About Pawket
It started with a folder from 2021.
Pawket is built by one person with three dogs, for the moment someone asks for proof and the paperwork is nowhere near.
In May 2021 I made a folder for my dogs’ paperwork. A subfolder for each of the three, rabies certificates, vaccination records, a lab report, a dental estimate. It was a good folder. By 2025 the newest rabies certificates in it had expired, and nothing told me.
Storage was never the problem. Keeping it current was. And the moment it mattered wasn’t a reminder going off. It was somebody on the other side of a counter, or an email thread, asking for the certificate right now.
The paper trail
- 2021
The folder
One subfolder per dog: rabies certificates, vaccination records, a lab report, a dental estimate. Organized, and then left alone.
- 2025
The certificates expire
The newest rabies certificates in the folder run out. The folder has no way to say so.
- Jan 2026
A new vet
The old clinic’s app held the history, and it stayed with the old clinic. Those apps are free only while the clinic pays for them.
- Aug 2026
Somebody asks
An apartment application. A pet-screening service emails five days running for a current rabies certificate.
- Sep 2026
Paper at the desk
The new vet prints the invoice and hands it over. Pawket starts, built around a photo taken at the counter.
Nobody needed another reminder. Three different systems already send those. What I needed was to hand the proof to somebody else, today.
What I decided early
Built for handing over, not for looking at.
Every pet app I tried is built around viewing your own records. The hard part is giving them to a leasing office that will never make an account, so that’s where the effort goes.
It never guesses a date.
A wrong date is worse than no date, because a wrong date looks trustworthy. If it isn’t printed on the paper, the field stays blank.
It doesn’t send reminders.
Your vet already does. Pawket tells you what’s expired or missing whenever you open it, and leaves the nagging to the people who have your appointment book.
The history follows you.
Your records aren’t kept in a clinic’s system, so changing vets doesn’t leave them behind. Pawket never writes into a clinic’s system either.
What you paid stays yours.
A share link carries certificates and whatever else you turn on for it. Vet invoices are never on it.
Where it is now
Pawket is used by exactly one household: mine. That’s on purpose. The software is the easy part. The hard part is whether photographing the paper at the counter becomes a habit, and that’s only worth asking a stranger to try once it’s proven here.
It isn’t your vet’s record and doesn’t pretend to be. Every shared page says so, and suggests confirming with the vet.