Cat profiles and multiple cats
Every reading and dose in SugarPaws belongs to one cat profile: a name, an optional photo, and a target glucose range (defaults 80–180 mg/dL, i.e. 4.4–10.0 mmol/L). Edit the active cat’s profile from Settings › Cat Profile (the row with the photo, Tap to edit profile). Add, switch and delete cats from Manage Cats — reached from that same Settings section or from the cat switcher bar. There is always at least one cat; you cannot delete the last one.
Editing a profile
Section titled “Editing a profile”Cat Profile is a sheet with Cancel and Save:
| Field | Rules |
|---|---|
| Cat Name | Required — Save is disabled while it is empty. Appears in the header strip, the switcher, the CSV Cat column and on the PDF report. |
| Cat Photo — Add Photo / Change Photo | Optional. Picking one opens Position Photo (Drag to reposition, pinch or use the slider to zoom); the circle you frame is saved as a small square image inside the app’s own database, not as a link to your photo library. Every avatar in the app is that circle. |
| Target Glucose Range (mg/dL or mmol/L) — Min – Max | Shown and typed in your current unit, stored in mg/dL. Must satisfy the rules below. |
Save is enabled only when something changed and the input is valid. The range rules, with the message shown under the fields:
| Rule | Message (mg/dL / mmol/L) |
|---|---|
| Both fields hold a number | Enter a number for both the minimum and the maximum. |
| Minimum ≥ 20 mg/dL | The minimum must be at least 20 mg/dL. / …1.1 mmol/L. |
| Maximum ≤ 999 mg/dL | The maximum can’t be above 999 mg/dL. / …55.5 mmol/L. |
| Maximum > minimum | The maximum must be higher than the minimum. |
Those bounds are simply the values the app can record a reading in — a target you could never log against is not useful. They make no clinical claim; the range itself is whatever your vet gave you.
The footer under the range explains what it is for: The target glucose range helps visualize when readings are within the desired range in charts. It drives the dashed lines on the charts, the colours and arrows in History, the Readings in Range tile, and the vs target column and colour key on the PDF report.
Adding a cat
Section titled “Adding a cat”Manage Cats › Add New Cat opens a form: Cat’s Name (required), Add Photo, and a Target Glucose Range with Minimum and Maximum fields whose placeholders are the defaults in your unit (80 and 180 mg/dL). Leave a target field blank and the default is used. Save creates the profile and makes it the active cat. If a save fails the sheet stays open with an alert (Couldn’t Create Profile), so nothing half-made is left behind.
Switching cats
Section titled “Switching cats”As soon as you have two or more profiles, a cat switcher bar appears across the top of every tab: the active cat’s photo (or a blue cat icon), its name and a chevron. Tap it for a menu listing every cat with a tick on the active one, and a Manage Cats entry. Picking a cat makes it active everywhere at once — Add, History, Charts and Settings all follow — and the choice is remembered across launches. With one profile the bar is absent.
Manage Cats (title Manage Cats, Done to close) lists each cat with its photo, name and Target: 80–180 mg/dL, with a blue tick on the active one; tapping another cat switches to it and closes the sheet.
What is per-cat and what is shared
Section titled “What is per-cat and what is shared”| Per cat | Shared by all cats |
|---|---|
| Name, photo, target range | Glucose unit |
| Every glucose reading and insulin dose | Insulin type (and custom name) — the type stamped on a dose is whatever is selected when you log it, for any cat |
| The last-reading / last-dose strip, History, Charts, the PDF report | Reminders and their times — there is one schedule, not one per cat |
| The CSV export when This cat is selected | Appearance, default chart range, disclaimer setting |
If two cats are on different insulins, change Settings › Insulin Type before logging each one; the recorded type is what the activity curve uses.
Deleting a cat
Section titled “Deleting a cat”In Manage Cats, swipe a cat’s row left and tap Delete — the action is offered only while you have more than one profile (with one, the footer reads You need at least one cat profile). An alert confirms: Delete Cat? This will permanently delete Name and all associated glucose and insulin data. Deleting is immediate and has no Undo: the profile and every reading and dose attached to it are removed. If you delete the active cat, the app switches to another. Export a CSV first if you might want the data back.