Pet Care Instructions Template (Free, Printable)
Free pet care instructions template covering feeding, walking, medications, schedule, and emergency contacts. Perfect for vets, boarding, sitters, and family members.
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PET CARE INSTRUCTIONS — [PET NAME] Owner: ______________________ Phone: ______________________ Backup: ______________________ Phone: ______________________ Vet: ______________________ Phone: ______________________ Emergency vet (24hr): ______________________ Phone: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT [PET NAME] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Breed: _____________ Age: _____ Weight: _____ Microchip #: ___________ Medical conditions: ______________________ Allergies/do not feed: ______________________ Personality notes: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DAILY SCHEDULE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Morning feed: _______ at _______am | Evening feed: _______ at _______pm Food: ______________________ Stored at: ______________________ Walks: _______ times/day | Duration: _______ | Off-leash OK: Y / N Potty breaks: ______________________ Bedtime: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MEDICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Medication: ________ Dose: ______ Time: ______ How: ______ Stored at: ______________________ Tip: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ADDITIONAL NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ______________________
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This template is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. For legally binding documents, consult a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction.
Quick Answer
A pet care instructions sheet is a reference document summarising everything someone needs to know to look after your pet — feeding, medications, routine, emergency contacts, and house access — left for sitters, vets, family, or boarding facilities.
What Is a Pet Care Instructions?
A pet care instructions sheet is the single most useful document you can prepare before leaving your pet with anyone. Whether it's your neighbour checking in, a boarding facility, or a family member covering for a week, a clear printed sheet means fewer phone calls and better care.
This template is shorter and more flexible than a full pet sitting agreement — it's purely operational: what to do, when, and who to call if something goes wrong.
When Do You Need This?
What to Include
1. Pet details
- Name, breed, age, weight
- Microchip number
- Any allergies or medical conditions
2. Daily schedule
- Feeding times and amounts
- Walk/exercise times
- Medication schedule
- Bedtime routine
3. Emergency info
- Owner phone number
- Backup contact
- Vet name and phone
- Emergency vet
Legal Notes by State
No legal requirements. Use alongside a pet sitting agreement for formal arrangements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the same as a pet sitting instructions template?+
Very similar. Pet sitter instructions are slightly longer and include house access and host-specific info. This care sheet is a shorter, general-purpose version suitable for any caregiver.
Should I laminate this?+
If it's for regular use (e.g. a boarding kit you use every year), yes. Laminate a copy and keep it with your pet's documents folder.