An antibiotic course only works if your dog finishes it - every dose, right to the last pill, usually twice a day with food. PetHealthLog lets you schedule each dose against meals, mark them off as you go, catch the ones that slip, and see at a glance how many days are left until the course is done. Free, no account, works offline.
Start tracking - it's freeWhen a vet prescribes antibiotics, the instruction is almost always the same: give every dose and finish the whole course, even after your dog seems back to normal. Stopping early or skipping doses can leave some bacteria behind, which is one of the ways an infection comes back or becomes harder to treat - sometimes meaning a longer course or a different antibiotic next time.
The trouble is that a typical course runs a week or two, twice a day, often with a meal - and "did the evening dose actually get given, or did I just think about it?" is an easy thing to lose halfway through. A dose missed here and there is exactly the pattern the instruction is trying to prevent.
A tracker built around the course closes that gap. PetHealthLog is free, asks for no account and works offline, so each dose sits against its meal, the misses stay visible, and you can see how many are left until the course is properly finished.
A medication log only helps if it is quick to keep up twice a day and makes finishing the course obvious. Here is how PetHealthLog handles both.
Add the antibiotic and set it to the meals it goes with - usually morning and evening for a twice-daily course. Many antibiotics sit easier on the stomach with food, and a dose tied to a meal is far harder to forget than a vague daily reminder.
Set the length of the course and the tracker shows the days remaining, so finishing it is an obvious goal rather than something that fizzles out once your dog perks up. The last pill is just as visible as the first.
Tick a dose as you give it, and one that was skipped stays visible rather than disappearing. A missed dose is the single most common way a course goes off track - and now it is something you can actually see and raise with your vet.
Antibiotics can upset a dog's stomach. A quick note - loose stool, off food, threw up the dose - sits next to the timeline, so if something needs reporting to the vet you have the detail rather than a vague memory.
Export a clean PDF of the doses given, any missed, and the side-effect notes. If the infection lingers or you need a recheck, the conversation starts from a real record of how the course actually went.
The antibiotic itself comes from your vet - but getting a pill into a dog twice a day for two weeks is its own small challenge, and a dose your dog spits out is a dose that did not count. The everyday tools owners reach for are pill pockets to hide the tablet in something tasty, and a weekly pill organiser so you can lay out the whole course and see at a glance whether a dose was taken.
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A twice-daily dose has to happen on a busy morning and a tired evening, sometimes for two weeks straight. The last thing that should stand between you and ticking it off is a login screen or a dead signal in the kitchen.
PetHealthLog stores everything locally on your device. There is no account to create, nothing is uploaded to a server, and there is no tracking. It opens instantly, lets you mark a dose or note an upset stomach whether or not you are online, and keeps the data yours. You can export a backup any time and restore it on another phone.
Free, offline, and ready the moment you open it.
Start with PetHealthLogIf finishing the course is hard because your dog spits pills out, log what works and flag every refused dose.
Schedule any dog medication, mark doses given, and catch the ones that slip - the everyday companion to a one-off antibiotic course.
Keep your dog's weight handy so you and your vet can sanity-check doses, and see how the weight has changed over time.
Track the meds, the wound and the rest period after an operation - often the time a course of antibiotics is prescribed.
Keep a probiotic on schedule alongside or after a course of antibiotics, and log how your dog's stomach is settling.