Until now, a sold puppy left with a sheet of paper: the printed handover pack. Its logbook — its vaccinations, dewormings, weigh-ins since birth — stayed with you, and the buyer started over by hand. When that buyer is a musher, their dog can now arrive in their MushMate with its logbook.
A link you send
On the puppy's row, in the litter, Hand over the logbook (the kennel's owner, on the web as on the phone, in the puppy's menu). The dialog says what goes and what never does; Create the link gives an address, valid for 30 days, for a single handover. You share it — WhatsApp, a text, an email, whatever you already use with that buyer — or you copy it.
The buyer opens the link in their browser. They read the puppy's name, your kennel, and what comes with it, as numbers: "2 vaccinations, 3 dewormings, 1 vet visit, 6 weigh-ins, the photo". If they don't have MushMate, they create their account and kennel on the way, and come back to the link. They then choose the dog's name, its type, its baseline weight — pre-filled from the dam's type and the last weigh-in — and receive it.
What each side sees
The buyer receives, in their kennel, a new dog: its date of birth, microchip, coat, breed, its dam and sire, its vaccinations, dewormings and vet visits, its weigh-ins in kilos on their dates, and its first photo as the portrait.
You, on the puppy's row, then read "Logbook handed over on October 12, 2026 to Lakeside Kennel" — the date, and the name of the kennel that received it. Nothing else: not its outings, not its weight, not its life there.
What never goes: your notes on the puppy, its care entries marked "note", the price, the deposit, the name and contact you had reserved it for, the inquiries received through the litter's public page. Before accepting, the buyer only sees numbers, by the way: not the detail of a single care entry.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't move the puppy. It's a copy: you keep your logbook, and the litter's history stays whole. Its departure is still recorded with "Departure".
- It doesn't keep the two logbooks in step. The copy is made on the day of the handover. A vaccination you add afterwards stays with you; the buyer records it on their side.
- It writes to nobody. MushMate doesn't email the link: you pass it on, and your buyer's address stays with you.
- It can't be accepted from the phone app. The link opens in the browser; the dog then reaches the buyer's phone at the next sync.
- It doesn't hand over an adult dog. Only a puppy from a litter kept in MushMate has a puppy logbook to hand over.
The choices we made
- A copy, not a transfer. You remain the breeder: your litters, your growth curves and the care you recorded belong to you. A transfer would have torn them out of the litter.
- The link works once, and can be withdrawn. It's a key: whoever holds it can receive the puppy. A link forwarded by mistake is withdrawn in one gesture ("Withdraw the link"), creating another withdraws the previous one, and a used link no longer opens. Only the kennel's owner sees it: a handler or vet of the kennel doesn't read the code.
- The vaccination arrives as "other", with your label. Your puppy logbook records a vaccination as free text ("DHPPi"); rather than guess a category, the copy keeps your words, which the buyer can refine.
- The baseline weight is the last weigh-in. It's a puppy's: the buyer will change it once the dog has grown, and the page tells them so.