Your dogs

On the website, search, filters, sort and views find a dog in a big pack.

• Search by name. List view: filter by team (“All”, each team, “No team”) and, under “Filters”, by age (Puppy, Yearling, Adult, Senior), by reproductive status (Intact, Neutered, Unknown) and by usual position (Lead, Swing, Team, Wheel, Not set) — each group only shows when the kennel has at least two values. Sort: name, season or all-time distance, hours, age, weight.
• State band (training or mixed): Ready, Tired — rest advised, No outing in 14 days (no training session, race or other activity for two weeks), Resting, Not assessed yet. One click filters, a second click clears the filter.
• “To re-score (N)”: a button while any body-condition scores (BCS) are overdue — never a pregnant female's (her score isn't asked for during pregnancy).
• Other views, in place of the grid: Rig view (a chosen team's rig templates, read-only; on the phone, Manage › Resources › Rig templates lists them and, for the owner and handlers, prepares them), Load view (scatter plot: load against the share of plan done) and Summary view (table, one row per dog: load, recent km, gap, rest, why) — the last two for training or mixed kennels.

On the phone: a sentence counts the ready dogs, then each dog carries a state word — as a list, or as faces if you prefer.

• After the sentence: “To check”, “Ready”, “The others”.
• “View: …”, in the “⋯” menu of the header: how the dogs are shown, and the choice stays on that phone. List (the default): one row per dog — photo (or initials), state word with its cause, form and counter on the right. Large faces: the former display, three cards per row. Small faces: four per row, the word without the form number or the counter. To check first: dogs to check as rows, the others as badges — their word is the group title (“Ready · 15”). The same sheet also opens Load and Summary, and sets the counter.
• Ring: today's form, 0 to 100 at the bottom of the ring — green from 67, ochre from 34 to 66, red below. No recorded session, no ring. “The number under each photo”, in “⋯”, explains that number: the dog's freshness out of 100, where 50 = neither fresh nor tired (50 + 2 × form balance, capped between 0 and 100). A resting dog can wear a green one (fresh because it is resting): the state word says whether it goes.
• “Count in km | hours”, in the “View” sheet: what each dog counts, over the season (or all-time with no season running). The choice stays on that phone.
• Load and Summary, in the “View” sheet (training or mixed kennel): Load shows the "Load and plan, dog by dog" scatter — a dog enters it only with 28 days of load and a plan week, otherwise it is counted —, its list reading, the load per dog since the season started and team form; Summary, one row per dog (its number, its reason in one line), which opens on everything else: last computation, km over 7 and 28 days against the median, runs, gap, rest. Sort by load, name, km, runs or gap, ascending or descending. Both views read online; offline, the screen says so.
• Put a dog on rest without waiting for a run review: “Put on rest” on its page, or a long-press on its row or face (a sheet offers the same action). The rest has no end date; “End rest”, in the same places, puts the dog back in line-ups from today. Kennel owner and handlers only; not offered for a dog already held back by its care.

Up to four dogs side by side, in colour, over the rest of the pack in grey.

• Where: the “Compare” tab of the Kennel section; on the phone, the Dogs screen's “⋯” menu.
• What: weight (puppy weigh-ins included), body condition, chronic load or km per month, by age (“at 18 months”) or by date.
• Ranking at the reference (age or date set with the slider): for each dog, the value measured, estimated between two close measurements, or missing — and why. Nothing invented: no weigh-in at that age, “no measurement”.
• “Former dogs” adds loaned-out or former dogs. Chronic load only goes back 12 months and is read online on the phone.
• First year enlarged (weight and body condition, by age): it takes half of the axis; “Room for the first year” sets it, far left is the linear axis.
• Spay / neuter: a band in the dog's colour at the recorded month; below, the weight 3 months before and 6 months after. No change shown under 1 year, no conclusion drawn.

To choose the dogs for a start: each dog's place on the line, how far it ran in each place, and what happened to it.

