Psyllium had been running for the whole pack since 12 October, and the home page said nothing about it. It did, however, show “1 supplement to check” for spirulina, which only starts on 1 November. That was not an oversight: “Handle now” only lists dated actions (start, stop, restock). A supplement that is running asks for nothing. But it should be visible. And to know who gets what until when, you had to open the dogs' pages one by one.
What changes
One supplements sheet for the whole kennel. On the Dogs page, a “Supplements” button next to “Rations” opens “Kennel supplements”. Every supplement gets its own lane on a 12-month calendar, starting on the 1st of the month. You can switch to 6 or 3 months, with a mark for every month. Each lane gives the name, who gets it (“Whole kennel”, “Team Sprint”, or the dogs) and the dosage. The bar reads by its shape:
- solid: ongoing, to the right edge, “→”;
- outlined: a season, from start to end;
- dashed: a suggested relaunch, which nothing creates until you prepare it on the dog's page;
- muted: a supplement that ended this month, which says “ended on …”.
A line marks today across every lane. A ◆ “Restock around …” sits under an ongoing supplement whose stock is recorded. At the top, a summary: “2 running · 1 upcoming · 1 suggested”.
Clicking a lane opens the page of the first dog it concerns, Supplements section. That is where you edit, stop or record a restock, as before.
The “By dog” view. The same content, one active dog per row: what it gets today, and what is coming up for it. An empty cell shows “—”.
“To look at”. A supplement that is still running but no longer reaches any dog in the kennel (the dog has left, the team was emptied) is not counted as “running”. It does not disappear either: a line under the calendar names it.
The poster. “Print” produces an A4 landscape sheet to pin up in the feed room: 12 months, the month rail repeated on every sheet, as many sheets as needed. Everything reads without colour, by the shape of the bar and by the word, so a black-and-white photocopy keeps it all.
The home page. In the band under “Handle now”, next to “Care up to date” and “No chores”, a neutral pill says “2 supplements running”. It leads to the supplements sheet. On the phone, a calm “2 supplements running” row in “Today” names the first two and leads to the same sheet, which also opens from “See all the kennel's supplements” in the Supplements section of a dog's page.
What others see
Kennel members see the same sheet, the same poster and the same pill, without any editing button: the sheet reads for every role. Nobody outside the kennel sees anything: there is no public link, and the poster is something you print yourself.
What the sheet does not do
This is not “not yet”: these are choices.
- It creates and changes nothing. It is read and printed. Adding, editing or stopping a supplement and recording a restock stay on the dog's page, for the owner.
- It warns you of nothing. No reminder, no notification, no email. The dated reminders remain those of “N supplements to check”.
- It only shows supplements. Medications and veterinary treatments stay in the Health section and on the ration poster.
- It does not say what the dog actually received. A “running” supplement is a dated intention, not an intake record: nothing logs “given this morning”.
- It is not shared outside the kennel.
The day comes from the server's clock on the website and from the phone's in the app: close to midnight, for a musher in another time zone, a supplement can start a day earlier on the website.
Choices against the obvious
An ongoing supplement counts as “running”. With no end date, it could have passed for “background”, and so invisible. But a dog on glucosamine all year does get something today. It counts.
Not in the alerts. The pill enters neither “Handle now” nor its orange count. A running supplement asks for no action: if it counted, the home page would announce “1 point to handle” every day of the course, and you would learn to stop reading that count. It is said alongside, in the neutral colour of states.
No extra tab. A dog's page already has five tabs, and “Kennel life” holds the ration, supplements, gear and housing. The supplements sheet looks at the whole pack: it sits next to the ration sheet, not inside one dog's page.
The poster does not show suggested relaunches. On screen, a dashed relaunch reminds you a season is coming back. On the wall, it would read as a supplement to give. A poster only shows what has been decided.