Sitter Sheet
Fill this in once and hand your cat sitter a clear, printable care sheet — instead of a scribbled note or a long text message.
Who it is for: cat owners going away for a weekend or a fortnight, and the person looking after the cats while they are gone — a neighbour with a spare key, a friend, or a paid sitter who has never met them.
Nothing is saved anywhere: the sheet appears as you type, so print or copy it before you close the tab. Add a cat and a "Check the sheet for gaps" list appears above the form, naming every box you have left blank — each line is a link that jumps to that box.
1. The trip and the first five minutes
The back-up contact is the person the sitter can ring if they cannot reach you — a neighbour with a spare key, a friend, or a second sitter.
Typed by you: this page has no clock and stores nothing, so write the date (or just "Sunday") that you filled the sheet in. It prints at the top, so your sitter can see how fresh the notes are.
Optional, and the only block that sits above the arrival steps: each line becomes a short "Bring with you" list at the very top of the sheet, so the sitter knows before they set off. Handy for the little things — a torch for the shed, a towel, food for themselves.
Each line becomes a numbered step at the very top of the sheet, above the feeding table — the bits a sitter forgets on the first visit.
Each line becomes a "Where things are" list on the sheet, just under the arrival steps and above the feeding table, so the sitter is not opening every cupboard on the first visit. Keep it to the cat's own things — the bins, wifi and plants go in section 4.
Each line becomes a numbered "Before you leave for the last time" block near the end of the sheet, after the daily checklist and before the sitter's note lines — the round-up a sitter does not think of on the way out of the door.
One line on the sheet, under the feeding table, and a "Leftover food:" line in the plain text version. Leave this box empty and the page uses a standard line instead: an opened tin or pouch goes in a lidded pot in the fridge, and wet food left in a bowl for more than half an hour goes in the bin rather than back in the fridge.
2. The vet
Give the out-of-hours number its own box: at night and at weekends the clinic number often goes to an answerphone. It shows on the sheet in its own highlighted block at the top of the vet section.
The address can include a landmark or where to park, and the opening hours tell the sitter whether the clinic is even open when they set off. The out-of-hours box matters most: if a cat has medication written down and that box is still empty, the sheet shows a "Fill this in before you print" warning between the vet block and the cats, the plain text version carries the same warning, and the gaps list at the top of the page catches it too.
3. The cats
Add one cat at a time. To change a cat you have already added, press Edit on its chip — the fields below load it back in. The arrows on a chip move that cat up or down, and both the feeding table and the cat details on the sheet follow that order.
Two of these buttons ask before they act. "Clear everything" changes to "Yes, clear everything" on the first press and only clears on the second. "Load an example" asks in the same way, but only once you have typed something: on a page that is still empty it loads straight away, and on a page that is not, the first press only warns that it will replace what is on the page. Pressing Escape, typing in any box, loading the example, or waiting about eight seconds puts either button back, so a stray press cannot wipe a sheet you have already typed.
The example fills every box on the page, and it also ticks the three tick boxes next to the sheet — the leftover-food line, the sitter's note lines and the "Day 2 onward" grid — back on, so you see the whole sheet at once. It leaves the Day 2 column count (three, four or five) where you set it.
4. The house and odd jobs
The cat's own things — food, litter, carrier and where the used litter goes — have their own box in section 1. Use this section for the rest of the house: wifi, the household bins, plants, anything odd.
Each line becomes a tick box on the sheet and a "[ ]" line in the plain text version. Nothing here is saved — the sheet updates as you type.
The daily checklist on the sheet already carries the feeds, fresh water, litter trays, any medication and the daily once-over. Anything else the sitter should do each day — a second tablet check, a plant or a bin bag — goes here: one line each, added to the same tick list on the sheet and to the "[ ]" lines in the plain text version. If the "Day 2 onward" grid is on (the tick box next to the sheet), these same lines fill its rows as well, so the days after the first carry them too.
5. If a cat goes missing
The sheet always carries four short steps for a missing cat. Add your own notes here: hiding places, whether they are microchipped and where the number is kept, and how likely they are to wander.
Your sheet
Printing: each cat block, the feeding table, the Day 2 grid and every tick line are kept whole, so a long sheet runs onto a second page rather than splitting a cat in half. Print at 100% and let the paper take as many pages as it needs. If the sheet still runs long, choose Small above to fit more on each page; Large suits a sitter reading it across the room.
Nothing to fill in on this side yet: the sheet builds itself as you type. Start with one cat in section 3, or press Load an example there to see a whole filled-in sheet — the example is only sample text, so edit it into your own or clear it.
Once there is a cat on the list, the sheet fills up in this order:
- the top of the sheet: the things for the sitter to bring, the first things to do on arrival, and where the cat's food, litter and carrier live;
- the feeding table, with the leftover-food line under it, and the date you prepared the sheet;
- the contacts — you, the sitter, and a back-up name and number in case you cannot be reached;
- the vet: the out-of-hours number in its own highlighted block, plus the clinic address and opening hours — and a "fill this in before you print" warning when a cat is on medication but no out-of-hours number is written down;
- each cat, then anything else about the house and the jobs to tick off while you are away;
- the four steps for a missing cat, then a daily checklist to tick with your own extra lines at the end, a "Day 2 onward" grid with three, four or five blank date columns, a "Before you leave for the last time" round-up, and four ruled lines for the sitter's own notes.
Plain text version (for email or a message)
About
Sitter Sheet is a single static page built by an AI agent. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing you type is sent anywhere, and nothing is stored — reloading the page clears the form, so print or copy the sheet before you leave.
The sheet is a memory aid, not veterinary advice. For anything medical, follow your vet's instructions.
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