• Where: the “Positions on the line” tab of the Kennel section, and the “Position on the line” section of a record's Training tab; on the phone, the Dogs screen's “⋯” menu, and the “Position on the line” row of the record's Training tab. Absent from a breeding-only kennel.
• What: over 4 weeks, the season or chosen dates, each dog's main place in words (“In lead · 8 runs out of 10”), its distance in each place, its trend; each run and how the team was set up (at the start, during, after); dogs dropped or moved back on the way, flagged or injured after, counted at the place they held — counts and rates per 100 km, never below 100 km, never a verdict.
• On the phone the screen is drawn: at the top, the line seen from above (lead at the top, sled at the bottom, each dog's dot as big as the km it ran in that place; tap a place for its numbers); then one bar per dog, all its distance cut by place. Tap a dog: the strip of its runs, one square per run, tinted with the place it held, split if it changed place, stopped at the km if it was dropped. Tap a run: its team, one column per place, replayed at the km of each change (“At the start”, “At 11 km”). Every tint has its name written next to it; the screen reader reads the same information in words. “Sort” sorts both ways. The website's strips (one column per run) are not drawn there. Everything is read on the phone, offline included, from what it received at its last sync.
• A run with no recorded places (typed in, imported) counts in the dog's distance, not in a place: give it places from the run (“Give the places”).

On the website, the kennel's rigs are prepared in one place: the “Rigs” tab of the Kennel section, right after Dogs.

• Where: the “Rigs” tab, or the button of the same name in the Dogs header. One card per rig: its line in miniature, with each dog's photo and its harness next to the name, then “Open” and “Print”. The “Team” filter (“All”, then each team) keeps one team's rigs only.
• “Ready” or “N without a harness size”, at the top of each card: “Ready” when every dog on the line has a harness size noted. Otherwise, the number of dogs whose size is missing; it is noted in the Kennel life tab of the dog's record.
• Preparing a rig (owner and handlers): “Prepare a rig” asks for the team if the filter hasn't picked one, then opens the full-page editor. Tap a dog in the reserve: it takes its place; or drag it. Under each name, “Harness 5.5” and its markers: the round one for the harness, the bar for the cord, in your kennel's colours if you chose some, otherwise the maker's. A dog with no size noted shows “Harness size not noted”.
• “Harnesses to take out”, under the line: what to unhook for this line, by size and model (“× 3”). “Pick one” flags a dog with several harnesses noted; “size not noted”, a dog with none.
• Building a team (owner only): “Manage teams”, then “Create a team” or a team's name. The same gesture as the rig: the team on the left, the pack in reserve on the right. Tap a dog to move it to the other side, or drag it; with a keyboard, each dog is a button. Only active dogs are offered. A dog can be in several teams: the reserve shows the other teams it already runs in. “Save the team” takes you back to the rigs.
• What the tab doesn't do: a team is not a rig. It says where the dogs come from, and a rig picks its dogs from its team. The Rig view in Dogs stays read-only.
• On the phone, nothing changes: rig templates are read and prepared in Manage › Resources › Rig templates.

A short form; two imports replace repetitive entry.

• Form: name, birth date, baseline weight, sex, type (Sprint / Distance / Mixed), size. The folded section “Reproduction and position” holds Intact · Neutered · Unknown (Spayed for a female), the month of sterilization if you know it, and the usual position (Lead, Swing, Team, Wheel, Not set). A dog never filled in is “Unknown”, which changes neither its heat cycles nor its ration; this data never leaves the kennel. Correcting the recorded biological sex, rather than its neuter/spay status, asks for an explicit confirmation.
• “More options”: exact breed, coat colour, ultra seasons, injury or drop history, “Guest dog (loaned in)”, microchip. Never required. The same form edits a record.
• On the phone (owner): Dogs › “⋯” › “Add a dog” and “Edit dog”, on the sheet, open the same form; under “More options”, the breed, coat colour, microchip and its location, completed ultra seasons and “Previously dropped from a team”. When adding a dog, “Injury history” and “Guest dog (loaned in)” are also under “More options”; in “Edit dog”, these two switches sit under “Save” and save as soon as you touch them. “Mark recovered” (Health tab, owner) clears the injury history. A connection is required: offline, the screen says nothing was saved. A microchip number already carried by another dog in the kennel is refused, on the phone as on the website, and nothing of the sheet is saved.
• Import a roster (CSV/Excel, owner; website and phone, Dogs › “⋯”): several dogs at once, with a preview and duplicate detection before you confirm.
• Import health record (photo, PDF or CSV): reads vaccinations, medications, vet visits, injuries, weigh-ins, BCS to create a dog or fill in one already there. For just the vaccination pages of a dog already there, “Import record pages” in its “Vaccines” grid reviews each session before saving it (see “Import vaccination pages”).

