Sightline · Quality of life
How is my pet
doing today?
A calm, daily way to see how your pet is coping when the goal has shifted from getting better to living well. Short check-ins become the Sightline Score, a single trajectory that shows the good days and the hard ones side by side.
For a pet with cancer, late-stage organ disease, or simply the frailties of old age, the question changes from whether they are recovering to how they are today. Sightline records that day by day, alongside the JOURNEYS and HHHHHMM quality-of-life frameworks, so the picture is something you can look at together rather than carry alone.
Sightline Score · 8 weeks · Cat · 13yr 4mo · daily check-in · comfort-focused subset
Good days and hard days.
When a pet is unwell or very old, the days stop being alike. A bright morning can give way to a flat afternoon, and from inside it, it is genuinely hard to tell whether this week is better or worse than the last. Memory is kind, and it tends to smooth the hard days over.
Caring for a pet near the end of their life is also a lonely kind of watchfulness. You are the one who sees them most, so the weight of noticing, and of deciding, falls to you, often with little to measure against and no easy way to share what you are seeing.
Sightline gives that watching a shape. A short daily check-in, scored the same way each time and plotted as a single line, so the direction of travel is visible, and so the people who love your pet can look at the same picture you do.
Built and signed by
Sightline is built by ConciergeVet, a UK veterinary practice run by Alastair and Claire Greenway. Both have spent years asking owners variations of "how has she been?" in the consult room, and watching how hard that question is to answer well from memory alone.
Who this is for
Four reasons owners track quality of life.
Cancer or a terminal diagnosis
Track comfort day by day, and tell the good days from the hard ones, when the aim is living well rather than getting better.
Late-stage organ disease
Watch for the small, steady shifts that say it may be time to change something, or to ask your vet a different question.
A frail or much older pet
Follow how an ageing pet is coping over weeks and months, including the changes that come with cognitive decline.
Hospice care at home
Keep a shared journal of comfort and dignity that family, and a vet, can follow without needing an account of their own.
How it works
A daily check-in. A score. A trajectory.
Each day, Sightline asks a short, comfort-focused set of questions tailored to your pet: most of it about the things that matter most near the end of life, such as pain and rest, appetite and hydration, mobility, toileting and hygiene, and whether the day held more ease than struggle. It takes under two minutes.
Those answers become the Sightline Score, on a 0-to-100 scale where lower is better, and the score is plotted as a trajectory. A single day is a data point, and any single day can mislead. A line across days and weeks is harder to argue with, and it is what tells you whether your pet is holding steady, having a run of better days, or slowly slipping.
Alongside the daily Score, two established quality-of-life frameworks are available when you want a fuller picture, and there is always the option to share everything with family or with a vet, so no one has to hold the whole thing in their head alone.
Quality-of-life frameworks
Two trusted scales, alongside the Score.
The daily Sightline Score gives you the trajectory. When you want a more considered read, two widely used quality-of-life scales sit beside it, each the work of a clinician who has spent years on this question.
JOURNEYS
Dr Katie Hilst
A structured quality-of-life scale covering the dimensions that matter most in palliative care, from mobility and appetite to the bond you share. Available weekly, it sits beside the daily Score as a fuller, considered read.
HHHHHMM · Pawspice
Dr Alice Villalobos
The Pawspice quality-of-life scale, weighing hurt, hunger, hydration, hygiene, happiness, mobility, and whether there are more good days than bad. Available on demand, it is a steadying way to take stock at any single point.
The Sightline Report
When you need to talk to your vet, whether about a change in treatment or a harder conversation, Sightline produces a short, dense PDF they can read in sixty seconds: the Score, the trajectory across recent days, the comfort domains behind today's number, any JOURNEYS or HHHHHMM scores you have recorded, and your own note. It turns a difficult, emotional update into a shared and factual one.
Vet-built and signed
Built for the conversations that matter most.
Sightline is built and signed by working vets. The daily check-in is drafted from the published veterinary literature on pain and quality of life, and the JOURNEYS and HHHHHMM frameworks are the work of the clinicians credited above. A clinician stands behind the methodology, which is published in full. Sightline supports the decisions you make with your vet; it does not make them for you.
Informed by published veterinary literature and established quality-of-life frameworks; the Sightline Score is not an externally validated diagnostic instrument; it does not replace your vet's judgement, least of all on end-of-life decisions.
The wider picture
Alongside Sightline.
PetsLikeMine
Sightline is the daily measurement and the record you can share. If you also want the company of others walking the same road, and somewhere to turn on the hardest days, PetsLikeMine is a place to live with it together.
PAWSCHECK
While your pet is still mobile, PAWSCHECK can add an objective read on how they are moving, from a short smartphone video reviewed by a vet. It sits alongside the comfort picture Sightline builds day to day.
Start when you are ready.
Free to use, with everything you need for hospice and end-of-life care included at no cost. No card needed. Your data stays yours, and you can stop at any time.