Breeding

A button moves the litter forward one step; only the owner corrects a date.

• Statuses (1): Mated, Pregnancy confirmed, Whelped, Weaning, Closed. Confirmation is optional (from Mated, record whelping directly); before whelping, “Mark lost” makes it Lost.
• Rest during pregnancy: a confirmed litter puts the dam on rest — she leaves the plan and the team line-up, and her sheet says “No pulling — walks and free time recommended”; if the litter is lost, she comes back. At whelping, a return to work is suggested after 8 weeks (sheet, and a task “Possible return to work for … — to confirm”): nothing lifts the rest by itself, you confirm, postpone or extend it. Kennel setting, on by default: Settings › Kennel (website) or Manage › Kennel (phone), owner only. The suggested return shows on the sheet while the litter is whelped or weaning; the task stays until you tick it.
• Buttons (3): “Confirm (ultrasound)”, “Record whelping”, “Start weaning”, “Close”… stamp today's date; “Cancel confirmation” clears its date, not the mating date. At weaning, once every puppy has left (promoted, departed, died), a reminder suggests closing.
• “Edit dates” (2), owner: mating, whelping, optional ovulation (progesterone). The due date can't be edited: recomputed from ovulation (+ 63 days), otherwise mating.
• Whelping date corrected: changes the puppies' age and the birth of dogs already in the kennel; MushMate shows the gap in days and offers (box ticked) to carry it over, never silently. Care reminders on a fixed date are never shifted: check them.
• “Delete litter”, owner: only with no puppy at all (created by mistake), so as not to take weighings and care with it.

The Temperature block alerts below your kennel's whelping threshold (37.0 °C by default) near term, above 39.5 °C after.

• Entry (1): “+ Temperature”: °C, date, time, optional note; while the litter is active.
• Correction: “Correct” on each reading of the list (3), for anyone who can enter readings (owner, handler, vet): value, time and note, between 30 and 45 °C. The reading is replaced — the list and the chart keep only the corrected value, with no trace of the old one. A reading entered in the wrong litter is deleted for good: “Delete”, then “Confirm deletion” (website; on the phone, from the dam's logbook). The alert follows the latest reading: correcting or deleting it updates it.
• Curve (2): “whelp threshold”, “fever threshold”, “whelping day”, “Post-whelp zone (fever risk)” (7 days); list (3) of every reading.
• The whelping threshold is adjustable: Settings › Kennel (website) or Manage › Kennel (phone), owner only, from 36.5 to 37.8 °C. Vets place the drop around 37.1 °C.
• Before whelping, the alert stays quiet until near term (55 days after mating, 57 after ovulation if recorded, otherwise 8 days before the due date). Then in two steps: a reading under the threshold says “Drop to confirm — retake the temperature in 2 h”; if the reading before it, taken within 24 h, was also under the threshold: “Whelping imminent (~24 h)”. After, above 39.5 °C within 7 days: “Fever — possible infection, see the vet”. The last two readings decide (the last one alone for the fever); signals, not a diagnosis. No notification is sent: the alert is read in the app.

From whelping on, add the puppies, then weigh and care for each.

• Add (1), from whelping to weaning: name, sex, collar, order, coat, birth time and weight, nothing required on the web. “Edit puppy” fixes the record at any time, even a dead or departed puppy's.
• Photos: added from the mobile app (shot or picked, compressed); the web shows them without an add button.
• Weight: “+ Weigh”: grams, date, optional length in cm; a second weighing the same day replaces the first.
• Signals (last two weighings on different days, living puppy): loss → “Losing weight”; gain under 10 g a day → “Slow growth” (a newborn should gain ~10 g a day at minimum).
• Care: deworming, vaccine, microchip, vet check or note; “+ Care”, or “+ Care (whole litter)” (2) for a same-day deworming.
• Reminder (3): optional next reminder; pill “due” (within 7 days), “overdue” or “upcoming”; clearing the date turns it off. “History” (4): birth, weighings, care, death.

Four paths per puppy; “Hand over the logbook” sends a copy of its logbook.