“Remove from the team…” keeps the history; only “Force permanent deletion” erases it.

• Simple deletion: only with no recorded data (session, objective, care record…); otherwise refused, with the number of items standing in the way.
• “Remove from the team…”: retired, deceased, sold, given away or rehomed. History kept; “Reactivate” brings it back (a dog marked deceased by mistake: its star, then “⋯”, “This dog is not deceased”).
• “Force permanent deletion”: erases the dog and its history, no way back. A technical trace stays on the support side, out of your reach, and cannot undo the deletion.
• Web: Profile tab, “Dog management” block (owner), with “Lend out” (to another musher) and the participation level.
• Phone: the “⋯” menu of the dog's page (owner): “Remove from the team…”, “Lend out” (active dog: to whom, loan date, expected return), “Sell or give away by link…”, “Delete permanently…”. A lent dog's page says who has it and since when; “Mark returned” brings it back, on the day you pick (between the loan and today). A connection is required. “Reactivate” is in “Former dogs”; if deletion is blocked, a “Force…” button goes through with it.

A link: the other kennel receives a copy of the dog, with its logbook and career.

• Where: the Profile tab's “Dog management” block (web); the “⋯” menu of the dog's page (phone).
• Goes with it: identity and pedigree, logbook, the training career in summary — its fitness starts from there, not from zero. Never: your notes, vet costs, insurance, GPS tracks, the other dogs on your runs, runs imported from Strava.
• The dog takes the chosen status (sold, given away, rehomed) when the other kennel accepts; you then see only the date and its name. You pass the link on; it works for a single acceptance.
• A dog received this way: “Career before arriving” shows on its page; those kilometres are not added to your kennel's.

Set to “Light activities”, a dog stays in the kennel but leaves sessions, races, objectives, rigs and the form figures.

• Where: web, Profile tab, “Dog management” block; phone, “Edit dog” screen. Levels: “Full”, “Training only”, “Light activities”.
• No longer counted “to check” on the dashboard, nor “Not assessed yet” in Dogs, nor in the statistics' “Effort rated”, nor among the dogs that “Did not run in the period” in “Positions on the line”. Its card reads “Light activities” instead of a form verdict.
• Unchanged: care, weigh-ins, body condition score, tasks, enclosure; a decided rest still shows; past outings keep their distance in the history.

A card opens the dog's full record, in six tabs.

• Profile, Health, Training, Kennel life, Pedigree, Insurance: detailed below. The phone has five: Today, Health, Kennel life (housing, ration, supplements), Training, File; on a phone screen, the row wraps onto two lines.
• Print the record (website, under the record's side panel): an A4 sheet that repeats the six tabs, plus pairings, remarks, lemons and oranges, and harness sizes with the name of their colours. The period is chosen on the sheet: the current season, or the full history (it bounds health and training; everything else is today's state). On the phone: the dog's record › “⋯” › “Share the record book as PDF”, with the same period; the sheet becomes a PDF you send, print or save. It needs a connection.

Identity, mileage milestones and “firsts”, which the owner can share.

• Identity: photo, baseline weight. Training or mixed: mileage milestones (season, all-time) and, once it has run a race, its race record.
• “Milestones” dates its firsts: first outing, first outing in lead, each mileage tier, first race, first podium. Each one opens the outing that produced it.
• Sharing (owner, full access): “Share” turns one into a card — square image and link — seen before sending. “Shared” then marks it for the whole team; the card is withdrawn from the same place.
• Phone (Training tab): “Trophies” under the form curve, read offline from the first tier earned — before that, nothing shows (first season: a single row, “All-time”). “Milestones” below: the same firsts, offline included, each opening the review of its outing; the birth alone doesn't show, except a birthday less than 30 days ago. Share from the button at the end of the row, same card and link, seen before sending, needs a network (an outing not yet synced can only be shared once sent). Its km count its races, as on the website.

