Having to rush out on a family emergency or broken down in your car and you can't get home in time for your pet? These are just two reasons why a Pet Home Alone Card is a good idea.
Read on to find out the best way to use a Pet Home Alone Card, where to put Home Alone Cards and how many you will need.
Emergencies happen without warning
If you're taken ill suddenly, delayed getting home, in an accident, or something similar, a Pet Home Alone Card can leave a message with your phone number, your emergency contacts, and the priority care notes for your dog, cat, parrot, rabbit or any small or large animal all on one handy card.
The My Pet Planner Home Alone Cards pack of 4 are all you need to convey that emergency message about your pets priority care.
Your pet sitter or emergency contact might be the only information you have to put on the card, but whatever your priorities are, you can put them on the Home Alone Card so that your pets will be cared for while more permanent arrangements are made.
Home Alone Cards remove any guess work
Don't leave your pets' care routine to chance. Sometimes when more than one animal lives in a house, it's like a military operation and any sway from the routine could prove to be a problem that can be avoided!
With a detailed log of feeding routine, medications and what exercise they need, your pets can be safe while the dust settles after an emergency or unplanned situation.
Put a Home Alone Card in your car
Leave a Home Alone Card in your car or van glovebox, you could even put one in the centre console or your purse or wallet, either way, it should be somewhere obvious so in difficult situations, someone will know you have pets at home that need caring for.
It's on the fridge!
"When you go in the kitchen, you will see the dog's Home Alone Card on the fridge". That flustered call you make to your emergency contact or professional pet sitter who has been nominated to 'do the animals' while you are stuck somewhere unable to get home.
The cat's instructions are on the coffee table!
Same again ... "All the cat's instructions are on the Home Alone Card on the coffee table in the lounge". There's nothing worse than giving the cat the wrong food, the one they turned their nose up yesterday! Leaving a Home Alone Card out like this conveys the correct details your pet sitter will need to feed the cat.
More serious incidents
A Pet Home Alone card removes any guess work for emergency services. Police, paramedics and hospital staff will know straight away that you have animals at home that need caring for.
Put one in your purse or wallet so they can get in touch with your emergency contact.
The Home Alone Card is for any animal
When you use the card alongside the My Pet Planner Digital PDF, you can make sure that any species has a care plan written out in easy to understand notes making temporary care less guesswork and more like a curated back up plan.
Peace of mind
Know that in the event of an unplanned or serious emergency, your pets care is documented in an organiser and on their care cards while a more permanent solution is found.
Phones are not always immediately available
Good old fashioned cards or our My Pet Planner notebook is immediately available until your emergency contacts can be accessed on your phone. Remove any delay that a digital option might create using Home Alone Cards.
If you live alone
This is the reason why I created My Pet Planner in the first place. I needed something I could leave out in my house that in the event of my dogs being home alone, someone could take over their care in a structured way.
Let's be fair, a home alone card is something we hope will never get used, a bit like insurance, but if it is needed, it will make handling your pets care less awkward ands gives reassurance your emergency contact will know what to do.
My Pet Planner and Home Alone Cards turn a worrying 'what if' into something practical and manageable.
Sometimes the simplest precautions are the ones that protect the most.
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