What is on the chart?
A week across the top, and six rows down the side: morning, evening, medicine, walk, water, and one spare row for whatever your animal needs that nobody else’s does. Every box has two writing lines, because one line invites a tick and two invite a name and a time.
Why write the time and not just tick it?
A tick only says that somebody thought about it. It does not say who, and it does not say when — which are exactly the two things the second person in the house needs. Initials and a time turn a shared chart into an answer instead of a hint.
Has the dog been fed?
If it is written down, yes. That is the whole job of this sheet, and for one animal in one household it does the job perfectly well. It is worth being honest about where it stops: paper cannot travel. If the person who fed her is at work, the chart on your fridge cannot tell you anything, and at the end of the week somebody has to put up a new one.
That is the point where a phone starts doing it better — same idea, no resetting, and everyone looking after the animal sees the same record wherever they are.
Printing it
- It is A4. On US Letter, choose Fit to page and nothing will be cut off.
- Print it in black and white if you like — it is designed to survive that.
- One sheet is one week. Print a few at once and keep the spares in the drawer.
Next: you don’t need a fridge magnet — where paper stops working, and what replaces it.