Contact and vet information a walker must carry
A walker is alone with your dog in public, so the records that matter most are the ones usable from a pavement or a park gate. Give your own mobile number, a second emergency contact who can actually make decisions, and your vet's name, address, and phone number, saved in the walker's phone rather than only on paper left at your house. Add written permission for the walker to take your dog to your vet, or the nearest vet in a real emergency, and say how emergency costs reach you, because a walker hesitating over authorisation wastes the minutes that matter. Include microchip details and a recent photo of your dog on that same sheet, so that if he ever slips a lead, the walker can circulate an accurate description and image immediately instead of describing him from memory under stress.
The walking brief: behaviour written down, not mentioned in passing
Write a short walking brief covering how your dog behaves where the walker will meet it. Say how strongly he pulls, whether his recall is reliable or whether he stays on a long line, which dogs or types of dogs he reacts to, and what reliably gets his attention back. Note his feelings about traffic, bikes, joggers, children, livestock, water, and mud, and any place on your usual routes where he is known to lunge, scavenge, or try to roll in something dreadful. Add health points that change a walk: a heart condition that caps exertion, a healing paw that must stay dry, a senior dog who needs a shorter route on cold days, or a young dog whose walks are limited while he grows. Walkers plan routes and groupings from this brief, and a dog whose triggers are written down is far easier to keep out of trouble than one described as generally fine.
House access and after-walk details
Walkers also need the unglamorous household records: how they get in, whether by key, code, or a key safe, any alarm instructions, and where leads, harness, treats, towels, and water bowls live. Say what should happen after the walk, such as paws dried, water refreshed, a small meal given, or the dog settled in a particular room, and whether doors or stair gates must be closed behind him. Note anything about the home itself that affects the dog, like a cat who must not be let out or a neighbour's dog behind a shared fence. Put access codes and alarm details in writing for the walker rather than sending them in a message thread that scrolls away, and update them the moment a lock, code, or routine changes, because out-of-date access information is the commonest cause of a missed walk.
Keeping the walker's copy current and bounded
Review the whole pack whenever anything changes: new vet, new emergency contact, new behaviour after an incident, or a change in his health or daily care. Professional walkers keep their own notes too, including walk times, behaviour on the day, and anything unusual, and those logs are worth asking to see, because a pattern of scavenging on one route or stiffness after longer walks is useful information for you and your vet. When you stop using a walker, retrieve keys and ask for your written details back; records handed over for care should not drift onward. Handing the pack over through KinsLe's Care Pass keeps that sharing temporary and tidy, so the walker works from his current routine while you stay in control of the details.