Reading the owner record
Request owner permission to read a pet’s health record in Petus Vet, understand sharing scope and expiry, and find the information available to you.
On this page
Record access on Petus is owner-consented and scoped by section. The owner picks what you see when they share; you read, never write; every access is logged. The owner can revoke at any time.
Find or request a record
Open Patients to see active records shared with your account. To request one, expand Request shared health records, enter the owner's email and an optional message, then choose Send access request.
If that email belongs to a Petus account, the owner can review the request in Care Circle. The owner chooses the pet, sections, and sharing duration. Sending the request does not grant access. If a record disappears, check whether its share expired or was revoked and ask the owner about renewing it.
What a share can contain
| Sections | Sharing |
|---|---|
| Allergies | Always included in any vet share |
| Basics, meds & prescriptions | Owner-selected |
| Vaccinations, labs & weight | Owner-selected |
| Diet, timeline, files & photos | Owner-selected |
| Chat, journal & private notes | Never shared |
Allergies ride every vet share regardless of scope: no sharing choice can hide an allergy from a treating vet. The last row is excluded in code, not by convention — no share setting can grant it.
The record page
A shared pet opens as a clinical record: problem list, current meds and allergies, weight trend, lab results with per-analyte trends across providers, vaccination book, diet history, and the timeline of visits, symptoms, and files. What you see depends on the sections the owner shared.
Provisional access
An access request grants nothing by itself: the record opens only when the owner approves it, scoped to the sections they chose. While your application is still under review, records owners have already shared with you stay open in a pared-back view, under the same data-handling terms.