Pets & Vet Care

How it works

The mechanics of this kit, plainly — what runs and when, where the data lands, and what you look at.

• Care sweep runs mondays · 7am and keeps the Your pets dashboard fresh. Mondays — reads the practice, the insurer and the pet pharmacy; files the costs; warns thirty days out.
• Care check runs monthly · the 1st, 8am. Monthly — one card per animal: what is due, which way the weight is going, anything noticed that has come back.
• What is captured lands in the Pets dataset, which lives at Data/Pets in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Care log dataset, which lives at Data/Pet Care Log in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Pet weights dataset, which lives at Data/Pet Weights in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Daily care log dataset, which lives at Data/Pet Daily Care in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Training and behaviour dataset, which lives at Data/Pet Training Log in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The Your pets dashboard reads from the dataset and shows, at a glance: this pet · daily care · due and overdue · weight, per animal · noticed lately · spend by kind · on the register · spend, all logged · paid out by the insurer · care calendar · weight, month by month — one animal at a time from the register · care record · how this board works · your pets.

The wiring, in one breath: Bramble holds Pet capture · Pet capture writes to Pets · Pet capture logs into Care log · Care sweep logs into Care log · Pet capture keeps Pet weights · Pets shown by Your pets · Your pets kept fresh by Care sweep · Bramble holds Vet visit prep · Bramble runs Care check · Bramble holds Daily care and feeding · Daily care and feeding logs into Daily care log · Bramble holds Insurance claim · Bramble holds Care sheet · Bramble holds Training and breed care · Training and breed care records Training and behaviour.

Getting the most from it

A kit earns its place when it changes what you look at and what you say, not when it is installed. This is the rhythm that makes it pay.

• Put each animal on the register once — name, species, the insurer and the practice — and give Bramble the dates you know that day: the last booster, the flea and worm routine, when the insurance renews. Due and overdue is worth a glance from that moment; a blank is honest and fills as the letters arrive.
• Say a care event the way you'd say it to whoever is holding the lead — "Milo had his booster, $48", "gave Pip her flea drops", "the vet weighed him at 28.2" — and Pet capture files it against the right animal with the next one due. With two on the register, name which; if you don't, Bramble asks rather than guessing.
• Read Due and overdue on Monday morning, after the Care sweep has been through your email. Amber at thirty days is the honest signal — it is drawn from the record, so a date nobody stated is never on it — and it is the panel to check before the kennels or cattery ask for proof.
• Mention what you notice in passing — "she's been limping since Tuesday", "he's off his food" — and it lands on the record dated, in your words. Noticed lately shows it beside anything noted before; Bramble never says what it might be, only that it is worth taking to the vet.
• Before an appointment, ask Bramble for the brief. It comes back with the recent weights and their direction, everything noticed since the last visit, the current treatments, what is outstanding and the questions worth asking — facts to take in, never conclusions.
• Forward the practice's invoice or the insurer's payout email and the record moves from the document, not from memory: the cost, the claim, the date the next booster is due. That is the correction that keeps the board true.
• Tell Bramble what each animal eats and how much, the way you or the vet put it — "160 g twice a day, the vet said" — and Daily care and feeding keeps it on the animal's row with who said it. A change goes on the care log too, so the vet brief can say when the food changed. Bramble never says what or how much to feed.
• At feeding time, press Start on Daily care on Your pets. It goes round every animal still with you, one at a time, with the feeding and the daily medicine shown as recorded: tick fed, the medicine and a walk or a play, and add a line for anything that stood out. Saying "fed them both" to Bramble ticks the same row, so nothing counts twice, and an animal marked no longer with us never comes up.
• When there is vet work to claim for, ask Bramble to put the claim together. Insurance claim drafts it from the invoices on the care log and the policy facts you give, leaves a gap for anything it does not hold, and saves it under Pets/ for you to check and send. Tell Bramble when it has gone and the care log notes that the claim is in.
• Before you go away, ask for a care sheet. Care sheet writes one for the sitter or the kennels from the record, with the last vaccinations and their dates, and keeps an emergency card with the practice's and the out-of-hours vet's numbers you gave it. Log training as you go ("recall 10 of 12 today") and ask what a named source says about a method or the breed; a behaviour that worries you goes to the vet first.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. The pieces are ordinary agents, routines, datasets and dashboards, so anything you know about shaping those applies. Retire whatever earns nothing.

Things people usually change first

Say any of these in chat, or edit them on the kit’s page in the app.

• What you call each animal — the name on the register is the word Bramble uses back.
• When the Monday sweep runs, or turning it off and keeping the record by hand.
• The practice, the insurer and the pharmacy you use, so the sweep searches for them by name.
• Whether you want the monthly card at all — or just the board.
• The register itself is yours to edit: a new insurer, a new practice, a microchip number found on the paperwork.
• The feeding and the daily medicine on each animal's row, in your words or the vet's: say a change and the row follows.
• The practice's number and the out-of-hours vet, which the emergency card and the care sheet are built from.

Your first run

Installing starts a short setup conversation — not a form. Answer roughly, correct later.

1. Installing ends with "Meet Bramble", a short conversation, not a form. Before it asks you anything, Bramble starts from what 1Presence already knows: what you have said before, and any vet records, vaccination cards or insurance papers in your vault. It offers what it finds for you to confirm and asks only for the gaps.
2. Then it goes round the house one animal at a time: what you call them, what they are, roughly when they were born, the microchip if you have it to hand, the practice you use, and the insurer and when it renews if they are insured. Each goes on the register as you speak, and a blank stays blank. Last comes where each animal stands: the last booster and when the next is due, the flea and worm routine, the last check-up and the last weight. The dates matter most, because Due and overdue can only draw from a next-due date the record holds. Anything you do not know is simply left; nothing chases it.
3. Nothing in that conversation touches your email. The Care sweep is what reads it — every Monday, for what the practice, the insurer and the pet pharmacy have sent about each animal — and it asks for email access the first time it runs, from its own screen, where the ask makes sense.
4. Skip the conversation, or stop part-way, and the door stays open: the Kit page, the board and Bramble's chat keep the offer to carry on, and while the register is empty the Monday sweep leaves one card inviting you in rather than searching for nothing. Whatever is still missing waits on the Kit page with a way back to Bramble, and Bramble offers it once the next time you talk. Insurance is only asked about for animals that have it. Tell Bramble a part does not apply to you, or that you have finished setting up, and it stops asking.
5. The first sweep with an animal on the register looks back a year — filing the boosters, treatments, visits and invoices it can be sure of against the right animal, moving a renewal only when a policy document prints the date, and drawing Due and overdue, Weight per animal and Noticed lately. After that it scans only what is new, and says something only when a date is within thirty days, a document moved one, or an email could not be matched. On the first of the month, Care check sends one card per animal.

Watch the first pass, then tell it what you would have done differently — that correction teaches it more than any setup could.

The essentials

Learning, preferences and run costs work the same in every kit — so they are covered once, in the Kits guide.

Living with a Kit — the Kits guide →

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