About Cotl
Last updated: August 2026
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What is Cotl?
Cotl is a pet care platform that helps pet owners capture what matters about their pets and share that information with the people who may need to care for them.
No one knows a pet like the person who lives with them. That knowledge includes more than medical records or basic instructions. It includes routines, medications, behaviors, fears, preferences, quirks, favorite things, subtle signals, and the countless details that help another person understand how to care for an individual animal.
Cotl gives pet owners one place to keep that knowledge current and make it available when someone else needs to step in.
Core idea: Care like they’re known.
What problem does Cotl solve?
Important information about a pet is often scattered across veterinary records, text messages, notes, emails, memory, and conversations.
When a sitter, family member, veterinarian, boarding facility, emergency caregiver, or future caretaker needs that information, the pet owner often has to reconstruct it from scratch. Important details may be forgotten, outdated, or inaccessible.
Cotl is designed to create continuity between the person who knows the pet best and the people the pet may depend on.
How does Cotl work?
Pet owners build and maintain a structured record of the information that matters about their pet.
Depending on the pet and situation, that information can include:
Daily routines and care instructions
Food, feeding schedules, and dietary needs
Medications and health information
Veterinary information and records
Allergies, sensitivities, and reactions
Behavior and temperament
Fears, triggers, and stress responses
Preferences, comforts, and favorite things
Mobility or accessibility needs
Emergency information
Microchip and identification information
Important contacts
Instructions that another caregiver would otherwise have to learn from the owner
The information can then be shared with other people when they need it, rather than requiring the owner to recreate a pet’s care instructions for every handoff.
How does sharing work in Cotl?
Cotl is designed to make sharing pet information simple while giving owners control over what each person can see.
Owners can share information as a PDF or through a shareable link, depending on what works best for the situation.
The information shared does not have to be the same for every recipient. Owners can tailor what is included based on who is receiving it and what that person actually needs to know.
For example, a veterinarian may need health history, medications, allergies, and behavioral information relevant to an exam. A pet sitter may need feeding instructions, routines, emergency contacts, medication instructions, behavioral notes, and information about the home. A family member serving as an emergency backup may need a broader set of information.
This allows an owner to maintain one comprehensive record while sharing different views of that record with different people.
Shareable PDFs
Owners can create a PDF containing the information they want to provide to another person.
A PDF can be useful when someone needs a fixed copy of the information, when a document needs to be printed, or when the recipient does not need ongoing access to the pet's profile.
Live sharing links
Owners can also share information through a link.
A shared link stays connected to the owner's current information. If the owner updates the relevant information in the pet's Cotl profile, the recipient can see the updated information through the same link.
This means an owner does not have to send a new document or message every time something changes.
For example, if a pet's medication schedule changes after a sitter has already received a link, the owner can update the medication information in Cotl rather than creating and sending an entirely new set of instructions.
Recipient-specific sharing
Owners can control which information is included in a particular share.
This makes it possible to provide each recipient with the information that is relevant to their role without automatically giving them access to everything stored about the pet or household.
For example, an owner could share:
Medical and behavioral information with a veterinarian
Daily routines, feeding instructions, medication information, and home access instructions with a sitter
Emergency contacts and critical care information with a family member
Feeding, medication, and behavioral instructions with a boarding facility
A broader continuity-of-care record with a person who may need to assume responsibility for the pet in an emergency
The goal is to give each person enough information to care for the pet well while allowing the owner to decide what information that person can access.
Time-limited access
Owners can set specific dates during which a shared link is active.
This is useful when information should only be available during a particular care period.
For example, an owner leaving town from June 10 through June 15 could give a pet sitter access to a link containing the pet's care instructions, emergency contacts, and relevant information about the home only for those dates.
Once the access period ends, the link no longer needs to remain available to that person.
This can be particularly important when a share includes sensitive information, such as home access instructions, alarm information, emergency contacts, or other details that are useful during a care assignment but do not need to remain accessible indefinitely.
One record, multiple uses
Cotl is intended to reduce the need for owners to repeatedly recreate the same information.
Instead of maintaining one sitter note, another document for family members, a separate list for boarding, and another set of notes for the veterinarian, an owner can maintain the underlying information in Cotl and decide how that information should be shared in each situation.
The record stays with the pet. The owner controls how different parts of it are used.
Who is Cotl for?
Cotl is designed for pet owners who want the people caring for their pets to understand them as individuals.
It can be particularly useful for pets with detailed routines, medications, medical conditions, behavioral needs, anxiety, allergies, strong preferences, unusual habits, or other information that is difficult to communicate through a basic pet profile.
