How do I share my pet's care with family or a sitter?

How does sharing a pet work?

The owner invites, the other person joins with a code, and from then on both of you see and update the same record. It takes under a minute.

1. Go to Profile, open Family sharing for the pet and tap "Create an invite code".
2. Send the code with "Send the code", or read it out. It is eight characters, with no 0/O or 1/I/L to confuse.
3. The other person installs Pativo, chooses "I was invited" (or Profile, then Family sharing) and enters the code.
4. They appear under "Who can see and log" as a caregiver.

Each code works once and expires after 48 hours. If it expires or has been used, create another. Someone who enters wrong codes ten times in an hour has to wait before trying again, which keeps a code from being guessed.

What can a caregiver see and do?

A caregiver can see the pet's records and log just as the owner does: doses, meals, walks, daily check-ins, weights and events. Members can add, change and delete records, so a mistaken dose can be corrected by whoever logged it.

Some things stay with the owner:

When a caregiver leaves, the pet and its records disappear from their phone. The owner keeps everything and can invite them again.

How does "who gave the last dose" work?

Every person sets a display name once, and it is shown beside what they log: "Given by Ayşe, 08:10" or "Done by you, 18:30". The whole household can see at a glance whether the morning tablet is done.

Two people caring for one animal is how a dose gets given twice. One gives the tablet at eight, the other comes home at nine and sees it still listed. So when you tap a medication that someone else has already given in the same period (the same day for a daily dose, the same week for a weekly one), Pativo stops and says who gave it and when, then asks whether to give it again. Where it can, it checks the server too, so a dose logged on another phone a moment ago is caught even before it has synced.

Who is this for?

Couples and families who share the feeding and the medicine round, a neighbour who pops in while you are at work, a sitter for a holiday week, or a grown-up child who takes the dog every other weekend. For a sitter who only needs a single page, the free sitter sheet export is an alternative: profile and chip number, medication and its times, feeding and contacts, without giving access to the app.

How is this different from a shared note or group chat?

A group chat tells you someone said they gave the tablet. A shared record shows the dose ticked off, by whom and when, next to the medication schedule, and it warns before a second dose. The same record feeds the daily log, the quick log and the vet report, so whoever takes the pet to the vet has the full history, not just their own half.

What are the limits?

Sharing needs an internet connection to create or redeem a code and to bring each person's entries together. There is one role for invited people: caregivers can log and edit, and there is no read-only role. Ownership cannot be handed over by code.

If a caregiver's account has no email, losing their phone means losing their access to shared pets, so Pativo suggests adding one. The owner's records are unaffected either way.

Is it free, and who can see the data?

Sharing is free for everyone, always. There is no per-person charge and nothing in sharing depends on anyone's subscription. See what else is included in pricing.

A shared pet's records are visible to the people you invited and to no one else. Membership changes happen only through the owner's invite codes; nobody can add themselves to a pet. Removing someone takes effect straight away. More in the privacy policy.