Answers for breeders
One page per question, each answering it in the first sentence. These are about the job rather than about the software: what belongs in a go home packet, how to chart a litter's weights, what a vaccination record has to show, and what a hand-typed pedigree may and may not be called.
Every one of them ends at the same place: the puppy packet generator, which turns the litter you enter once into a finished packet for each puppy — and costs nothing until you export. Three finished sample packets are there to open and print if you would rather see one than read about it. If the question you have is not here, ask it — that is how the list grows. For questions about the tool itself, the FAQ and troubleshooting page is grouped by where you are when you get stuck.
What should you put in a puppy go home packet?
A puppy go home packet should contain the puppy’s profile and photo, its pedigree, its weight record, its vaccination and worming record, its microchip number and how to transfer it, the sire and dam’s health test results, a socialization record, your feeding plan, and your own contact details. Everything on that list is a record of something you did or something you know — which is why a breeder can assemble the whole packet without writing a contract or giving veterinary advice.
Is a puppy packet template worth buying, or is there something better?
A fillable puppy packet template is a good buy if you have one or two puppies, and a poor one if you have a litter — because the template is filled in once per puppy, so a litter of eight means typing the same pedigree, feeding plan and worming dates eight times. The work a template cannot remove is the retyping, and that is most of the work.
How do breeders chart puppy weights for a whole litter?
Weigh the whole litter in one sitting, record the weights as a grid with the dates down the side and the puppies across the top, and plot each puppy’s line against the litter’s range so an outlier is visible at a glance. A column of numbers tells you what a puppy weighed; a chart tells you which puppy stopped gaining, which is the reason to keep the record at all.
What should a breeder’s puppy vaccination record show?
A vaccination record that is useful to the new family’s vet shows, for every treatment: the date, what was given, the product name, the lot or serial number, and who administered it. Record what was done and leave what is due next to the vet — a breeder-printed schedule of future doses is advice, and it is the one page that can turn a keepsake folder into a liability.
How do you put a dog pedigree chart in a puppy packet?
Type the ancestors once, three or four generations back, and print the chart as part of each puppy’s packet, clearly labelled as recorded by the breeder. Three generations fits comfortably on a page and is what most families want; four is worth it when the names carry titles or health results that buyers recognise.
Should a breeder send a socialization record home with the puppy?
Yes, and it is the most undervalued page in the packet. A dated record of what a puppy has already met — surfaces, sounds, people, car rides, crate nights, the first bath, nail trims — tells the new family what has been done and, by omission, what has not, which is the most useful handover a breeder can give a puppy going into a critical socialization window.
What goes in a puppy pack in the UK?
A UK puppy pack carries the microchipping details and the transfer of keepership, the record of vaccinations and worming, the puppy’s date of birth, description and any health results for the puppy and for the sire and dam, breed-specific care information, and the breeder’s contact details — plus the contract of sale, which is exchanged separately from the keepsake folder. "Puppy pack" and "puppy go home packet" describe the same set of documents on either side of the Atlantic.
What records should a breeder keep for their own files?
Keep one record per litter holding the parents, the whelp date, every puppy with its identifying marks and microchip number, the complete weighing grid, every health and worming event with the puppies it applied to, the socialization log, and which family each puppy went to. It is a different document from the packets you send home, because it is the only one allowed to contain all the puppies and all the buyers at once.
What microchip paperwork should go home with a puppy?
Send the microchip number, the manufacturer or database it is registered with, and a plain explanation of how the registration is transferred into the new owner’s name — including anything they must do themselves and by when. The number alone is not enough: a chip registered to a breeder who has moved house is a chip that leads nowhere.