The days after a dog's tooth extraction come with a short list of rules - pain medication on time, soft food only, nothing hard to chew, and a recheck in a week or so. PetHealthLog keeps that 10 to 14 day window in one place: schedule each dose, tick off the soft-food days, watch for warning signs, and walk into the follow-up with a clear record. Free, no account, works offline.
Start tracking - it's freeA dog usually comes home from an extraction groggy from the anaesthetic, and for the next week or two the recovery rests on a handful of things: give the pain medication as directed, keep to soft food, stop the chewing on hard toys and bones that could disturb the site, and get back for the recheck. None of it is complicated - but the first day or two are a blur, and "did the lunchtime dose happen, or did I just mean to?" is easy to lose.
Most dogs are largely healed in about 10 to 14 days, so the soft-food and no-chew rules have a clear finish line - if you can remember which day you are on. A missed pain dose, or hard kibble slipped in too early, are exactly the small slips that make the window rougher than it needs to be.
PetHealthLog is free, asks for no account and works offline, so the doses sit on a schedule, the soft-food days count down, and anything that looks off gets a dated note you can take to the recheck.
A recovery log only helps if it is quick to keep up and makes the rules obvious. Here is how PetHealthLog handles both.
Add the pain medication - and an antibiotic if one was sent home - with how often each is due. The doses sit on a timeline so none gets lost in the groggy first days, and you can see at a glance what has been given.
Set the recovery length your vet gave you and tick off each soft-food day. The window becomes an obvious countdown instead of a guess, so you know when it is safe to ease back toward normal food and chews.
A place to log swelling, a bad smell, ongoing bleeding, pawing at the mouth or a dog that will not eat - each with the date. If you need to call the clinic, you have the detail rather than a vague memory.
A quick mark for whether your dog ate well and seems comfortable builds a day-by-day picture of the recovery, so you can tell a slow-but-steady improvement from something that has stalled.
Export a clean PDF of the doses given, the soft-food days and any warning signs you logged. The follow-up exam starts from a real record of how the recovery actually went.
The diet and the medication come from the vet who did the extraction - but the practical side is feeding soft, easy meals for a week or two and not letting your dog get at anything hard while the mouth heals. The everyday things owners reach for are wet food or food toppers to soften meals, a slow-feeder bowl so a hungry dog does not gulp, and soft plush toys to satisfy the urge to mouth something without risking the site.
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The doses fall across busy days and tired evenings, and the warning sign you want to remember turns up at the worst moment. The last thing that should stand between you and logging it is a login screen or a dead signal at home.
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 a swelling 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 PetHealthLogKeep up the brushing and dental routine once the mouth has healed, to help avoid the next extraction.
The general companion for any operation - meds, the wound and the rest period in one place.
If an antibiotic went home after the extraction, make sure the course is finished right to the last pill.
Schedule any dog medication, mark doses given, and catch the ones that slip during recovery.