Whelping mode
Log every birth with timestamps, weights, and sex in a calm full-screen flow. Photos, notes, and post-birth checks all attach to the right puppy.
For breeders
Modern tools for thoughtful breeders.
Whelping notes. Daily weight tracking. Application triage. Health test records with documentation tiers. A public profile that shows your standards. And lifelong connection with the families who take your puppies home.
Free to try Your data, your way No pay-to-rank
What's inside
Everything a serious program does anyway, in one place.
The receipts your work already produces, visible to the families who care.
Daily weight tracking
Capture mode is built for one-handed use during the early weeks. Sparklines surface concerning trends instantly. Weight-loss warnings before they become emergencies.
Application triage
Paste an inbox of emails or import structured applications. AI-assisted extraction, your placement philosophy as filters, explainable matching. You decide every placement.
Health-clearance vault
Every test you report shows the evidence you attached: an OFA/CHIC number buyers can look up, a PDF you uploaded, or owner-reported with nothing attached. Owner-supplied throughout. Buyers verify at the registry themselves.
Public profile, on your terms
Per-field exposure controls. Show your kennel name, location, and breeding philosophy. Keep contact details private. Toggle individual fields at any time.
Stud listings
Publish your studs to the public marketplace. Owners contact through the platform, your email never leaks. Contracts attach to the inquiry, not to a public PDF anyone can scrape.
Outside studs supported
Used a sire from another program? Mark it as external, health tests still attach, documentation tiers still apply. Link to their CohortKit profile if they have one.
Owner lifetime connection
Age-triggered care reminders. Breed-emerging health alerts. Temperament surveys back from owners. Training material you write once, share with every family. Optional everywhere.
AKC retention covered
The records you have to keep for Breeders of Merit are kept anyway. Exportable, signed, audit-trailed.
The other hats you wear, bookable online
If you groom Saturdays, run a Wednesday puppy socialization class, or handle stud consults over Zoom, list them here. Buyers pick a time from your recurring availability rules. Appointments land on your calendar. Share one link with clients. No site of your own required.
What makes it different
Built for breeders, not for clicks.
No engagement gamification
No "Active now" indicators. No response-time rankings. The platform doesn't pressure you to be online, it just keeps the receipts when you are.
Paid plans don't buy placement
No badges we made up. No star ratings. No pay-to-rank. The directory sorts by objective, verifiable factors: completeness of parent-club-recommended health testing, whether your program has been active on CohortKit in the last 60 days, and how close you are to the buyer (when they're logged in). Paid Pro plans do not boost you above another program in a stronger health-testing tier. What you share is what buyers see, and every claim links to the source registry.
Documentation tiers you can see
Every health test on a public profile carries a tag: Registry linked, Document on file, or Owner reported. Buyers see the difference at a glance, and can verify registry-linked results themselves.
No middlemen on transactions
Applications go directly to you. Payments settle straight to your Stripe or PayPal account. We don't insert ourselves in puppy sales or stud fees. CohortKit takes zero from what you're paid.
How to start
Four steps to a published profile.
- 1Create an account. Email + password. Two minutes.
- 2Set up your kennel. Name, location, breeds, philosophy. Each field you mark public appears on your profile.
- 3Add your dogs and clearances. Sires, dams, health tests, uploaded or registry-linked. Past litters too, if you have the records.
- 4Publish a litter. Toggle public visibility when you're ready. Applications start landing in your inbox.
Pricing
Free to start. Pay when the program needs it.
No deposits taken on your behalf, no per-puppy fees, no marketplace cut. Cancel any month, your data exports cleanly.
Free
For occasional breeders
$0 a month, always
A public breeder profile, an application inbox, stud listings, and one litter workspace. No card, no trial clock.
- Public breeder profile + health-test records
- Application inbox
- Stud listings
- Buyer applies through your profile
Pro
For working programs
$25 a month
Everything in Free, plus applicant summaries, unlimited litters, placement records, contracts and invoices, bookings, and lifelong owner support.
- Faster applicant review · summary, positives, watch-outs, suggested reply per application · privacy-first, breeder-controlled
- Review flags in your own words · surface concerns without auto-declining
- Digitize temperament sheets · snap a photo, scores flow into placement matching
- Smart import from JotForm, Google Forms, Typeform, Airtable · columns map automatically
- Unlimited litters · owner-lifetime messaging
- Invoices + digital-signing contracts · PDF export
- Custom application questions · templates + bulk triage
- Online bookings for grooming, boarding, training, consults · recurring rules, one link to share with clients
- AKC retention exports
Done for you
A custom kennel website
Designed and built by a senior software engineer who also breeds. Your own domain, dog pages carrying titles, clearances, and pedigree, litter pages that keep themselves current.
- From $499 covers a five-page site
- A large kennel, years of content, or a stud directory moves it up
- Most projects land between $499 and $900
- Fixed quote agreed before any work starts