Six logs
Everything you would otherwise try to remember
One tap each, all hanging off your cat’s profile and latest weigh-in. Cats hide illness well, so small changes written down are often the first sign.
Weight & body condition
Log weigh-ins, then score body condition 1–9 on the cat chart, hands on the ribs and belly. That score sets a per-cat ideal weight, and the feeding math follows it.
- Weigh-ins charted, with the breed’s typical adult range as context
- Ideal weight = current ÷ (1 + 0.10 × (score − 5))
- The loose belly flap (primordial pouch) is normal, not fat
- Monthly re-score reminder on the care calendar
Vet-prescribed weight loss
When your vet says an adult cat should slim down, this runs the plan: target weight, a slow pace, daily calories and grams per meal. A cat must never stop eating.
- About 0.5–1 % of body weight a week; faster than 1.5 % is flagged (fatty liver risk)
- Your vet’s calorie number always overrides the estimate
- Weekly check flags too fast, stalled, or gaining
- Off for kittens unless your vet ordered a diet
Medications
Copy the label once, then tick each dose as you give it. The app warns you before the bottle runs out.
- Dose exactly as written: the app never calculates a drug dose
- Times of day, or every N days
- Refill warning from doses remaining
Stool check
Score it on the 1–7 fecal scale used in veterinary practice, and flag blood, black or tarry stool, mucus or worms. Thirty days at a glance.
- 1 = hard pellets … 7 = watery; 2–3 is ideal
- Repeated hard pellets flag constipation, common in older cats
- Repeat patterns produce a verdict, not just a log
Litter box & water
Every pee you see, in a tap: how much came out, straining, blood, or peeing outside the box. Plus a daily bowl-water target from body weight and what your cat eats.
- Straining with nothing coming out is flagged as an emergency
- Bowl target a day: mostly wet food up to 20 mL/kg, mixed 15–35, mostly dry 30–50
- Over 60 mL/kg from the bowl is worth a vet call: kidneys, diabetes, thyroid
Symptoms & vitals
Temperature, heart rate, breathing, gum color and refill time against the published feline ranges, with red-flag symptoms that skip straight to “see a vet now”.
- 38.1–39.2 °C · heart 140–220 · breathing 20–30 · refill under 2 s
- Kittens get a higher heart-rate ceiling, up to 260
- Red flags: open-mouth breathing, not eating for 24 hours, straining in the box, sudden back-leg weakness
What is normal
What is normal for a cat? Water, urine and vital signs
How much water should a cat drink?
About 50–60 mL per kg a day in total, but food supplies part of it. Wet food is around 75–80 % water, so a cat on mostly wet food may barely touch the bowl, and that is normal. On dry food a cat drinks most of it. Heavy drinking, over about 60 mL/kg from the bowl, points to the kidneys, diabetes or the thyroid.
When is peeing an emergency?
A cat that strains in the litter box and passes little or no urine may have a blocked urethra, most often a male. It is life-threatening and cannot wait: go to an emergency vet now. Blood in the urine, or peeing outside the box, deserves a call to your vet the same day.
Normal cat heart rate, temperature and breathing
At rest: 38.1–39.2 °C (100.5–102.5 °F), a heart rate of 140–220 beats a minute (kittens higher), and 20–30 breaths a minute, never open-mouthed. Gums pink, refilling in under 2 seconds. A cat that has not eaten for 24 hours needs a vet.
Sources: NRC, Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats, 2006 · Merck Veterinary Manual · AAFP · Cornell Feline Health Center, Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease
Plain answers
Four verdicts, no interpretation required
Every log ends in one of four plain-English verdicts. No scores to interpret, no color you have to decode: just what to do, and the numbers to take with you.
All within normal. Nothing to do. Logged for the trend.
Worth watching. Mild signs. Keep logging, and call if it lasts past tomorrow.
Worth a vet call. Out of range, or several signs together. Call today, with these numbers.
See a vet now. Emergency signs. Go to the nearest open vet.
The payoff
Where it all adds up
Trends over 30 and 90 days
Weight, water, play, stool score, temperature, heart rate and breathing on one screen, most plotted against a shaded normal band (Merck, WSAVA, AAFP) or this cat’s own target. Cats hide illness, so this is the view that turns “they seem a bit off lately” into a date, a number and a direction: the thing a vet can act on.
Tap any chart to log more into it. When it is time for an appointment, the same data becomes a vet report you can share before you go.
In the app
What it looks like
