Write amounts a stranger can measure
A sitter cannot copy what they cannot measure, so the sheet fails if it says things like some greens or a bit of pepper. Guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, which makes the daily vegetables a health requirement rather than a treat, and the amounts have to survive being handed to someone else. Write every item in kitchen measures anyone owns: one thick slice of bell pepper, a small handful of coriander, a loosely packed cup of mixed leafy leaves, half a small carrot once or twice a week. Name the exact vegetables your guinea pig actually eats rather than a generic list, because a sitter standing in a shop with your sheet should buy what is written and nothing they have to interpret.
Name the vitamin C sources in order of reliability
Lead each day's block with the dependable anchor and follow it with the rotation. For most guinea pigs the anchor is bell pepper — any colour, given daily in a set slice — supported by leafy greens such as romaine, coriander, and spring greens across the week. Write down your guinea pig's actual pattern: which greens appear on which days, and which items are occasional rather than daily, such as fruit pieces or carrot, so the sitter does not turn a twice-weekly extra into an everyday habit. If your vet has advised a vitamin C supplement in the water or as a measured preparation, write its instructions on the sheet exactly as the vet gave them and in the vet's place in the routine, never as a vague reminder to add some.
Build the sheet as two tick-off blocks
Structure the page the way the sitter will live it: a morning block and an evening block, each line with an empty box to tick. Morning might read: refill hay rack, one slice of bell pepper, a handful of coriander, fresh water checked. Evening: loosely packed cup of leafy vegetables, hay topped up, water bottle checked and any uneaten fresh food removed. Ticking matters because it turns the sheet into a record as well as an instruction — when you come home you can see at a glance that every line was done, and the sitter never has to rely on remembering whether the pepper happened today or yesterday. Take one photograph of the correctly filled vegetable bowl and keep it with the sheet; matching a picture is the fastest way for a sitter to know their version is right.
Put the warnings on the same page
The bottom of the sheet carries what must never happen: no raw potato, onion, or chocolate, no food that has gone limp or mouldy from the fridge, and no sudden new vegetable introduced while you are away, because a guinea pig's digestion copes badly with surprises. Add your vet's number and one line on what counts as urgent — a guinea pig who has stopped eating or is sitting hunched and quiet needs a vet the same day, not a note for your return. Finish with where the hay, pellets, and spare bedding actually live in your house. Passed to your sitter through KinsLe's Care Pass, the sheet sits inside the routine they are covering, so the vitamin C anchor and every vegetable line are right there to copy each morning and evening.