Pet Care Bible
A comprehensive pet care planning document designed to help trusted carers continue your pet’s care during illness, incapacity, emergencies or after death.
Future planning for your pet
Pet Care Bible
A comprehensive 62-page A4 care-planning resource containing the information someone would need to confidently care for your cat or dog if you were unable to.
Available in separate cat and dog versions, as a digital PDF or professionally printed and bound copy, with standard and personalised options.
Future planning for your pet
Everything someone would need to know about your pet
Most people make plans for their finances, property and loved ones, but many never document what should happen to their pet.
If you were suddenly unable to care for your pet because of illness, accident, hospitalisation, incapacity or death, would the people around you know their routines, medical needs, preferences, fears and comforts?
The Pet Care Bible gives you a structured way to record that information, along with your wishes for temporary care, permanent guardianship, future veterinary decisions and after-death care.
Because planning for your pet’s future is just as important as planning for your own.
A complete record of your pet’s care
The Pet Care Bible brings together the practical information, personal knowledge and future-care wishes that may otherwise exist only in your head.
It guides you through your pet’s everyday care, health, routines, individual needs and the arrangements you would want followed if you could no longer care for them yourself.
Separate 62-page versions have been created for cats and dogs, with questions and guidance relevant to each.
See inside the Pet Care Bible
Thoughtfully designed prompts help you record both the essential information and the small personal details that make your pet who they are.
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Choose your Pet Care Bible
Start by choosing the cat or dog edition, then select digital or printed and standard or personalised.
How it works
Choose the cat or dog edition.
Select digital or printed, and standard or personalised.
Complete your Pet Care Bible in your own time.
Keep it with your important documents and tell your emergency pet carer or future guardian where it can be found.
Review it whenever your pet’s health, routine or care arrangements change.
Digital editions
Standard digital editions are delivered [INSERT DELIVERY METHOD AND TIMING].
Personalised digital editions are prepared after you provide your pet’s name and photographs and are delivered within [INSERT TURNAROUND TIME].
Printed editions
Printed editions are professionally produced and posted within Australia. Please allow [INSERT PRODUCTION TIME] before dispatch, plus delivery time.
Postage is [INSERT COST OR METHOD].
Personalised editions
After ordering, you will receive instructions explaining how to provide your pet’s name and photographs. [INSERT WHETHER A PROOF IS PROVIDED] before the completed Pet Care Bible is supplied.
Is the Pet Care Bible right for me?
The Pet Care Bible may be particularly valuable if you:
Live alone or have limited support nearby
Want to include your pet in your Will or broader end-of-life planning
Are concerned about who would care for your pet if something happened to you
Travel regularly or spend extended periods away from home and rely on pet sitters and temporary carers
Need to document complex medical, behavioural or daily care needs
Want a plan in place should your pet require permanent care or rehoming
Want greater peace of mind about your pet’s future
In Their Own Words
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Completing Rocco's Pet Care Bible helped me capture all the little details about him that I would never have thought to write down, but now realise are so important if someone else ever needed to care for him. It was lovely to think about him in such detail. The end result is a beautifully organised guide that I can confidently hand to anyone caring for Rocco while I'm away or if something unexpected happens.
— K
Why I created the Pet Care Bible
Through my work as a Death Doula, Pet Death Doula and Pet Loss Counsellor, I have seen how easily pets can be overlooked in emergency, incapacity and end-of-life planning.
The information that makes a pet feel secure - their routines, fears, preferences, medical needs and familiar comforts - is often known only to the person who loves them.
I created the Pet Care Bible so that information does not disappear when it is needed most.
Pet Care Bible or Emergency Pet Care Kit?
The Emergency Pet Care Kit is designed for immediate and short-term action if you are away from home and unable to communicate.
The Pet Care Bible is a comprehensive record for temporary, ongoing or permanent care.
The Emergency Pet Care Kit answers:
What needs to happen right now?
The Pet Care Bible answers:
What does someone need to know to care for my pet properly?
Frequently Asked Questions
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The standard edition contains the complete Pet Care Bible without an individual pet’s name or photographs. The personalised edition includes your pet’s name and up to six supplied photographs.
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Pet guardianship planning involves thinking ahead about who will care for your pet if you are no longer able to do so, and documenting important information to support their ongoing care and wellbeing.
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The Pet Care Bible can help you think through alternative care arrangements and document your preferences should your first choice of guardian be unable or unwilling to take on your pet's care in the future.
A Final Thought
Our pets rely on us for everything.
The Pet Care Bible helps ensure that if life takes an unexpected turn, the people caring for your pet will have the information they need to provide continuity, comfort and care.