7 Days as a Pet All Six Daily Tasks Explained

Every day in 7 Days as a Pet revolves around the chore board. Clear all six daily tasks, manage risk while doing them, then sleep — that loop is how you keep three hearts healthy and steer toward Good Pet or Okay Pet. This guide deep-dives each chore, common debuffs, and the recovery rule so you can stop dying to bowls and bathrooms.

New to controls? Skim Getting Started first. For day-by-day hazard timing, use Survive the Week.

The six tasks at a glance

1. Eat food — kitchen bowl; inspect first
2. Drink water — legitimate water dish
3. Scratch post — designated post (separate from Marnie sneeze scratches)
4. Sunbeam nap — lie in the marked sun patch long enough to credit
5. Litter box — standard box interaction
6. Evening call — living-room phone call to finish the social chore

Miss any one and you jeopardize the “complete all tasks + sleep → recover 1 heart” rule. That recovery is often the difference between surviving a Not Marnie scratch and getting run over at zero hearts.

Heart recovery and failure states

• 3 hearts maximum.
• Hazards and story fails remove hearts.
• All tasks done + sleep can restore 1 heart.
• 0 hearts → run over / run failed.

Plan chores before night events. If you are at 1 heart with two chores left and Not Marnie active, finish chores in safe rooms first, then deal with the impostor using tips from Not Marnie.

Task 1 — Eat food (highest lethality)

Always inspect before you eat. Threat examples players report:

• Wrong Food (story item for Mystery Meat if eaten twice instead of tipping)
• Eyes in the bowl
• Brick or other solid “food” kills

Safe habit: inspect → eat only if clean → otherwise tip/avoid. Skipping dinner intentionally across two days routes toward Vet Visit — useful for collectors, terrible for survival weeks. Chicken Heist (whole fridge chicken) is a separate greed ending; do not confuse it with normal bowl credit.

Co-op note: if another pet tips your bowl mid-inspect, re-check. Do not greed eat during a chase.

Task 2 — Drink water

Use the normal water dish. Drinking from the toilet is Toilet Sommelier territory and can tank a clean run. Dehydration debuffs make later platforming (attic ladders, yard fences after Update 4) clumsier — hydrate early.

Task 3 — Scratch post

Interact with the scratching post until the board ticks. This is not the same as scratching Marnie for the sneeze test, though you can do both in one afternoon. Cats often reach awkwardly placed posts faster; dogs may path around furniture — pick kits via Cat vs Dog.

Task 4 — Sunbeam nap

Enter the sunbeam and wait for the nap credit. Leaving early wastes the channel. Do not confuse sunbeam naps with dryer naps (Fluff Cycle), closet dots (Follow The Dot), or pretend sleep practice from Day 0. Sunbeam is the board task; other sleep spots are ending tools.

Task 5 — Litter box

Use the litter box once per day for credit. “Creative” bathroom play unlocks comedy endings: Toilet Trained (use toilet then flush), Bath Time (bathtub jump or eat poop until vomit), and related unconfirmed names. Keep Day 1–5 litter normal if you want Good Pet.

Task 6 — Evening call

Find the living-room phone and complete the evening call interaction. Players who clear five chores then forget the phone lose heart recovery at sleep. In busy co-op lobbies, call early before emote spam blocks the prompt.

Suggested daily route (efficient, safe)

1. Board check
2. Water
3. Inspect + eat
4. Scratch post
5. Litter
6. Sunbeam
7. Optional Marnie sneeze test
8. Evening call
9. Final board verify
10. Safe sleep (real Marnie lap only if you are on a Best Friends plan after Day 3)

Adjust for Day 6 lamps and Day 7 toilets — those override pure efficiency. See Survive the Week.

Debuffs and soft penalties

While exact UI names vary by patch, expect hunger, thirst, hygiene, and stress-like penalties when chores slip. Practical effects:

• Slower stamina for dog sprint lines
• Messier camera during Not Marnie confrontations
• Higher odds you accept a bad bowl under pressure
• Missed sleep recovery cascading into Day 6 hunt fails

Treat unfinished boards as an emergency, not flavor.

Intentional chore fails for endings

Goal	Chore abuse
Mystery Meat	Eat Wrong Food twice (do not tip)
Vet Visit	Skip dinner two days in a row
Toilet Sommelier	Drink toilet water
Toilet Trained	Use toilet + flush
Bath Time	Bathtub jump or vomit route
Chicken Heist	Eat whole fridge chicken
Noise Complaint	Meow spam (not a board task, but timing overlaps evenings)
This Is Fine	Max stove burners

Full trigger list: All Endings. Priority order: Endings Tier List.

Multiplayer chore etiquette

• Do not tip every bowl “for fun” in a Good Pet lobby.
• Call out Wrong Food so teammates do not chain Mystery Meat accidentally.
• Share lamp duty on Day 6 after chores.
• Autofarm scripts desync boards — read Survival Helper risks before enabling Auto Task.

Tie-ins to hearts, nights, and updates

Chores feed heart recovery; heart recovery feeds night survival; night survival feeds ending choice at week’s end. Update 3’s attic and Update 4’s garage/yard add optional detours — clear the six basics before sightseeing props for Dear Diary or comedy endings (Update 4).

Master the board and the house gets fair. Ignore the board and even perfect Meow timing will not save a zero-heart sprint to the street.