Breathing and heat limits lead the list
A French Bulldog's emergency sheet starts with air, because her short muzzle means excitement, heat, and stress all cost her more than they cost most dogs. Tell helpers what her breathing sounds like on a normal evening, then state the red lines without softening them: breathing that turns loud and laboured while she rests, a tongue or gums losing their pink colour, heavy drooling with panic, or an inability to settle are reasons to cool her, calm her, and contact a vet immediately.
Write her heat rules just as plainly. She is never walked in the heat of the day, never played with until she pants hard, never left in a car, conservatory, or sunlit room, and never allowed to become wildly excited by visitors for long stretches. A neighbour who thinks a run around the garden is a treat is, for a French Bulldog, creating the emergency they were asked to prevent. Her exercise pattern is short, gentle outings and rest, and helpers need that stated as a rule, not a preference.
Meals, routine, and contacts written for a stranger
Record her food precisely — what it is, the measured amount, and the times — plus the standing instruction that extra food and rich scraps are off the table, because a French Bulldog who gulps and begs will otherwise be fed by every kind person in the house and end the night regurgitating. Note any routine your vet has set, in plain words with times, and how completion is marked so it is never doubled by two helpers.
Put your vet's name, phone number, and address on the same page as an emergency out-of-hours option, your own number, and a second family contact. State clearly that helpers may take her to the vet in an emergency and how you will settle costs. Add her microchip number.
Safe handling for a front-heavy little dog
Show helpers how to handle your French Bulldog before they ever need to, because her build punishes guesswork. She is carried supported under chest and hindquarters together, never lifted by the front legs or scruff, and she is walked on her harness rather than by pressure around her throat. Stairs should be limited and supervised, jumping from sofas or beds discouraged, and rough play with bigger dogs stopped early — her back and neck are not built for it, and a helper who knows this prevents the injury rather than reporting it.
Add her personal operating instructions: how she signals a toilet need, where she usually goes, the cue words she knows, what unsettles her, and what settles her — a particular blanket, a quiet room, a person's lap.
The house details that make help actually work
Short-notice care collapses on small logistics, so finish the sheet with the map of daily life: entry arrangements, where her food, harness, bowls, bedding, and cleaning basics live, which rooms she may use, and which doors and gates stay shut. Note the times her day runs on — meals, toilet trips, bedtime — because a French Bulldog kept to her own rhythm stays calmer and breathes easier than one improvising in a strange routine.
Keep the details shared, current, and identical for everyone
The failure mode in family emergencies is version drift: your sister has last year's feeding note, the neighbour has a screenshot of an older routine, and nobody holds the vet's new number. One shared, updated record ends that, and it should be reviewed whenever her food, routine, or vet changes. KinsLe's Family Sharing keeps your French Bulldog's profile and care information in front of the family members and helpers you choose, so the neighbour stepping in at short notice reads exactly the same current details as you would yourself.