Sharing Pet Care Without the Group Chat

In most households, one person knows the pet admin: the vet, the insurer, the food, the tablet schedule, the allergy, the microchip number. It works perfectly until that person is at work, away, or ill — and then nobody else can answer a basic question about an animal they live with.

Why the group chat is not the answer

Households default to WhatsApp for this, and it fails in a specific way: messages are chronological, not structured. "Fed him" from three days ago is indistinguishable from "fed him" today at a glance. Nothing can be looked up, only scrolled back through. And a message thread cannot tell you whether the dose you are about to give has already been given.

What is needed is not more communication. It is a shared record.

Roles, and why they are not all the same

The person who creates a CorePaw household is its owner. Everyone else gets a role:

• Viewer — sees everything, changes nothing. Right for a grandparent, or a teenager you would rather did not edit records.
• Member — can add and edit the areas the owner ticks: daily care, walks, medications, health records, measurements, symptom diary. Quick presets cover Full carer, Helper and View only.
• Co-owner — full access, like the owner.

Members can carry a label they choose, like "Child" or "Dog walker", so the household list reads clearly. Access is chosen when the invite is sent — the code carries the label and permissions, so people arrive with exactly the right access rather than being corrected afterwards — and it is adjustable at any time.

Every rule is enforced in the database, not merely hidden in the interface.

Which pets each person sees

A household with more than one animal can scope a member to some of them: the cat with one child, the dog with another, the dog added to the first when they are old enough. The default is every pet, so an ordinary household never meets the extra step. Co-owners are never scoped.

Handing over

An owner can promote a Co-owner, giving a second person full rights, or transfer ownership entirely and step down to a fully capable member. A household always has at least one owner. This is the feature that matters when the person holding everything is the person who is unavailable.

What it looks like day to day

Every entry — feed, walk, dose, note, weight — records who logged it and when, so the history reads as "Tony fed Ringo" rather than "fed". The daily log groups by day. When one person gives a medication dose, others with medication access are told as it happens, live while the app is open and as a push when it is closed.

The result is that nobody has to announce what they have done, and nobody has to ask.

What it costs

Adding people to a household, with roles and permissions and sync across devices, is part of CorePaw Cloud. The whole app on one device is free for one pet. Sharing an individual walk is free for everyone on any plan. See family sharing and pricing.

Separately and never behind Premium: sharing a pet with a professional dog walker who runs on CorePaw Pro. See what your dog walker needs to know.