A pet goals app to train, care for and welcome your animal

How can a pet goals app help you and your animal?

Living with an animal is full of small goals: teaching a puppy to sit, brushing a cat every week, riding more often, getting your home ready for a new arrival. Bemelio turns those intentions into clear goals you can follow. You choose the Pets category, then a sub-category, give your goal a title and decide whether it is public or private.

In each sub-category, the app suggests example goals to help you get started, so you never face a blank page. Then you add your progress as you go, and you can see at a glance how far you and your animal have come. Bemelio is not a veterinary service: for any question about your animal's health, your vet remains the right person to ask.

• Dog training and care
• Cat care
• Small and exotic pets
• Horse riding and equine care
• Preparing an adoption
• Veterinary health

How do you track your pet's progress day after day?

A big goal like teaching your dog the basic commands feels easier once you split it into steps you can tick off: sit, stay, come back, walk on a loose lead. Each ticked step shows what is done and what comes next. You do not need to plan everything at once. Add steps as you learn what works for your animal.

Every time you move forward, you post an update on your goal: a few words, a photo or a video. The first walk without pulling, a calm grooming session, a new enclosure set up. Together, your updates tell the story of your progress from start to finish, and they are a pleasure to look back on.

Depending on the sub-category, your goal also comes with built-in tracking tools. For dogs, cats, small and exotic pets and horses, a streak lets you tick each day you made progress and watch it grow. For dogs and horses, a session timer records each training or riding session and keeps the history.

Why move forward with other pet owners?

Training a dog or preparing for a competition can feel lonely when progress takes time. On Bemelio, you follow people and see their updates in your feed. You can react, comment and see how others approach the same kind of goal. Circles bring together people heading in the same direction, and the messaging lets you talk privately.

Caring for an animal is often a shared job. With a co-goal, you share a goal with another person, who becomes its co-author: the partner who handles the evening walks, a family member, the friend who rides the same horse. You can also turn an update into a visual to share in a story on social media, with a link to your Bemelio profile.

Not everything has to be public. If you would rather keep a goal to yourself, for example one about your animal's health, you can make it private when you create it. The app also lets you discover experts, such as coaches and specialists, and events.

• Follow people and comment on their updates
• Join circles heading in the same direction
• Message other members privately
• Share a goal with someone as a co-goal
• Turn an update into a story visual

What method helps you stick with your pet goals?

Start small and specific. A goal like having a well-behaved dog is hard to measure, while teaching your dog to sit on command is clear. Break each goal into steps your animal can handle, and give it time. Every animal learns at its own pace, so adjust the steps rather than pushing harder.

Regularity often matters more than long sessions. A short daily routine, at a time that suits you both, is easier to keep than an ambitious plan you drop after a week. Tick your streak, time your sessions if you train or ride, and post an update when something changes, even something small.

Measure what you can actually see: a step ticked, a session logged, a photo of progress. Look back at your updates now and then to notice the road travelled. For anything related to health, vaccines or symptoms, Bemelio is simply a place to organise your goals: your vet remains the right person for medical advice.

• Pick one clear goal at a time
• Break it into small steps
• Keep a regular, realistic routine
• Record each bit of progress in an update
• Ask your vet about any health question

Pet goal ideas to get you started

Here are a few goals you can set up on Bemelio, whatever animal shares your life.

• Teach my dog the basic commands
• Walk my dog at least 1 hour a day
• Set up a coat care routine for my cat
• Enrich my cat's environment
• Master my exotic pet's habitat
• Ride 3 times a week
• Prepare for a riding competition
• Get my home ready for an adoption

Tools to follow your pet goals

Depending on the sub-category you choose, your goal comes with tools that make your progress visible.

Get started in 3 steps

1. 1

   Download the app

   Install Bemelio for free on iPhone from the App Store or on Android from Google Play.

2. 2

   Create your pet goal

   Choose the Pets category and a sub-category, give your goal a title and make it public or private.

3. 3

   Post your first update

   Share where you are starting from with a few words, a photo or a video of you and your animal.