A musher who breeds wrote to us: they wanted to show the parents in photos, say why this pairing matters for mushing, describe each puppy and the life they see for it, and give the pedigree link to anyone who has one. A litter's public page only showed names, a registry number and race records. It's done.
What changes for you
- The parents in photos. The public page opens on "The parents": the dam and sire with their profile photo, their registry, their race record, and a "View pedigree" link if you filled it in.
- Why this pairing. On the litter, "Presentation" opens a free text. The empty field suggests the themes: weight, height, build, conformation, racing gait, recovery, endurance. It appears under the parents.
- What each puppy promises. "Edit puppy" now carries a description (conformation, temperament) and a destination: sport team, working team, sporty family, active family — or "to be decided".
- The pedigree link. On a dog's page, Pedigree section: the address of its record in its stud book — an FCI member club, the AKC, the RKF, or any other.
- All of it can be entered on the website and on the phone. On the phone, "Presentation" is in the litter owner's menu.
What buyers see — and what they never see
None of this is visible until the litter is published: it still takes both switches, "Public litters" in the kennel settings, then "Publish" on the litter.
Once published, a visitor without an account sees the photos and links of the parents from your kennel, your text, and the destination and description of each puppy still available.
They never see: your private litter or puppy notes (they stay apart, in another field), a reserving buyer's name or contact, a deposit, the description of a puppy that has already left — and neither the photo nor the link of a sire from another kennel.
What it doesn't do
- No pedigree is verified. The link is the one you give; the page keeps the "unverified" tag. Stud books offer no access we could query.
- No measurement sheets — height at the withers, chest girth, ideal weight. It's a text: every musher looks at their dogs their own way, and a form with boxes would have decided for you what matters.
- One destination per puppy. If you're unsure, "to be decided" is an answer.
- No pedigree link per puppy: a puppy is rarely registered when it is looking for its family.
The choices made against the obvious
- Your notes stay private, even if they already describe your puppies. Publishing them would have been quickest, but you wrote them believing they were private; "shy puppy, keep an eye on him" is not a presentation sentence. Two fields, two audiences.
- A puppy's description is entered when correcting it, not at birth. At birth there is nothing to describe; one more field at whelping would only have been an empty box.
- A sire from another kennel gets neither photo nor link, even if it is in the app: its kennel never agreed to appear on your page. Mention it in your text.
http://links are accepted. Several stud books don't havehttpsyet; refusing them would have left you with nothing to put.