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Turn rambling notes into a one-page pet-sitter guide for two dogs and a cat with Claude

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by Chris Ivey (LinkedIn)
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Outcome

Before a trip, Chris Ivey usually stayed up the night before writing instructions for the pet sitter. This time Ivey gave Claude rambling notes about the two dogs and the cat, and Claude turned them into a clean one-page house-sitting guide covering the feeding schedule, medications, the door code and the vet's details. After a couple of tweaks it was done, and Claude also blurred the personal details so Ivey could share the finished guide publicly.

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Claude

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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Turn my notes into a one-page guide a pet sitter can follow at a glance.

Fill in before running:
- My notes on each pet (feeding, medications, walks, quirks): [NOTES]
- House details the sitter needs (door code, Wi-Fi, where things are): [DETAILS]
- Vet and emergency contacts: [DETAILS]

This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first.

Rules:
- Fit it on one page, with a section per pet.
- Put feeding and medication times in a simple daily table.
- Copy medication names and doses exactly as I wrote them, and flag anything unclear instead of guessing.
- Put emergency contacts at the top.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.

Output: A one-page printable guide.

You'll know it worked when: the sitter doesn't need to message me with questions.

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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Turn my notes into a one-page guide a pet sitter can follow at a glance.

Fill in before running:
- My notes on each pet (feeding, medications, walks, quirks): [NOTES]
- House details the sitter needs (door code, Wi-Fi, where things are): [DETAILS]
- Vet and emergency contacts: [DETAILS]

This is admin and preparation help, not veterinary advice. Don't diagnose or suggest treatments or doses. If anything I mention sounds urgent, tell me to contact my vet, an emergency vet or an animal poison control line first.

Rules:
- Fit it on one page, with a section per pet.
- Put feeding and medication times in a simple daily table.
- Copy medication names and doses exactly as I wrote them, and flag anything unclear instead of guessing.
- Put emergency contacts at the top.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.

Output: A one-page printable guide.

You'll know it worked when: the sitter doesn't need to message me with questions.

Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.

Source

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christopher-ivey-344ab935_my-wife-and-i-recently-got-back-from-a-trip-activity-7471673529709572096-X-MR

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