One breed · One lifetime

Know your dog. All the way through.

Most dog books try to cover every dog, so they miss what matters to any one breed. Breedhandbook gives each breed its own thoroughly researched handbook, with sources cited line by line and guidance from choosing a litter to saying goodbye.

Find your breed What is inside

One breed per handbook Sources printed beside the claim Free lifetime updates

Every breedresearched separately

Every yearcovered

8breeds available

10+printable tools

Find your breed

Start with your dog. Find your breed's handbook.

Eight breeds are in the library, and more are on the way as it grows. Find yours below.

What makes a Breedhandbook

You should be able to check what you read. So we put the source beside the sentence.

See real pages

Almost all dog advice comes without a source you can check: no study, clinic or screening scheme.

In a Breedhandbook, the name of the source appears beside each health claim. You can check it on the page instead of hunting through a bibliography at the back. The sample pages below show the source tags in place.

A separate book for every breed

Each breed has its own complete handbook, rather than a chapter, appendix or "breed profile" in a general dog book. Its guidance does not have to fit both a six-kilo lapdog and a seventy-kilo giant.

Thoroughly researched, every time

Each handbook is researched afresh for its breed. Every fact comes from that breed's own clubs, registries, health-screening schemes and veterinary literature, so what you read applies to the dog in front of you rather than to dogs in general.

A lifetime, not a puppy phase

The ten chapters follow the years in order: choosing well, the first night, the socialisation window, adolescence, the adult years, the changes of old age and the final decisions. Each age band reflects that breed's lifespan rather than a calendar for dogs in general.

Named sources, printed beside the claim

Every health claim has its source beside it. Sources include the breed's national club, orthopaedic and respiratory screening bodies, veterinary associations and peer-reviewed journals. You can check the claim for yourself.

Every age, every stage

A whole life, in the order it happens. Not a puppy book with an ending bolted on.

The ten chapters begin before homecoming and continue through your dog's final year. Their age ranges follow the breed's lifespan, so a dog with nine years ahead is not put on the same calendar as one with fifteen.

Before homecoming, and the first weeks

Which puppy — and what on earth do we do the first night?

The chapter covers how to assess a litter, what to ask a breeder and which health tests the parents should have for that breed. It then takes you through the drive home, the crate, a toilet routine that works and the short socialisation window that opens during those first weeks.
Adolescence, then the long good middle

Why has my lovely puppy stopped hearing their own name?

Adolescent training can seem to come undone; in the years that follow, it becomes more reliable. The chapters cover recall despite distractions and the growth and exercise limits set by that breed's frame. They also cover keeping weight where you can still feel the ribs, caring for teeth, and the small daily habits that shape the second half of life.
The senior years, and the last one

Is this just slowing down, or is something actually wrong?

The chapter distinguishes normal ageing from changes that call for a vet visit this week. It also covers comfort and mobility at home, a quality-of-life scale you can score honestly, and how to make the final decisions ahead of time rather than at two in the morning.
Any age, any hour

Something is wrong right now. Do I watch, or do I drive?

The emergency chapter explains which urgent problems this breed is prone to, what to do in the first ten minutes, and when to stop reading and drive to the vet.

What arrives

One download. Ten chapters, ten printables, no filler.

10 life-stage chapters — from choosing a breeder through your dog's final year, each written for one breed
10 printables in US Letter and A4 — shopping and puppy-proofing checklists, a vaccination schedule, a growth chart, training logs, lifetime cost tables and a quality-of-life scale
The same three boxes in every chapter — what is normal at this age, the vet timeline and one serious risk for that breed at that stage
Named sources printed beside the claim, so you can check any line yourself
Free lifetime updates — buy once, and every later edition is yours
Instant download — yours to keep on a phone or tablet, or to print and punch for a ring binder

$29USD One price. The printables are included.

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A page headed How to Use This Guide, showing the three boxes every chapter carries: what is normal at this age, the vet timeline, and the breed alert — Each handbook opens with the same layout. The three boxes recur in every chapter, so the key guidance is easy to find.

Look inside

Real pages, exactly as they print.

These four pages are from the Labrador Retriever handbook. The other handbooks use the same format, with content written for their own breeds. Open a page to see it at full size.

Watercolour of four very different dogs standing together in a summer meadow — a tall pale retriever, an upright black-and-tan shepherd dog, a small flat-faced bulldog and a low, long-bodied red hound

The library

One breed. One whole book.

Each breed gets a new book, not a template with its name changed.

The whole handbook is researched for that breed alone, using its clubs, registries and health-screening schemes. The writing and illustrations are made for the breed too; nothing is carried over from another handbook. If you don't see your breed yet, let us know and we'll put it on the list.

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