Create a Bonded Relationship
- Open a pet profile.
- Select Profile.
- Find Pet Family and click Link Pet.
- Select the companion pet and the Bonded relationship type.
- Save.
Pet Family also supports parents, offspring, siblings, and litter context. Use the relationship type that describes the actual connection.
Use Create Litter or Edit Litter in Pet Family to group littermates. A pet belongs to one litter at a time: adding it to another litter takes it out of its previous litter, along with its sibling and parent links there. A littermate in Deleted Pets keeps its place, so restoring it brings it back into its litter.
Review and Remove a Bond
Bonded companions appear in:
- Pet Family on the Profile tab.
- People & pairs in the right rail.
Select a companion to open its profile. Authorized Pet Managers can remove a relationship from Pet Family when it was linked incorrectly or no longer applies.
Public Information
The internal relationship itself is not a substitute for adopter-facing copy. Explain a required joint placement in the pet's public description or in a public custom field.
Foster and Adoption Placement
- Confirm that the foster or adopter can take the entire bonded group.
- Create a foster assignment or pending adopter relationship for each pet.
- Use notes or application context to record placement-specific discussion.
- Use the adopter's header-level Start adoption action when all bonded pets are pets of interest for the same adopter.
When adding an interested pet to an adopter, PawPlacer includes bonded companions in the selection flow.