Households
The dog is shared. The account shouldn't be.
Up to five people, one shared pack, and nobody ever holding anybody else's password. Every read, every keepsake photo and the whole health journal are shared; your bones, your streak and your daily read allowance are not. Free, on every plan.
Why it exists
Two people, one dog, and one very confused app
The obvious fix is to hand over your password. It works for about a day. Then the app is greeting your partner by your name, wearing your theme, counting your streak — and every read looks like you took it, including the eleven-o'clock one where somebody else was filming the dog staring at the washing machine.
A household fixes it in the data instead of the password. Everyone signs in as themselves, and the server holds one pack and up to five separate people. That eleven-o'clock read still lands on your phone the moment it finishes — stamped with the name of whoever was actually holding the camera.
Setting one up
From solo to shared in three steps
Solo to shared
- One of you creates itYour pack, reads and health move in
- A code goes out24 hours, one person, then it is dead
- The dog is sharedReads, photos and the journal, for everyone
- You are notSeparate sign-ins, separate allowances, separate plans
One of you creates it
Settings → Household → Create our household. Name it whatever you shout at dinner time; the app offers “Our pack”. Your dogs, reads, keepsakes and health journal move in while you watch it happen.
The owner mints a code
Single use, good for twenty-four hours, and only ever one live at a time — minting a fresh code kills the last one. Nobody ever has to work out whether a character is an O or a zero, because the alphabet it's drawn from contains neither.
They type it, and the whole house finds out
There's a switch on the join screen: bring my dogs, reads & health with me, or leave them behind in your own account, where they sit untouched — and out of sight — until you leave the household again. The instant a code is used, everyone already in is notified; a leaked code can't let somebody in quietly.
The split
Everything about the dog is shared. Everything about you isn't.
What the household shares
- Every dog in the pack — profile, photos, weight, the lot
- Every read, live on every phone the moment it lands
- The keepsake album and every photo in it
- The health journal: weights, medications, notes, meals and walks
- Reminders — set the booster once and it fires on everyone's phone
What stays yours
- Your sign-in. Nobody in the house ever holds your password
- Your name, so the app greets the right human
- Your theme, bones, streak, quiz scores and bookmarks
- Your daily read allowance — and your plan, if you have one
- Your notification settings — each person decides what their phone rings for
The honest bit
Two things a household won't do for you
It won't pool anything you pay for. Every member reads at their own allowance, and a subscription belongs to the account that bought it, not to the address. So if you're on Whisperer and your housemate is on the free plan, you get your reads, your breed checks, the weekly report and Story Mode; they get one read a day and the whole shared world around it. No family plan, no household tier. Pooling free reads would make it worse, not better: one household, one read a day, spent before the second person is awake.
And it won't hand your contribution back. Whatever moves in when you join belongs to the family from that moment, and leaving doesn't peel it back out again — only the last member out takes it home. Worth deciding on the way in rather than on the way out.
Who did what
Every read remembers who took it
Each read is stamped with the member who captured it, and the security rules accept a read only when it's authored as the person sending it — so nobody can file a read under somebody else's name, by accident or otherwise. Open one your partner took and it says Captured by Alex underneath. Your own say nothing. You were there.
Keepsake photos have one hard edge. Anyone in the household sees every photo, and only the person who captured one can delete the file — the server refuses everybody else. Remove a keepsake your housemate took and it leaves the album for everyone, them included. The file itself survives on their side, and only they can ever delete it.
Hiding is household-wide, not per-phone. Take a read out of the mood history and it goes for everyone at once: the family's stats, the album and the vet visit summary all drop it, and nobody in the house can put it back. Reads are append-only by design, so removing one hides it rather than deleting a history nobody else agreed to lose.
Leaving
What happens when someone walks out the door
Anyone can leave, and the owner can also remove a member. Either way the person going keeps their own account and stops seeing the pack, while their dogs, their reads and the photos they took stay with the household — there is no way to take them back out with you. If the owner is the one leaving, a remaining member inherits ownership on the spot. A household is never allowed to be ownerless.
The last member out is the one exception, and the whole thing comes home with them. Invite codes die first — no live code is ever left pointing at a house with nobody in it — and then the household itself closes.
And if someone erases their Dogoos account while the rest of you carry on, their photos go with them and the reads they took stay as mood data, attributed to a former member. Your dog's history doesn't grow a hole where a person used to be.
Questions, answered
The things families actually ask
Does a household cost anything?
No. It's free on every plan, the free one included, and it lives in Settings → Household.
Can we share one subscription across the house?
No. A plan belongs to the account that bought it. The shared world — dogs, reads, album, health journal — is free for everyone in the household; the paid extras follow the person paying for them. Reads and breed checks come out of your own allowance, never a family pot.
Who can send invites?
The household owner. Codes are single-use and expire after twenty-four hours, only one is live at a time, and every existing member is notified the moment one is used — so a code that ends up in the wrong group chat can't quietly add a stranger.
Can I join without handing over my own dogs?
Yes — there's a switch on the join screen. Leave it off and your pack, reads and health journal stay in your own account, out of sight while you're in the household: the app shows you the household's dogs and the household's history until you leave again.
If I leave, do I take my reads with me?
No. What moves in belongs to the family from then on — your dogs, your reads, your keepsake photos and your health notes stay with the household, and there is no take-mine-back switch. The one exception is being the last person out, which brings the whole thing home with you.
Do reminders fire on everyone's phone?
Yes. The journal is shared, so a reminder anyone sets is scheduled on every member's device — and each person's own notification settings still decide whether it makes a sound.
Should I add someone if my dog has a health condition?
Everyone in a household can read the whole journal: weights, medications, notes, meals, walks and reminders. Share it with the people you'd already talk to about your dog's health. And the journal only ever records what you put in it — Dogoos records it, never calculates it. Anything that worries you goes to a qualified vet, not to an app.
We don't live together — can we still use it?
Nothing in a household knows or cares where anyone lives. It's a group of accounts, not an address. If you're sharing a dog across two homes, sharing a dog goes through the awkward parts properly.
One dog, one history,
however many of you there are.
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