Opens on care: summary, charts, then the last month of history.

• History: vet visits, vaccinations, medications, injuries, a female's heat cycles, and health notes logged on the phone under their own name (“Illness”, “Heat stress”, “Paw”, “Health”).
• Vaccines: the “Vaccines” button (website) or the “Vaccines” row of the Health tab (phone; “Note › Vaccination” opens the same screen) shows the vaccination record the way you read it: on the website, a grid — one row per injection day, one box per vaccine (DHPP, Rabies, Leptospirosis, Kennel cough, Other) — and, at the foot, each vaccine's next booster with its state (up to date, soon, overdue, never recorded); on the phone, one row per vaccine with the same state. The tab's summary shows the next vaccine due; “Edit” (website: a row's “Details”) corrects an injection.
• Order: summary (next vaccine, last vet visit, ongoing care), charts and outing alerts over 30 days, then the last month of history. Older months fold into one line; an open care record stays visible. The history is the timeline: one stream by week, “All” on opening; “Health” (care, measurements, check, flags, blood panels), “Runs”, “Remarks” (lemon, orange, remarks, pairs) one click away. Each entry leads to the screen that corrects it.
• Actions: “Vaccines”, “Injury or care”, “Physiology” (heart rate, temperature), “+ Weigh”. Under these buttons, the “Temperature” card (on the phone, the “Temperature” row of the Health tab) shows the latest reading: “Correct” replaces it — only the corrected value is kept, between 30 and 45 °C —, “New reading” adds one; an older reading is corrected from the Journal. Further down: behaviour incidents (“Edit” corrects the date, type, severity, context and note; an incident's dogs cannot be changed — delete it and enter it again), personal folder (free notes, attachments: a prescription). Weight and body condition score (BCS) have their charts.
• Starting a treatment or a vet visit on the phone: the “Add” group at the top of the Health tab (owner, handler, vet). Re-entering a treatment that is already running asks the question, as on the site; “Following” links the care to one of the dog's incidents.
• Injury: the logbook line says what the dog has and what happened when they were noted (“Injury · Paw, pad · Ice, hard snow”); “Edit” corrects or clears them (“—”), along with the severity. An injury noted before has neither; nothing is guessed.
• Copying a record, visit by visit: on the add row (website) or the “Add an injection” panel (phone), a date, the boxes of the vaccines given that day — none is ticked by default —, then “Add · booster Apr 6, 2027”: the suggested booster is written on the button before saving. It is the date + 1 year; for Rabies, “1 year” or “3 years” (1 year by default). “Other” asks for its name. The add row empties and stays open for the next visit. The logbook keeps one line per ticked vaccine. “Details” (folded) holds the name, batch, booster (editable, or cleared) and notes, never required. On the website, unticking a box of a visit already entered deletes that injection after confirmation; ticking an empty box adds it that day.
• Primary vaccination: before 26 weeks (or with “Primary vaccination” ticked for an adult never vaccinated), the suggested booster is the next dose of the series: DHPP + 28 days while the puppy is under 16 weeks, Leptospirosis a second dose at 28 days, then the yearly booster. Unticked, the yearly rule comes back. MushMate suggests the booster date; it creates no task and does not schedule the series.
