Three dogs, one week, nothing written down

Maya needed stitches. Wick had a cough that wouldn't quit. Benny had a grooming appointment. All three, same week. I had nothing written down for any of them, so every vet conversation started with me guessing at dates from memory while a tech waited with a clipboard.

That week is the whole reason Pawformance exists.

I've got three dogs. Wick's the calm one, small eyes, never in a hurry about anything. Maya's the one with the happiest face I've ever seen on an animal. Benny's the anxious, energetic one, big ears, bigger feelings. Three different dogs, three different health histories, and I was keeping exactly none of it anywhere I could actually find it when I needed it.

So I built a tracker. Activity, food, health events, wellness over time, one dog or three. Free to start, no credit card, because the whole point was solving my own problem before I ever thought about charging anyone for it.

The app didn't need to be clever. It needed to answer one question fast: what happened with this dog, and when. That sounds simple until you're standing in a waiting room with a vet asking "has he done this before" and you genuinely don't know, because it's been eleven months and you're not a filing system, you're a person with three dogs and a job.

I built the whole thing around that one moment. Log it once, in under a minute, and it's there the next time someone in a white coat asks you a question you should know the answer to and don't.

The honest objection people raise first: my vet's portal already stores my pet's records. It does, for the visits that happened at that vet. It doesn't catch the thing you noticed at home on a Tuesday that you meant to mention and forgot by Thursday's appointment. That gap, between what happens in your house and what makes it into an official record, is the whole gap Pawformance closes.

Second objection, just as fair: I'd forget to log things after the first week. That's a real risk with any tracking app, and I won't pretend it isn't. What I can say is it takes under a minute per entry, which is the bar I held myself to while building it, because if logging took longer than the thing you're logging, nobody would keep doing it past week two.

Free tier, one paid tier at a real single price, no phantom middle tier, no bait-and-switch after signup. I'd rather have fewer people confused about what they're getting than more people who feel tricked into a plan they didn't understand.

If you've got a pet and a memory that isn't as good as you'd like it to be in a vet's office, that's who this is built for. Track your dog's health like a vet does. It's free to start.

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