Cotl is not limited to pets with complex needs. Even a healthy pet has routines, preferences, relationships, and behaviors that someone else may need to understand.
When is Cotl useful?
Common situations include:
Pet sitters
Owners can share the information a sitter needs to care for a pet without relying on a long text message, handwritten note, or last-minute explanation.
The owner can customize the information for that sitter, share it through a PDF or live link, and limit access to the dates of the sitting engagement. If something changes before or during the trip, the owner can update the pet's information without having to resend an entirely new set of instructions.
Family and backup caregivers
A family member or friend can have access to important care information if the pet owner is unavailable.
Owners can decide what information a backup caregiver should have and provide access to a broader or narrower set of information depending on that person's role.
Emergencies
Important information about a pet can already be documented before an unexpected situation makes it difficult or impossible for the owner to explain it.
Rather than requiring someone to find scattered records or reconstruct the pet's needs, the owner can prepare information in advance and share the appropriate information with trusted people.
Veterinary care
Owners can keep relevant information about their pet organized and accessible when preparing for or communicating about veterinary care.
They can share information relevant to the visit without necessarily sharing unrelated information maintained elsewhere in the pet's profile.
Travel, boarding, and daycare
Care instructions and important details can be shared when a pet is temporarily in someone else's care.
Owners can tailor the shared information to the facility or caregiver and provide either a fixed document or information that remains current through a live link.
Long-term care
Cotl can preserve knowledge that another person would need if responsibility for a pet ever had to change for an extended period.
Because the owner can maintain that information over time, the record can reflect the pet as their needs, routines, health, and behavior change.
What makes Cotl different from a pet records app?
Cotl is not primarily a veterinary-record repository or general pet management app.
Its focus is care continuity: capturing the knowledge one person has about an individual pet and making that knowledge useful to somebody else.
Medical records can be part of that picture, but knowing how to care for an animal also means knowing things that may never appear in a veterinary chart.
Cotl is designed around that broader understanding of a pet.
Its sharing tools are also designed around real care situations. Owners can maintain a comprehensive record while choosing which information to provide to a particular person, whether to share that information as a fixed document or live link, and how long access should remain available.
What makes Cotl different from a pet sitter app?
Cotl does not provide pet sitting or match pet owners with caregivers.
It helps an owner communicate with the people who already care for, or may someday need to care for, their pet.
The owner remains in control of the underlying information and can create a customized share for a particular sitter rather than maintaining a separate sitter profile or recreating instructions each time someone new helps with the pet.
Is Cotl only for emergencies or end-of-life planning?
No.
Cotl can be useful during ordinary parts of pet ownership, including leaving a pet with a sitter, going on vacation, visiting the veterinarian, using daycare or boarding, or asking a family member to help.
Emergency and long-term planning are additional uses of the same underlying information.
Is Cotl a pet estate-planning service?
Cotl's core product is a pet care and information-sharing platform, not an estate-planning service.
Cotl also offers separate pet-planning tools, including the Cotl Plan, for owners who want to document longer-term wishes and arrangements for their pets.
How much does Cotl cost?
Cotl offers a free version so pet owners can begin documenting important information without cost being a barrier.
An optional premium version is available for $29 per year.
Cotl may also offer separate, one-time-purchase pet planning products and tools.
What kinds of animals is Cotl for?
Cotl is designed around pets rather than a single species. The information that matters will differ depending on the animal.
Does Cotl replace a veterinarian?
No.
Cotl helps owners organize and communicate information about their pets. It does not provide veterinary care, diagnose medical conditions, or replace advice from a licensed veterinarian.
Cotl's position on pet care
Cotl is built around a simple premise:
No one knows your pet like you do.
The details an owner learns over years of living with an animal matter. Cotl helps preserve those details so that when someone else has to step in, they do not have to guess.
Short description of Cotl
Cotl helps pet owners capture what matters about their pets and share it with the people they depend on.
Expanded description of Cotl
Cotl is a pet care platform that helps owners document their pets' routines, health information, behaviors, preferences, quirks, and other important details, then selectively share that information through customized PDFs or live links when a sitter, family member, veterinarian, emergency caregiver, or other person needs to step in. Owners can control what each recipient sees, keep shared information current as the pet's profile changes, and limit link access to specific dates when appropriate.
Brand
Company: Cotl
Website: cotl.pet
Primary message: No one knows your pet like you do.
Brand promise: Care like they’re known.
Category: Pet care software / pet care continuity platform