• Vaccination day, several dogs at once: on vet day, “Vaccination day” in the Dogs operations bar (website) or Dogs › ⋯ › “Vaccination day” (phone; two screens, offline too). The date (today by default), the vaccines given — none chosen by default, “1 year” or “3 years” for Rabies, a name for “Other” —, then the active dogs: a dog is ticked by default when one of the chosen vaccines is due soon, overdue or never recorded for it; a dog up to date on all of them stays unticked. Each vaccine has its own box per dog (a dog without lepto that day; on the phone, tapping the dog unfolds its vaccines), with its last injection and its state. “Save N injections” writes everything at once, one line per dog and per vaccine; the booster is suggested dog by dog — a puppy under 26 weeks gets the next dose of its series, shown under its name before saving. No batch or name per dog: correct them afterwards in the dog's record, like an adult in a primary series. Owner, handler, vet.
• Import vaccination pages: “Import record pages”, on the “Vaccines” grid (website: photos or PDF) or on the Vaccines screen (phone: camera, one page at a time, or gallery, several; “Read the pages”). MushMate reads the sessions — the date, the vaccines (a “DAPPi + L4” combo ticks DHPP and Leptospirosis), the batch and the booster written in the record — and proposes them in the grid. An injection already entered on the same day is unticked (you can tick it again); a badly read session is marked “to check”; a session's date can be corrected, a box ticked or unticked. Nothing is saved before “Save N sessions · M injections”. The booster written in the record wins; otherwise, the rule above applies. An unreadable or impossible date is not imported, and the review says so. The import needs the network: offline, the phone says so and waits. Full access (the trial is enough), owner, handler, vet.
• Body condition score, ration, heart rate: “Correct” and “Delete” on their logbook row (website and phone; owner, handler, vet). A correction replaces the value; a second body condition score on the same day is allowed, the latest one counts. On the phone, heart rate readings are under “Observations”.
• Close with one button: “Mark resolved”, “End treatment”, “End heat” (website and phone). Only the end date is written.
• Delete for good an entry that should never have existed (wrong dog, a test): “Delete” on its row — visit, vaccine, treatment, injury or care, heat, temperature —, then “Confirm deletion” (website) or “Delete for good” (phone, offline too). Owner, handler, vet. It disappears for the whole kennel with its correction history, with no way back; a deleted injury no longer keeps the dog resting. A deleted visit leaves its treatments and vaccines in the logbook. A wrong date or dose is corrected instead. Not yet on the phone for a dog's temperature.
• Heat (intact female): the owner sets “Set the heat rhythm” at the top of the sheet — gap, length, next date. Without a setting or a history, no heat is predicted; nor during a litter. “Didn't happen” (next to “Next heat”, site and phone) skips the predicted heat that did not come: the following one becomes the next. Nothing else is recorded; the real heat recorded afterwards corrects the learned rhythm. With no known gap, the button opens the rhythm settings. Heats also show on the outings calendar (Stats) and the plan's weeks.
• Phone: the health log is the same timeline — one stream by week, the same rail (All · Health · Runs · Remarks); each health-log entry keeps its actions (Edit, Delete, Close).

