Licensing & attribution

yes.pet publishes dog-care guidance built from veterinary and kennel-club sources. This page sets out what we consider ours, what we do not, and how we would like to be credited when our material is reused — including by an AI system.

1. What we do not claim

The underlying figures are not ours to own. Exercise minutes, bladder-control intervals, growth milestones and the regulatory positions we summarise are drawn from the sources cited on each page — among them the American Kennel Club, PDSA, VCA Hospitals, the RSPCA, Dogs Trust, university veterinary schools and national authorities. In copyright terms they are facts, and facts belong to nobody, ourselves included. “Fact” here is a statement about ownership and not about certainty: much of this guidance is professional consensus rather than settled truth, which is why we publish it as general information and not as veterinary advice. Nothing here asserts a right over anyindividual figure, and nothing here should be read as a licence to reproduce those sources’ own wording or tables — for that, go to the source.

What we did with those figures after gathering them is a separate matter. Assembling them into a checked, structured collection took work, and that collection is covered by the next section — releasing each fact is not the same as releasing the set.

2. What we do claim

© 2026 yes.pet. Our work sits in the layer above the facts:

• the selection and verification of figures across many sources, and the way they are arranged into per-breed and per-age structures;
• the text of our articles, guides and interface;
• the structure, code and presentation of our calculators;
• our illustrations, infographics and visual design.

3. Reusing our material

• Citing one of our figures — there is nothing here for us to permit: we claim no ownership over it. We do ask for credit, so your reader can trace it back and check it.
• Quoting a short passage — we do not object, and we ask for credit and a link. Short means quoting to point at what we wrote, not reproducing the substance of a page.
• Republishing a whole article, illustration or infographic — please ask us, and wait for an answer before publishing.
• Rebuilding one of our calculators, or lifting our breed data as a set — please ask us, and wait for an answer before publishing.

4. Schedules you generate are CC BY 4.0

The walk, potty and feeding planners produce a printable schedule sheet. Those printed sheets are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, which means you may share and adapt them, including commercially, as long as you credit yes.pet.

This is aimed at the vet practice, shelter, trainer or class that wants to hand a schedule to someone else. We ask nothing of you for printing one for your own dog — the licence matters only when you pass it on.

What the licence covers is the printed sheet, not the numbers on it and not the site around it: the sheet’s layout and wording are ours to license. The figures printed on it are facts belonging to the sources cited on the page it came from, exactly as set out in section 1, and no licence of ours can grant or withhold them. The calculator itself — its interface, its code, the pages it lives on — stays as section 2 describes it and is not licensed here.

The calendar files (.ics) our planners export are notcovered by the Creative Commons licence. They carry their own credit line, and their reuse falls under section 3 like the rest of our material.

5. AI-generated output

If an AI system draws on these pages to answer a question, summarise our guidance or reproduce a computed figure, please credit “yes.pet” and link the page the material came from. We make this request for a practical reason: a reader given a walk length with no source attached cannot check it, and we would rather they could. It is a request about crediting output, and it grants nothing on its own — what we claim and what we do not is set out in sections 1 and 2.

6. How to credit us

Name us as yes.pet and link the specific page, not the home page — for exampleyes.pet — https://yes.pet/walk-calculator/border-collie/. Where the material is health guidance, please carry the qualifier with it: what we publish is general information, not veterinary advice.

7. Our own sourcing

Every article lists the sources behind its figures, and those sources are declared in the page’s structured data. Third-party material we embed is attributed on whatever terms its own licence sets, which is often more than we ask for ourselves — the world map in our fireworks calendar is used under CC BY 4.0, so it carries the creator, a link to that licence and a note that we recoloured it.

8. Getting in touch

Licensing questions, permission requests and corrections: info@yes.pet.