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Kennel Card
A printed or digital summary card posted at a pet's kennel or run listing its name, owner, feeding, medication, and special-care instructions so staff can care for the animal correctly at a glance.
A kennel card is the quick-reference card attached to (or displayed digitally near) a boarding pet's run. It gives on-shift staff everything they need to care for that animal without pulling up the full record: the pet's name and photo, owner and emergency contact, feeding schedule and portion, medication times and doses, allergies, temperament notes, and check-out date.
Historically these were index cards clipped to the kennel door. Modern boarding and kennel software prints kennel cards in a batch each morning or shows them on a wall-mounted screen, pulling live data from the pet's profile so nothing is transcribed by hand. That reduces feeding and medication errors, which are among the most damaging mistakes a boarding facility can make.
Good kennel-card layouts use color coding or icons for critical flags — bite risk, does-not-play-with-others, prescription diet, or medical alerts — so a new or relief staff member instantly sees what matters. Because the card is generated from the same record used at check-in, updates (a new medication, a diet change) propagate automatically to the next print.
Kennel cards pair closely with run assignment and feeding/medication schedules; together they form the operational backbone of a boarding shift.