your other private papers, and never put account numbers, logins, or door codes on it. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.