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One breed · One lifetime

Know your dog. All the way through.

Most dog books are written for every dog, which means they are written for none of them. Breedhandbook makes one handbook per breed — thoroughly researched, cited line by line, and written to last from the litter you are choosing to the last quiet afternoon.

Find your breed What is inside
One breed per handbook Sources printed beside the claim Free lifetime updates
Every breedresearched separately
Every yearcovered
160+illustrated pages
10printable tools

Find your breed

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

Five 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 arrives with no source at all — no study, no clinic, no screening scheme, nothing you could check if you wanted to.

In a Breedhandbook, a health claim carries the name of the body it came from, on the page, beside the sentence. Not a bibliography at the back that nobody turns to. You can see the tags in the sample pages further down.

A separate book for every breed

Not a chapter, not an appendix, not a "breed profile" page. One breed gets one whole handbook, and nothing in it has to also be true of a six-kilo lapdog and a seventy-kilo giant at the same time.

Thoroughly researched, every time

No handbook is another one with the names swapped. Every fact in it is drawn 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 — not to dogs in general.

A lifetime, not a puppy phase

Ten chapters follow the years in order: choosing well, the first night, the socialisation window, adolescence, the long good middle, the senior shift, and the last decisions. The age bands are cut from that breed's own lifespan, not from a generic dog.

Named sources, printed beside the claim

Every health claim carries its source where you read it: the breed's national club, orthopaedic and respiratory screening bodies, veterinary associations, peer-reviewed journals. Check any line without taking our word for it.

Every age, every stage

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

Ten chapters run from before homecoming to the last good year — and where one chapter stops and the next begins is set by that breed's own lifespan, so a dog with nine years ahead and a dog with fifteen are not handed the same calendar.

  1. Watercolour of a puppy sitting on a lead, taking a treat from an outstretched hand

    Before homecoming, and the first weeks

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

    Reading a litter, the questions to ask a breeder, which health tests that breed's parents should have, the drive home, the crate, the toilet routine that actually works, and the short socialisation window sitting right in the middle of it all.

  2. Watercolour of an adult dog trotting along a sunlit woodland path ahead of their person

    Adolescence, then the long good middle

    Why has my lovely puppy stopped hearing their own name?

    The months when the training seems to fall apart, and then the years when it holds: a recall that survives distraction, growth and exercise limits set by that breed's frame, weight you can still feel ribs through, teeth, and the small daily habits that decide how the second half goes.

  3. Watercolour of an older, pale-muzzled dog asleep across their person's lap by a lamp

    The senior years, and the last one

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

    What ageing looks like versus what needs a vet this week, comfort and mobility at home, a quality-of-life scale you can score honestly, and the last decisions made in daylight rather than at two in the morning.

  4. Watercolour of a dog settled on a hallway rug beside a chew toy, the front door behind them

    Any age, any hour

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

    The chapter you hope you never open, and the one that does not wait its turn: the emergencies that particular breed is built for, what the first ten minutes look like, and the point where you stop reading and get in the car.

What arrives

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

  • 10 life-stage chapters, from choosing a breeder to the last good year — every one written for a single breed
  • 10 printables in US Letter and A4 — shopping and puppy-proofing checklists, a vaccination schedule, a growth chart, training logs, lifetime cost tables, a quality-of-life scale
  • The same three boxes in every chapter — what is normal at this age, the vet timeline, and the one high-stakes 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, and yours to keep: read it on a phone, on a tablet, or printed and punched into a ring binder
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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
Every handbook opens the same way, and every chapter carries the same three boxes — so you always know where to look.

Look inside

Real pages, exactly as they print.

Four pages from the Labrador Retriever handbook. Every handbook in the library follows the same format, but is breed-specific. Open any page 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.

A breed handbook is not a template with a new name at the top. It is a new book.

Everything in it is researched for that breed alone, against its own breed clubs, registries and health-screening schemes, and written and illustrated for that breed. Nothing is carried over from another handbook. If the breed you want is not here yet, tell us and we will put it on the list.

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