7 Days as a Pet Dear Diary Ending Guide

Dear Diary is one of the prestige collector endings in 7 Days as a Pet. You must gather every page of Marnie’s Diary scattered through the house, then finish the first week without dying out. It sits in S tier on the Endings Tier List beside Good Pet, Best Friends, and Pet Pile because the hunt adds exploration pressure on top of chores, hearts, and Not Marnie.

This page is the dedicated route. Full trigger catalog: All Endings. Sitter identity: Marnie and Not Marnie. Map expansion that unlocked more page spots: Update 4.

What Dear Diary actually requires

1. Explore carefully and collect every diary page you can find.
2. Keep the run alive through Days 1–7 (hearts, chores, impostor checks).
3. Finish the first week after the set is complete.

Pages are not a separate “museum mode.” They live inside a normal survival week. If you die with an incomplete set, you restart the hunt. If you finish the week without every page, you do not get Dear Diary — you may still land Okay Pet or Good Pet depending on how clean the week was.

No promo code unlocks pages. The Codes Hub stays empty; Favorite the experience for the free gift only.

Dear Diary page hunt reference

Where pages tend to spawn

Community routes treat diary pages as house-wide collectibles, not a single closet prop. Sweep these zones every day you can spare a minute:

Attic (Update 3+)

Vertical shelves, crates, and lamp-adjacent corners hide pages cats reach easily. Bring a high-jump pet when you dedicate a night to attic sweeps (Cat vs Dog). Pair attic diary work with Day 6 lamp practice so the vertical muscle memory pays twice.

Main rooms

Living room, kitchen counters, hallway shelves, bedroom furniture, and laundry nooks. Check behind sofa lines, under table edges, and near the chore board path you already walk for food, water, scratch, sunbeam, litter, and the evening call (Daily Tasks).

Garage and Yard (Update 4+)

After Garage & Yard opened, collectors report additional page opportunities outdoors and in garage props. Treat Update 4 open-area runs as a Dear Diary upgrade: one week can now cover attic + main house + garage + yard instead of feeling permanently gated. Patch context: Update 4 and the Updates Hub.

Use the House Map when you want room landmarks while you hunt. Controls for interact prompts stay on Controls and Getting Started.

Survival rules while you collect

Dear Diary fails if the week fails. Keep the survival spine intact:

• Inspect every meal; tip cursed bowls unless you are intentionally farming Mystery Meat.
• Complete the six daily tasks when you still want heart recovery from tasks + sleep.
• Scratch-test every sitter — real Marnie sneezes; distorted face or no sneeze means Not Marnie.
• Ignore the 3AM treat bag on diary weeks.
• On Day 6, finish lamps before long attic page detours in the dark.
• On Day 7, treat toilets as traps — Toilet Trained / Toilet Sommelier are easy to trigger by accident.

Day-by-day hazard timing: Survive the Week.

Pair the hunt with sneeze-verified real Marnie

Diary pages are Marnie’s story objects. Collecting them while sleeping on the wrong lap still risks Wrong Lap and can erase a prestige week. Habit stack:

1. Enter a room for a page sweep.
2. If a sitter is present, scratch first.
3. Sneeze = continue affection / safe sleep plans.
4. No sneeze = Meow/hiss, create space, then resume the page search.

Best Friends (sleep on real Marnie every night after Day 3) can layer with Dear Diary if you already verify every night — but do not force both until sneeze tests are automatic. Character nuance: Marnie.

Suggested week plan for Dear Diary

Days 1–2: Learn board routes and mark page spots without greed. Survive first.
Days 3–5: Aggressive sweeps of attic + main rooms after chores. Begin Best Friends sleeps only if identity checks are solid.
Update 4 days: Add garage/yard loops once outdoor doors are available in the run.
Day 6: Lamps first, diary second.
Day 7: Finish any missing pages early, then play toilet-safe until the week clears.

If a page is missing at the finale, do not panic-Meow into Noise Complaint or walk out the front door for Great Escape — those endings are farmable later on throwaway runs.

Multiplayer: share finds, do not grief

Co-op (up to 18 players) helps Dear Diary when teammates call page locations in chat. Rules that keep lobbies friendly:

• Share finds; do not hide pages to “gatekeep” the ending.
• Split floors: one cat attic, one dog yard/garage, one floater on main rooms.
• Agree whether tonight is also a Pet Pile attempt so sleep spots do not conflict.
• Ban random Meow spam unless Noise Complaint is the stated goal.
• Avoid teleport scripts that yank pets mid-sweep — see Scripts Hub caution.

Pet Pile and Dear Diary both want coordination; call the primary ending before nightfall.

How Dear Diary compares to sibling S-tier endings

Ending	Extra demand beyond surviving
Good Pet	Zero-mistake chore perfection
Best Friends	Nightly real-Marnie sleeps after Day 3
Pet Pile	Full lobby same sleep spot
Dear Diary	Complete diary page set + finish week

Farm C- and B-tier gag endings first for momentum, then schedule Dear Diary when exploration no longer panics you. Priority rationale: Endings Tier List. Trigger text for every confirmed ending: All Endings.

Checklist before you queue a diary week

• Favorite claimed; no fake codes expected (Codes Hub).
• Cat selected if attic pages dominate your missing list.
• Friends briefed if sharing finds.
• Notepad or mental tally of rooms already cleared.
• Willingness to abort comedy props (dryer, microwave foil, max stove) until the set is done.
• Update 4 areas unlocked in your current patch so garage/yard pages are reachable.

Related reading

• Beginner loop: Getting Started
• Room landmarks: House Map
• Input reference: Controls
• Hub overview: Guides Hub
• Patch doors: Update 4

Dear Diary rewards patience more than speed. Sweep the attic, main rooms, garage, and yard; sneeze-verify every Marnie; finish the first week with the full page set. That is the whole ending — and it is why collectors treat it like prestige content instead of a one-button gag.