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Pet Feeding and Medication Checklist
The checklist (4 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Feeding & Medication station in the Pet care / Daycare starter set, filed under Kennels, and every item here is editable.
- 1Fed the correct food and portion to the correct animalCritical
- 2Gave medication per the written instruction and logged itCritical
- 3Fed separated animals apart to avoid guardingMust pass
- 4Checked water in every runMust pass
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What usually goes wrong
Both feeding and medication are critical, and both fail the same way: working from memory instead of the written instruction. The animals are familiar, the routine is repetitive, and that is precisely the condition where a swap happens.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Fed the correct food and portion to the correct animal
- Gave medication per the written instruction and logged it
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this station: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Feeding & Medication specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Other pet care / daycare checklists
The rest of the set, if you are building out the whole floor rather than one position.
Common questions
Why log medication if it was given correctly?
Because the log is what prevents a second dose. Without a record, the only thing standing between an animal and being medicated twice is one person's recollection during a busy shift.
What should be on a pet feeding and medication checklist?
The 4 items above cover it: fed the correct food and portion to the correct animal, gave medication per the written instruction and logged it, fed separated animals apart to avoid guarding, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this station, 2 items are marked critical: fed the correct food and portion to the correct animal; gave medication per the written instruction and logged it. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Feeding & Medication checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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