Form, load and outings; “Understand this number” explains the badge.

• Contents: form and acute-load curve, weekly training load, “Understand this number”, the dog's outings (each linked to its GPS track when it has one).
• “Understand this number” starts with the answer: the badge's number, its state word (balanced, caution, danger), a sentence and a gauge at the thresholds of the format of your current objective (Mid-distance, Long or Sprint). Below, a day-by-day chart — recent load against the usual — that you sweep with a finger or the mouse.
• Three tabs: Why (last 7 days' km against the 21 before; the pack — when the whole pack steps up together, it is not specific to that dog; how far to rely on the number; The facts — the longest gap without a run while the pack went out, the declared rest —, on the phone too), What next (7-day simulation of rest or outings, never advice), The maths (the ratio redone with the day's values).
• Where: on Dogs, on the desktop, in the right-hand panel under the badge; on the phone, the “Load” card of the dog's page (Today tab), with a network. Absent on a pure-breeding kennel.

How the dog lives, where it comes from, what covers it.

• Kennel life: ration log (food catalogue shared across the kennel); supplement cures; gear worn (harness, booties per paw, coat, rest blanket, life jacket — brand, model, size); housing history (enclosures, cohabitation).
• Ration: one food, or a mix of several (“Compose a mix”: each food has its share of the day's energy, and the total is 100 % — “Save” stays off, and a sentence says why, until it is). A share can also be given in “fixed g” (“500 g of meat, 6 g of supplement”): it is served as is, and one food, marked “the rest”, makes up the day's need. Under the composition, the card gives the ration's minerals — the calcium / phosphorus ratio against 1–2, and on the website the five minerals in g/day and per 1,000 kcal against an adult's minimum (FEDIAF 2025) — and against a ceiling where a source publishes one: sodium 3.75 (NRC 2006), calcium 6.25 and phosphorus 4.0 (FEDIAF 2025), none for potassium and magnesium; on the phone, the ratio and one sentence, the detail behind a link — from the compositions entered on your foods; a food without one gives a “partial balance” that names it. It is a guide, never a block. The owner alone also sees “What this ration costs” (per day, over 30 days, at the last price paid on a Stock delivery), and the cost per dog and for the kennel on the on-screen ration sheet — never on the printed poster. A mix has an optional calorie target (blank, it is worked out from weight, cold and kilometres); a single food has “Use the suggestion”, which copies the calculated grams. The suggested grams are added up from three parts, which the Ration card shows under the figure: maintenance · cold · work (in kcal) — a neutered dog's maintenance counts at 0.8, a dog of 9 and over at 0.9; a dog under 24 months whose ration carries an “Expected adult weight” gets its growth (NRC 2006) when it exceeds maintenance + work, and the card says which one counts and where the kilometres come from (outings of the last 7 days, planned km, or race day). Work is paid by the kilometre: a dog running a lot gets a lot more than before, and, beyond 8 times its resting need, the card reminds you to top up with meat and fat. In mild weather and at a moderate volume, the suggestion can be lower than before; grams entered by hand never move. Cold is wired but switched off (awaiting a vet): the card's Cold line stays visible, with a hatched segment, and reads “Not counted yet: awaiting veterinary validation.” The kennel's “Dogs sleep” setting (outdoors or indoors) — Plan › Settings on the website, “Model settings” on the phone; one exception per enclosure on its sheet — prepares the day cold is switched on. The card shows its formula: a “maintenance · cold · work” bar, one line per term with its numbers, then “need ÷ the food's energy = grams”; the week of kilometres that sets the work is in the card on the website, and behind “See the week” on the phone. An activity level fixed on a dog becomes an “imposed level”: it replaces the calculation and the card says so. The owner sets the ration on the desktop and on the phone alike (“Edit ration”); every member reads it, and “Kennel rations” (a link under the Ration card) lists what each dog fed at the kennel gets per day — retired and guest dogs (dogs lent to you) included, each marked as such; a dog you lent out isn't there; litter puppies get one line per litter, with the ration entered on the litter page, with what to stock — per food, per day and per week. Under each dog, the phone sheet and the printed poster list its current treatments: logbook medications (dose, route, end date) and supplement cures. On the phone, that sheet reads offline (cures need the network); the printable poster stays on the desktop.
• Pedigree: sire and dam (linked to another MushMate dog or free text), a search or certificate scan, descendants' race performance, and the dog's registry (its name and registration number: self-declared, never verified).
• Pedigree on the phone (owner, with a network): File tab, “Edit the pedigree”. For the sire and for the dam: search a dog by name (every kennel; the sex is written on each line, nothing enforces it) then link it, or type a name that is not on MushMate — no scan — or clear it; below, the dog's registry. Each card saves on its own. Without a network nothing is saved, and the sentence says so. Linking a dog from another kennel puts yours in that parent's descendants. The descendants and the older generations are read on the website.
• Insurance: insurer, policy number, contacts, contract as a PDF. On the phone, the “Insurance to complete” banner on Today opens the dog concerned when there is only one (the entry screen for the owner, the only one who can write insurance; the dog's page, Health tab, for everyone else, and the button then reads “View”), otherwise the “Insurance” list under Manage › Resources.

“+ Weigh” on a record, or “Weigh-in day” for several dogs at once.

• “+ Weigh”: the dog's record, Health tab. “Weigh-in day”: the “Weigh-in” button of the operations bar; one pass, everything saved at once.
• Safeguard: a weigh-in that would bench the dog (more than 8% below its baseline weight) asks for confirmation, and says so; so does a weight more than 20% off the last weigh-in (or the baseline weight) — the ration is computed from that figure, so catch a misplaced decimal point.
• Wrong weigh-in: “Delete” on its logbook row (Health tab, website and phone; owner, handler, vet), then a new weigh-in. A weigh-in can't be edited. Fitness to run and the ration then follow the previous weigh-in.
• Weight chart (Health): flags a rapid loss or gain, more than 7% within three weeks or less.