Pet Owners : Management of Health Data for Animals / Pets (Dog | Cats)

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For anyone who is a pet owner, would you mind sharing how you are managing health-related data for your pet?

#Database
#Data
#Pet
#Pets
#Dog
#Dogs
#Cat
#Cats
#iOS
#macOS

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I put receipts and reports into a folder in EagleFiler, usually in subfolders by year, and by pet. You could easily do the same as a cross-platform solution in Apple Notes, or DevonThink, or Evernote, or OneNote, or Zoho Notebook, or Notebooks App, for anything from free to $19+

Nothing special really needed, just a place to dump files in an accessible manner.

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I’ve been using Airtable to manage all of my dog’s health visits, meds, etc. If you go to their main site (or iOS app), they have a template for pet medical history that I customized for my needs. It works pretty well and i can attach scanned receipts for each visit.

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I have this system where I ask my wife and she keeps it in her head, probably not the best way of doing things

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I use a simple system of scanning any doco in as a PDF, tagging with the dog or cat’s name, then filing it by FY. We’re fortunate not to have any real health problems with them so there’s not a lot of doco beyond their vaccination records.

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There was actually an iOS app for this but it was one of those situations where the pain of inputing data on iOS into a single purpose database far outweighed the reward. I ended up just scanning any paperwork with ISO date format as recommended in David’s paperless book and keeping a mental record of meds that were either daily till they ran out or daily forever or monthly.