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Vet-authored PDFs for managing your pet's chronic condition. Print one, keep it in the kitchen drawer, take it to your next appointment. Free to use.

The First 30 Days: Week-by-Week Checklist

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A week-by-week guide for the first month after diagnosis. The conversations to have, the small changes to start, and the habits that compound across the years ahead.

Arthritis Flare-Up Action Plan

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What to do when arthritis suddenly worsens. A calm, step-by-step plan for the first few days of a flare: ease back, keep them comfortable, give prescribed medication exactly as directed, and watch for the red flags that mean call the vet today. Flares are common and usually pass.

Home Modifications: Room-by-Room Walkthrough

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A room-by-room checklist for an arthritis-friendly home. The cheap wins, the bigger projects, and the small changes that matter most for an arthritic dog or cat.

Cat Home Assessment Checklist

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A resource-by-resource home assessment for cats with arthritis. A cat's world is the home, and arthritis quietly removes the jumps and climbs between the litter tray, the food, the warm bed, and the favourite high shelf. Tick what's already easy; the rest becomes your plan, starting with the litter tray.

Body Condition Score: Visual Assessment Guide

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How to assess your dog's body condition at home, with side-on and top-down silhouettes for the 1-9 BCS scale. Weight management is the single most effective thing you control, and this is the tool that makes it measurable.

Daily Observation Diary

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A weekly record of how your pet is doing, one page per week. The small details that compound across months: stiffness on rising, willingness on walks, mood, appetite, and the moments your gut says something's shifted.

How to Film Your Dog's Movement

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A printable guide to capturing video your vet, and you, can actually use. The five shots that show how your dog really moves, how to get them right, and the one detail that makes or breaks the footage: the surface. Film on a normal day and the camera catches what a clinic visit often hides.

Reading Your Dog's Movement Videos

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The companion to the filming guide: how to actually read the clips you have captured. Line up an older video against a recent one, watch one thing at a time across four everyday views, and spot the gradual changes day-to-day life hides. With an honest note on the subtle shifts the eye misses, and where objective gait analysis picks up.

Pre-Appointment Notes

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Prepare before, take notes during, capture what's next after. A single sheet that turns a ten-minute vet appointment into one you'll actually remember properly a week later.

Vet Questions Checklist

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Questions worth asking, organised by the kind of appointment you're having: diagnosis, treatment review, surgical consult, end-of-life conversation. Pick what fits and bring it with you.

Care Team Tracker

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Everyone involved in your pet's care, in one place: primary vet, specialists, physiotherapist, hydrotherapist, behaviourist, end-of-life services. Contact details, last-seen dates, and what they're treating.

Insurance Comparison Worksheet

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Compare cover on what actually matters for a chronic condition: lifetime vs maximum-benefit vs annual vs accident-only, per-condition limits, excess structure, and the small print on continuing conditions.

Feline Pain Observation Checklist

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A week-by-week record built around how cats really show pain. Not an obvious limp, but the things they quietly stop doing: jumping onto the windowsill, using the cat flap, grooming, settling on a favourite high shelf. A few seconds of noticing each day builds a picture your vet can act on.

The Feline Grimace Scale

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How to read pain in your cat's face. The Feline Grimace Scale scores five features, from the ears and eyes to the muzzle and whiskers, each from 0 to 2. A visual reference for spotting discomfort when your cat is resting calmly, with photos to compare against.

Enrichment Ideas for a Less-Able Pet

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A menu of low-impact ways to keep a pet's mind busy when arthritis limits the body. Scent work, puzzle feeders, gentle play, and a full feline section, mostly free and all at floor level. Tick what you'd like to try. Slow the body, not the life.

IVDD Emergency Action Card

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The one to pin to the fridge before you ever need it. The red flags that mean go now, how to check deep pain and lift a dog with a hurt back safely, what to say when you phone the vet, and the rule that never bends: no human painkillers. When a disc goes, minutes matter, so the thinking is done for you here.

IVDD Grades 1 to 5 Explained

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What your dog's grade actually means, on one clear page. From a painful back with no weakness through to the loss of deep pain, each grade set out plainly alongside what it tends to mean for treatment and outlook. The grade, not a wobble or a bad day, is what drives every decision ahead, so it helps to know where your dog sits.

Surgery vs Conservative: Decision Worksheet

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A calm way to weigh the hardest choice in IVDD while the clock is ticking. Grade, deep pain, time since the signs began, cost and your own circumstances, laid out side by side so the decision is structured rather than panicked. Take it into the consult and fill it in together with your vet.

UK Cost & Insurance Planner

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Typical UK figures for the MRI, the surgery, the referral and the weeks of aftercare, with room to write in the quotes you are actually given. The insurance questions worth asking before you commit, and the practical ways to make it work. Money worries should never quietly make the medical decision for you.

