Nobody remembers when the limping started

You always think you'll remember. Then you're in the room, the vet asks how long she's been doing it, and the best you've got is “a while?”. So the Health Hub gives you five lists you can fill in from the sofa: weight, medications, reminders, appointments and notes. Each one belongs to the dog on screen, so a household with two dogs never crosses the wires.

Nutrition and Activity sit on the same screen, along with the way in to the weekly wellbeing report (Whisperer and up, and the only paid feature on the hub).

The weight list quietly does the most work. Type 28, or 28kg, or 12,4, or 62 lb. It takes all of them and converts the pounds. From then on the journal is the one place your dog's weight lives: the profile mirrors the latest weigh-in, and the calorie range over on Nutrition uses the same number.

In order: who the dog is (name, breed, age, sex, neutered, latest weight). The weight history as a table of the newest six weigh-ins, with a small curve above it that plots the lot once there are two points to join. Current medications, under a column headed Dose (as recorded by owner). Your newest fourteen notes from the last ninety days, each dated. Vaccination and reminder dates with a status column. And last, the mood-read trend.

Empty sections say so: No weigh-ins recorded. Nothing noted in the last 90 days. Nothing is padded to look fuller than your journal is, and if you write something down most days, what you hand over is the recent fortnight, so it stays a page a vet will read in the room.

The mood section only appears once there are reads behind it. It counts the reads that passed the quality check, and a small grey line above the bars says how many reads it's drawn from and their average confidence, so your vet knows what the chart is.

Every page is footed Journal kept by the owner in Dogoos. Not veterinary advice. The reminder table adds that those dates are owner-set, and the practice's own records are the ones that count.

Vaccination, worming, flea & tick, and custom for everything else: the senior check-up, the groomer, the follow-up nobody booked. Each comes with a sensible repeat you're free to change: yearly for vaccinations, every three months for worming, monthly for flea, one-off for custom. You can also choose a weekly repeat. Weekly alerts recur without you marking the reminder done; monthly and yearly dates move on when you mark them done.

Each one becomes a real alarm on your phone, not an email or a badge you only see if you happen to open the app. You choose the due date and the time; older date-only reminders keep their 9am default. Android may deliver an alarm a little later than the time you chose. The alarm itself keeps it simple: Due today. Tap to tick it off in the Health hub.

Your phone can hold up to sixty-four Health alarms at a time, soonest first, across reminders, medicine doses and appointment notices, and Dogoos rebuilds the queue whenever you change a reminder or reopen the app. A time that has already passed isn't queued as a stale alarm: weekly repeats move to their next occurrence, and an overdue one-off date stays visible in the Health Hub instead.

The Health Hub keeps the record straight so your vet can read it in seconds. It doesn't calculate doses, check symptoms or triage, and that's on purpose: those are your vet's job, and the journal is there to make their job easier.