The pack
Every dog in the household, on every member's phone. Adding one counts against the dog limit of whoever adds it.
Sharing a dog
Two homes, one dog
Whether dinner has already gone in today. What the other house wrote in the journal on Tuesday. Whether he's really lost weight across a fortnight neither of you saw whole. A household puts the dog's whole record on both phones, and neither of you ever holds the other's password.
The handover
The dog is fine. The handover isn't.
Sunday evening. He comes back with his harness, his blanket and no information whatsoever. He was quiet on Friday, apparently. He's eaten, probably. Somebody mentioned the stairs. You now own the next four days of a dog whose last three you have to reconstruct from a text message.
Then it runs the other way on Thursday, and the half of the week you wrote down goes out of the door with him. Two people each keeping half a record isn't a record. It's how a dog gets his dinner twice on a Tuesday and not at all on a Thursday, and how a fortnight of slowly going off his food looks like a normal week to each of you in turn.
It costs you at the vet counter, where "a week or two?" is the only answer you have.
Setting it up
Nobody has to share a password
The obvious fix is one login on two phones, and it costs you everything that makes the app yours: one name on the hello screen, one theme, one streak, and every read in the history filed under whichever of you first typed the password. Share a dog with someone you no longer share an address with and that last part starts to matter.
A household is the better answer. You each sign in as yourselves and the dog is what's shared: one pack, one read history, one keepsake album, one health journal, on every member's phone the moment anything lands.
One of you becomes the owner
Settings → Household → Create our household. Whoever creates it owns it, and the owner is the only person who can make invite codes or remove a member. If the owner ever leaves, ownership passes to a remaining member automatically.
One code, one use, twenty-four hours
The owner makes an invite code: a one-time key to the family's whole private record (every read, every keepsake, every health note). Only one is ever live, making a fresh one retires the last, and using it spends it on the spot. Everyone already in is told the moment a code is used.
The other house brings its own dog in
The switch on the join screen says Bring my dogs, reads & health with me, and it starts on. Leave it on and their reads and journal arrive, along with their profile for the dog, as a second dog. Read the note below before anybody taps it.
Two profiles for one dog stay two dogs. If you've both already set him up, the household ends up holding both profiles, each with its own reads, weight curve and journal, and both count against the dog limit. Decide which one is the real record, then delete the other from the pack; it goes for the whole household at once.
Two houses, one dog, no shared password
- Each of you signs inYour own account. Nobody hands over a password
- One of you invitesA code that lasts a day and works once
- The dog is sharedReads, photos and the health journal, both ways
- You stay separateYour plan, your allowance and your settings are yours
Shared and separate
Both houses see the dog. Neither sees your account.
The pack, the read history, the album and the journal live in the household. Bones, streak, theme and quiz scores stay in your account, and neither house can spend the other's daily read.
Every read, stamped
One history, both houses writing into it. Open a read the other house took and it says Captured by Alex underneath; your own say nothing, because you were there.
One health journal
Weights, medications, notes, meals, walks and reminders in one place. Set the worming reminder once and it's scheduled on every member's phone. Each person's own notification settings decide whether it makes a sound.
The keepsake album
Everyone in the household sees every keepsake. Only the account that took one can delete the file, from whichever device they're signed in on.
What never crosses over: your sign-in, your theme, your bones, your streak, your quiz scores. Your first name does: it's what the members list shows and what the Captured by Alex label reads. Nothing else about you travels with it.
Good to know
The parts that stay personal
Reads aren't pooled. Each of you reads on your own account's allowance, which on the free plan works in your favour: two homes means two free reads a day on the same dog, both landing in the same history. If one of you subscribes, the extra daily reads and the paid features belong to that account, and the other house carries on at whatever plan it's on.
Dogs are the one to plan for. Every dog in the household counts against the dog limit of whoever is adding, and the free plan's limit is one. So if the household already holds two profiles (his, and the duplicate you both made), a free member can't add anything until somebody on a paid plan does the adding, or the duplicate goes.
1 dogis the free plan's pack, and the household's dogs all
count against it. Two profiles of one dog count as two.
1 read a dayfree, each, forever. Two houses, two reads on
the same dog, and nobody's gets used up by the other's.
90 daysof notes on the vet summary, plus the last 30 days
of mood reads. Both houses wrote it; one of you carries it in.
What a household keeps straight
- Who is in the household: only an invite code lets somebody in.
- Who took a read: every read is stamped with the member who captured it.
- The five-person cap, checked as somebody joins.
- Which invite code is live: only one, and it's spent the moment it's used.
Good to know
- Reads and subscriptions stay with the account that has them.
- Two profiles of the same dog aren't merged; you pick the one to keep.
- Only the member who took a photo can delete the file.
- The limp is your vet's call. A household makes the history complete; your vet reads it.
At the vet
The appointment only one of you can get to
Someone has to take the afternoon off, and it's rarely the person who noticed the thing. Whoever ends up in the room is carrying both halves of the week: the weigh-ins you logged and the three loose stools they logged, each under its own date, in one list.
One tap builds the vet visit summary on the phone: the weight curve, current medications, vaccination and reminder status, 90 days of notes and the last 30 days of mood reads. It's made on the device, so it works in a waiting room with one bar of signal.
Dogoos records what you observed and the dose your vet gave you, in your vet's words. It never calculates a dose or interprets a symptom. The stairs are your vet's call.
Questions, answered
The questions that come up when it's two of you
We've both already made a profile for him. What happens when we join up?
You get two of him. Both profiles arrive in the shared pack, each carrying its own reads, weight history and journal, and both count against the dog limit. Work out which one holds the fuller record, then delete the other in the app. The pack is shared, so it goes for everyone at once.
He's at mine Monday to Thursday. Does the app need to know that?
No. A household is a group of accounts, not an address, and nothing in it asks whose week it is. Every entry carries its own date: meals against a day and a slot, weigh-ins and notes against a date, reads against the moment they were taken. Whoever opens it sees one continuous week rather than two halves.
Can I see who logged what?
For reads, yes: open one and it says Captured by Alex underneath, and your own say nothing. For the journal, no: a weight, a note, a meal or a walk lands in the shared list with its date and no name on it. Medications are recorded as a course (the name, the dose in your vet's words, how often), not as a tick each time one goes in. So "did anyone give him the tablet?" is still a text message.
We've split up. Who keeps the dog's history?
The household does. Anything that moved in when you joined belongs to it from that moment, and leaving doesn't take your half back out: your dogs, your reads, your keepsake photos and your health notes stay. The one exception is being the last person out, which carries the whole thing home to you and closes the household. If the owner is the one leaving, ownership passes to a remaining member automatically.
Can I keep part of the journal private?
No. Everyone in a household reads all of it: weights, medications, notes, meals, walks and reminders. There's no per-entry privacy, and taking a read out of the mood history removes it for everyone. Share a household with the people you'd already talk to about your dog's health, and if something in the journal worries you, that conversation is with a qualified vet.
Can we add the dog walker, or my mum on Wednesdays?
Yes, if they have their own Dogoos account and there's room. Five people is the most a household holds. Be clear what you're sharing: a member sees every read, every keepsake and the entire health journal. The owner can remove them whenever, but what they added while they were in stays with the household, and only they can delete the photos they took.
Two houses, one dog, one record between you.
Read the household setup guide
Invites, shared records and what happens when someone leaves.