Pet Feeding Schedules

The Pets view in Food & Supplements is where you connect products from your inventory to the pets in your care. Each pet can have multiple feeding schedules: some for their main meals, others for supplements or medications; with their own serving sizes, frequencies, and tracking.

To get to the Pets view, open Food & Supplements from the main menu and click the paw icon button in the header.

Overview Dashboard

At the top of the page, four summary cards give you a quick snapshot:

• Total Pets: The number of pets that have at least one feeding schedule (active or inactive).
• Active Schedules: The total number of currently active food and supplement schedules across all pets.
• Active Foods: How many distinct food products are in use on active schedules.
• Active Supplements: How many distinct supplement products are in use on active schedules.

Filtering and Searching

Below the header you'll find several filtering options:

• Search: Search pets by name to quickly find a specific animal.
• Type Filter: Show all items, food only, or supplements only. This filters which schedule entries appear on each pet's card or row.
• Product Filter: Select a specific product to see only pets that are on a schedule for that item. Useful for questions like "Which pets are on the joint supplement?"
• Active Only: A toggle switch that hides inactive schedules, so you only see what's currently being given.

Cards vs. Table Layout

Two layout options are available via buttons in the top right:

Cards Layout

The cards layout gives each pet a visual card that shows their photo, name, breed, and age category at the top. Below that you'll see:

Daily summary bar: When nutrition data is available, a shaded bar shows estimated daily calories and daily feeding cost. If a pet has a known allergy that conflicts with an allergen tagged on one of their products, an Allergy Conflict warning appears in red.

Schedule entries: Each active food or supplement assignment appears as its own bordered section within the card. Each entry shows:

• An icon indicating whether it's a food (beef icon) or supplement (pill icon), along with the product name and brand.
• The serving amount and unit (for example, "1.5 cups").
• The frequency (for example, "2x per day") and reset cycle (daily reset, weekly reset, or monthly reset)
• Estimated calories for that item if calorie data is available on the product
• The next due label if the schedule has upcoming feedings remaining in the current period
• Any notes attached to the schedule in a small callout
• Allergen conflict badges if a product's tagged allergens overlap with the pet's known allergies

Completion tracking buttons: At the bottom of each schedule entry, numbered buttons represent each feeding or dose in the current period. For a product given 3 times daily, you'll see buttons labeled 1, 2, and 3. Click a button to mark that feeding as done; it fills with a checkmark. Click again to undo. These reset automatically: daily schedules reset at the start of each day, weekly schedules at the start of each week, and monthly at the start of each month.

When you mark a feeding as complete, the system also adjusts the product's stock level automatically based on the serving size and the product's servings-per-purchase ratio.

Footer: A count of how many foods and supplements the pet has active.

Quick edit: Hover over any schedule entry and a pencil icon appears in the top right corner. Click it to open the Quick Edit dialog.

Table Layout

The table layout is a more compact, row-based view of the same data. It's paginated and useful when you're managing many pets and want to scan through them efficiently.

Quick Edit Dialog

The Quick Edit dialog lets you make fast adjustments to a pet's schedule for a specific product without navigating away. It opens when you click the pencil icon on a schedule entry in the cards layout.

The dialog includes:

• Active Schedule toggle: Turn the schedule on or off. Inactive schedules are hidden from the cards layout when the Active Only toggle is on.
• Amount per Serving: How much of the product to give per feeding, shown with the product's serving unit.
• Schedule: The number of times per period and the period type (daily, weekly, or monthly). For example, "2 x daily" means two feedings per day.
• Instructions: A text area for notes specific to this pet and product: things like "Mix with wet food" or "Give after morning walk."

Click Save Changes to apply. The changes reflect immediately on the pet's card.

How Calories and Costs Are Calculated

The daily calorie and cost estimates shown on pet cards are calculated from the active schedules:

Calories: For each active schedule, the system takes the product's calories-per-serving value, multiplies by how many default servings the pet's serving amount represents, then multiplies by the daily frequency. Weekly schedules are divided by 7; monthly by 30.

Cost: For each active schedule, the system calculates the cost per serving (cost per purchase unit divided by servings per purchase), multiplied by the number of servings per feeding, multiplied by the daily frequency.

Both values require that the relevant fields are filled in on the product. If a product has no calorie data, it won't contribute to the calorie total. If it has no cost or servings-per-purchase data, it won't contribute to the cost total.

Allergen Conflict Detection

If a pet has known allergies recorded in their profile, and a food or supplement assigned to them has overlapping allergens tagged, the system flags the conflict in two ways:

• An Allergy Conflict warning appears in the daily summary bar of the pet's card.
• Individual allergen badges (for example, "Chicken allergy") appear on the offending schedule entry, highlighted in red.

This helps catch situations where a product might not be suitable for a particular pet.

Practical Tips

• Assign schedules as soon as a pet enters your care so the team knows what to feed them from day one.
• Use the completion tracking buttons as part of your daily routine. It creates accountability and ensures no pet is missed.
• For supplements given less frequently (like a monthly heartworm preventative), set the frequency to "1 x monthly" so it shows the correct tracking period.
• If a pet transitions to a new food, deactivate the old schedule and create a new one rather than editing the existing one. This preserves the history of what the pet has been on.
• Check the Product Filter regularly to see adoption-ready pets that may no longer need certain supplements, so you can deactivate those schedules.
• Pay attention to allergen conflict warnings. They can prevent adverse reactions, especially when pets are new and their full history isn't known yet.