The physical items worth having
- Gauze and a self-adhesive bandage, not sticky tape that pulls on fur
- A muzzle or soft wrap, even a calm pet can bite when in pain
- Saline solution, for flushing a wound or eye
- A spare collar and lead, kept separately from the ones in daily use
- A carrier accessible without digging through a cupboard
The paperwork half, which matters just as much
A physical kit without information attached only solves half the problem. Alongside it, worth having ready: current medications and doses, your vet's contact details, an emergency or out-of-hours vet if different, and anything specific a new vet would need to know quickly.
Worth knowing: in a genuine emergency, an unfamiliar vet treating your pet for the first time needs the medication list immediately, not reconstructed from memory while you're stressed.
Where to actually keep it
Somewhere genuinely fast to grab, not a top shelf or the back of a cupboard. If it takes more than thirty seconds to find in a real emergency, it's in the wrong place.
The part that's already covered
The information half of this list is the exact same thing built for handing a pet over to a sitter: current medications, vet contacts, and what's normal for this specific pet. Halo's Carer's Pack already has it ready, generated in a tap, so the physical kit is the only thing left to actually assemble.