8-Week Crate-Rest Recovery Calendar

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The eight weeks of crate rest mapped out so you always know what this week allows: the rest rules, the toilet trips, the first supported steps. A daily tick grid to keep you honest, and a column for the day's grade so progress is there in black and white. The single hardest part of conservative treatment, made survivable.

Down-Dog Daily Care Checklist

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Caring for a dog that cannot yet walk is a lot to hold in your head, so here it is on one page. Bladder emptying, turning, skin and bedding checks, meals and meds, each with its own tick box through the day. Nothing important slips when the days start to blur together.

Bladder Expression Quick-Reference

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The steps for emptying your dog's bladder, stripped back to a card you can prop up while your hands are busy. How to find the bladder, how much pressure, how often, and what should make you call the vet, with a QR code to the full how-to video. Frightening on day one, second nature by the end of the week.

Neurological Status Log

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A simple daily record of the things your vet will want to know: deep pain, tail movement, leg position, toileting and how the back seems. The trend down the page is what tells you and your vet which way recovery is heading. Take it to every recheck so the conversation starts from facts, not memory.

Home Physio Exercise Cards

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Gentle, staged exercises to help your dog find their feet again, one card per movement with clear pictures and the point at which to progress. A companion to the home physio video, and strictly only ever started once your vet or physiotherapist has given the go-ahead. Done at the right time and the right way, this is how strength comes back.

Neurologist Questions Checklist

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Walking into a referral appointment is easier with the right questions already written down. What the MRI showed, what each option really offers your dog, the honest odds, the aftercare and the cost, grouped so you leave understanding the plan. Tick the ones that matter to you and add your own.

Home-Safety & Recurrence-Prevention Checklist

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Once you are through an IVDD episode, the work turns to preventing the next one. A room-by-room sweep for the jumps, stairs and slippery floors that put a back at risk, the harness-not-collar habit, the weight and exercise points that genuinely matter, and the early signs never to ignore again. Calm, practical, and worth coming back to.

Breathing Emergency: Go Now

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The breathing signs that mean a vet right now: an open-mouth cat, blue or grey gums, severe effort, a pet that cannot settle, collapse, plus what to do while you head in.

Flat-Faced Dogs: Heat Safety

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Why flat-faced dogs overheat so fast, the signs of heatstroke, how to cool them safely, and how to prevent it through the summer.

Kennel Cough: Is It Serious?

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How to tell a self-limiting dog-cold cough from the feverish, flat or breathless dog that needs a vet, plus home care and the contagious period.

Calming a Chronic Cough at Home

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The daily levers that settle a long-term cough (a harness not a collar, weight, clean air, calm), the flare red flags, and a write-on cough log.

Laryngeal Paralysis: The Aspiration Watch

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Feeding, water and the lifelong watch that lowers the aspiration-pneumonia risk in laryngeal paralysis and after a tie-back, with a watch log.

Giving Your Cat's Inhaler

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The spacer-and-mask (AeroKat) inhaler technique step by step, how to win a suspicious cat over, and the common mistakes to avoid.

Flat-Faced Breathing: At-Home Walk Test

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A gentle before-and-after walk test to check how a flat-faced dog copes with effort, with an indicative read and a safety stop rule. Does not replace the vet's grading.

Resting Breathing Rate Chart

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How to count your pet's sleeping breaths a minute, what the number means, and a write-on trend chart. The single most useful number to track at home.

Living With a Breathing Condition: The Daily Playbook

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The five daily levers that help almost any breathing-compromised pet, the emergency signs to know by heart, and a simple daily check.

Renal Diet Transition Planner

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A day-by-day plan for moving your pet onto a renal diet at a pace that actually sticks. The transition ladder, tricks for winning round a fussy eater, and somewhere to record what worked. The renal diet is the change with the strongest evidence behind it, so it is worth getting right.

Medication & Supplement Schedule

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Your pet's whole kidney regime on one page: every medicine and supplement, what each is for, the dose you fill in from your vet, and a tick grid for the week. Keeps the day straight so nothing is missed or doubled.

CKD Home Tracker

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A weekly record of the signs that matter in kidney disease: appetite, drinking, nausea, energy and weight, one page per week. The trend across the weeks tells you far more than any single day, and the red-flag list shows when to ring the vet.

Sub-Q Fluids: Checklist & Log

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Everything you need to give fluids under the skin at home with confidence: a kit list, the steps in order, what is normal and what is not, and a running log to bring to rechecks. Daunting at first, routine within a fortnight.

Bloodwork Trend Sheet

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Your pet's kidney numbers side by side over time, with plain-English context for each marker: creatinine, SDMA, phosphate, potassium, urine protein and blood pressure. Kidney disease is about the direction of travel, not a single snapshot.

