Boarding brings her into close company with other cats, so a cattery protects every animal in the building by checking prevention records before a cat crosses the threshold. A first stay is often the moment owners discover their record is vague, scattered or one entry behind reality. The update needed is twofold: the facts must be current, and the document must be producible on demand. The record itself does not change shape for the occasion. For each type of prevention it holds what was given, the date it was given, and the next due date, and before check-in every one of those entries needs to be complete, legible and true.
Checking Each Entry the Way Check-In Will
Read the record as a receptionist will read it, quickly and without background knowledge. For flea treatment, can a stranger see what was given, the date it was given, and the next due date, without asking you anything? Repeat the test for worming as its own separate entry, because the two types of prevention run on their own facts and a combined line invites exactly the confusion check-in cannot pause to solve. Any entry missing one of its three facts should be repaired from a reliable source now, from your vet's own records or the paperwork from when the treatment was given, rather than reconstructed from memory at the kitchen table.
Currency is the second test. If the next due date on either entry has already passed, the record is telling you she is due, and that conversation belongs with your vet before the stay, not with the cattery on arrival day. The record invents no timing of its own: what she receives and when comes from your vet, who knows what was given previously. Your responsibility is narrower, to notice what the record shows, act on it in good time through the practice, and then write the new facts into the record the day they happen, so the document presented at check-in describes a cat whose prevention is genuinely current.
A Due Date That Falls During the Stay
Look ahead across the stay dates themselves. If a next due date lands while she is boarding, that fact needs an agreement before drop-off, not a hopeful note. Talk to the cattery about how they handle a treatment falling due mid-stay, speak to your vet for guidance on what she should receive, and write the agreed arrangement into her stay paperwork: who is responsible, on what basis, and how it will be recorded afterwards. Get the cattery's agreed terms confirmed in writing when you book, covering the stay dates, fees and this treatment arrangement, so the plan survives a change of staff between booking and arrival.
If the agreement is that a treatment will be given during the stay, the record must be updated when you collect her, with what was given, the date it was given, and the next due date entered from the cattery's confirmation, in the same three-part shape as every other entry. If the agreement is that nothing falls due in practice because your vet adjusted plans before the stay, the record will already show that, and check-in becomes a simple presentation rather than a negotiation.
Producible Means More Than Existing
A complete record that stays in a drawer at home fails the practical test, because the stay may involve a drop-off by a family member, a delayed return, or a question from the cattery mid-stay when you are hard to reach. Print a clean copy for the cattery to keep with her file, keep your own copy identical, and make sure the printed version is the current one, since an old printout beside a current digital record creates two competing truths. Check the copy for legibility as a stranger would: names of what was given written in full, dates unambiguous, and the due dates easy to find at a glance. Pet Passport within KinsLe keeps the current three-part record for flea treatment and worming together, so printing a check-in copy is a moment's work whenever a stay is booked.