• Add to kennel (1): full record in Dogs; breed type to choose, baseline weight pre-filled (last weighing, 1 kg by default), sex to confirm if missing. It stays on the litter, “In kennel”, with “→ logbook” and, after a race, its race record.
• Price / reserve, owner: price and/or reservation (buyer, contact, deposit); the puppy stays “Alive”, with a “Reserved” pill, until it departs. “Remove reservation” clears buyer, contact and deposit; the price stays.
• Departure, owner: date, reason (Sold, Given, Other), recipient (carried over from the reservation), price; status “Departed”. “Undo departure” (owner) makes it alive again: day, reason and recipient cleared, price kept.
• Mark died: date, optional cause. “Undo death” (owner, handler, vet) makes it alive again, date and cause cleared; weighings and care stay. A promotion (“Add to kennel”), on the other hand, can't be undone.
• Hand over the logbook (2), owner, living or departed puppy: a 30-day link, a single handover, sent by you (share or copy); MushMate writes to nobody. While waiting, the button becomes “Handover link”.
• The buyer sees what comes with the puppy and what never does; without MushMate, they create account and kennel on the way. They receive a COPY: identity and parents, vaccinations, dewormings, vet visits, weigh-ins, first photo, never your notes, the price, the deposit, their contact details or the inquiries.
• You keep your logbook and read “Logbook handed over on … to {kennel}”, nothing else; an unused link can be withdrawn (“Withdraw the link”). The status doesn't change: departure stays “Departure”.

Two settings, then a link you share yourself: never a directory.

• Two settings: “Public litters” in Settings (off by default; switched off, it closes every page), then “Publish” on the litter (owner; on mobile, a handler too). “Copy public link” gives the address.
• The page, no account: name, then “The parents” (1): photo, “self-declared, unverified” tag beside the registry number, race record, “View pedigree” if filled in. Photo and link: the kennel's own parents only; an outside sire has only a name.
• Then “Why this pairing” and each available puppy (2): photo, name, sex, coat, birth date, price if set, destination, description. Departed or promoted: “Not available”; dead: not listed; a reservation alone doesn't remove it.
• Texts entered elsewhere: “Presentation” (litter); “Edit puppy” (description, destination: sport team, working team, sporty family, active family); the dog's Pedigree section (FCI member club, AKC, RKF… never verified). Private notes are never published.
• Buttons (3): CSV of the puppies, PDF. Form (4): name, email, message. Below, the Mushmate invitation (“{kennel} presents this litter with Mushmate”, “What about your dogs?”) names only your kennel, already at the top, and disappears when printed.

Each message from the public page lands here; the owner moves it forward.

• Status (2), owner only: New, Replied, Reserved, Completed or Closed, free moves; newest first, counter on “Breeding”. “Reply” opens your mail app; “Puppy” (3) links a living puppy; an internal note keeps a call or a visit. “Reserve this puppy” (1), puppy linked: copies name and email into the reservation, inquiry Reserved.
• “Handover pack” (4), inquiry Reserved or Completed and linked to a puppy: identity; the buyer's country paperwork (eight researched countries, including France, Switzerland and Belgium, plus a generic template); health record; upcoming vaccination or deworming reminders; directives to hand the buyer (food, vet follow-up, socialising, growth, staying in touch). Confirm with your registry or vet: not legal advice.

The phone opens the litter screen; the internal note and pack stay on the web.

• Where: the “Litters” card on the Dogs screen, or Manage › Breeding and services › Litters; one active litter opens directly, otherwise an “Active” then “Archived” list (closed and lost included). Declare: Dogs screen › More menu › New litter, same fields.
• Cycle: the “Litter cycle” section offers the allowed steps, dated today by default (except “Undo the confirmation”); “Register whelping”, separate, takes today's date. Owner's menu: “Correct the dates…”, “Presentation” and, with no puppy, “Delete the litter…”.
• Temperature: “Record temperature” logs a reading right now, a banner flags the alert; the “Dam temperature” card shows the latest reading and “View the curve and the N readings” opens the curve (both thresholds named) then the list, newest first, offline too; each row of the list carries “Correct” (value, date and time, note; the reading is replaced) for anyone who can enter readings; absent from a closed or lost litter.
• Puppies: “Add a puppy” requires a collar and a birth weight (the rest: “Edit”); “Care for the whole litter” logs care in one go. Per puppy: “Weigh”, photo, “Promote to the pack” (add to kennel) and “More actions”: “Edit”, “Care history” (read, correct), “Add a care entry”, “Mark deceased”, “Departure”, “Reservation” (which opens with what is already recorded), “Hand over the logbook” (even from a closed litter; the buyer accepts in their browser) and, depending on the puppy's state, “Undo death”, “Undo departure” or “Remove reservation” (online only). Under its name, a word says where it stands: “Reserved”, “Deceased”, “Sold” or “Given”, “In the pack”.
• Publishing: “Publish to the public catalogue” (owner or handler) needs “Public litters” (Manage › Kennel). Once published, “Share the link” and “Copy the link” give the address, neither before nor with the setting off. Inquiries: tap “Published · …”; status changeable in one tap (owner), “Reply” opens the mail.