Appointment Question List

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The right questions for where you are right now, from newly diagnosed to reviewing treatment and the longer view. Tick what fits, write the answers on the lines, and leave the consult understanding the plan rather than just nodding along.

UK Cost Planner

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Plan the year ahead with clear eyes. Typical UK cost ranges for diet, medicines, monitoring and fluids, room for your own quotes, and the practical ways to make it manageable, from insurance to written prescriptions. Money worries should never quietly steer the medical decisions.

Quality-of-Life Assessment

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A gentle way to take stock of how your pet is really doing, across the things that matter most in kidney disease. There is no score to be afraid of here. Something to return to over time, and to share honestly with the people who know your pet.

Blocked-Cat Emergency Card

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The fridge card for the life-threatening emergency owners miss: the signs that mean go now, the make-or-break "is urine coming out?" check, why it cannot wait, and space for your vet and out-of-hours numbers.

FIC Home-Care & MEMO Checklist

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The environment changes that genuinely reduce stress-cystitis flares: the litter-tray rules, separated resources, hiding and high places, routine and play, plus a flare log. FIC is stress, not infection.

Getting More Water In

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The cheapest, most effective thing you can do for a bladder: wet food first, fountains and water stations, what to skip, the honest take on urinary diets, and a simple water log.

After a Block: Prevention Plan

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Lowering the odds of a re-block in the high-risk weeks after a cat comes home: water, the right diet, stress and MEMO, medication as prescribed, the warning signs that mean go straight back, and a watch log.

Stone-Prevention Plan

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Diet, water and rechecks for a stone-forming pet, built around the stone type: struvite can often be dissolved, calcium oxalate must be prevented. Includes a recheck log for urine tests and imaging.

Collecting a Urine Sample

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How to catch a clean sample your vet can actually use: the cat method (non-absorbent litter) and the dog method (mid-stream), timing and storage, and what cystocentesis is if your vet collects it instead.

Leaky-Dog Management Chart

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For the spayed-bitch leak (USMI): telling leaking from weeing, the once-daily medicines that work, the skin and bedding routine, and a leak diary. Common, not her fault, and very treatable.

Seizure Diary

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The record your vet doses against. Log every seizure: when it happened, how long it lasted, whether it came in a cluster, and how recovery went. Frequency is the number treatment is adjusted against, so a good diary is the single most useful thing you can bring to an appointment.

Seizure First-Aid Card

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What to do, and what not to do, during a seizure, on one fridge-ready card. The calm steps that keep your pet safe, the things to avoid (hands away from the mouth), and the clear line for when a seizure becomes an emergency.

Status Epilepticus Emergency Plan

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A one-page plan to complete with your vet and pin up at home. The emergency thresholds, who to call, and a place to record any prescribed rescue medication exactly as your vet has set it, so panic never erases the plan when a long seizure happens.

Medication Chart

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A weekly tick-sheet for anti-seizure medication, with space for blood-test dates and the side effects worth mentioning. Consistent dosing is the most powerful thing in your hands, never stop suddenly, and a missed dose shows at a glance.

How to Film a Seizure

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A short video tells your vet more than any description. What to capture, how to stay safe while you film (never put your hands near the mouth), and why the recovery afterwards matters too.

Trigger Log

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A daily log to spot the patterns that set seizures off. Track sleep, stress, missed doses and more alongside seizure days, then look for what keeps turning up in the day or two before. The best-supported triggers are stress, disrupted sleep, hormonal cycles and missed medication.

Questions for Your Surgeon

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Walk into the consult informed. The questions worth asking about the procedure, the meniscus, recovery, risks, cost and the other knee, each with room to write the answers down before you forget them. A good surgeon will welcome them.

Cost & Insurance Worksheet

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Plan calmly instead of deciding in a panic. An itemised cost worksheet to fill in against a real quote, the reminder to budget for both knees, and the insurance questions worth asking before the operation, not after.

The 12-Week Recovery Chart

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The whole recovery on two pages: what each phase asks of you across the twelve weeks, the red flags for each stage, and a weekly weight-bearing and lameness log to take to every recheck. The part owners most underestimate, made navigable.

Home Exercise Cards by Phase

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Safe, phase-by-phase home physiotherapy you can actually do, with the golden rule front and centre: only what your vet or physiotherapist has approved, and stop at tiredness or pain. Early, mid and late-phase exercises with space to write in the reps they set.

Confinement & Enrichment Plan

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Get through strict rest without either of you losing your mind. A confinement setup checklist, enrichment that keeps a recovering dog calm without breaking the rest rules, a daily-routine planner, and a reminder to look after yourself too.

Watch the Other Knee Checklist

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Because around a third to a half of dogs rupture the other cruciate too, usually within a year or two. The early signs to watch for, what to do if you spot one, the two levers that genuinely lower the odds, and a monthly check log. Honest, not alarmist.