For kennels, mushers, breeders, trainers, dog walkers, sitters, handlers – and others who work with dogs

Qpaws was built for people living an active life with dogs – from one dog to many. It becomes especially powerful when several dogs and several people are involved.

Which dog did what, with whom — and how is each dog doing right now?

Qpaws brings activity, health, care and the people around each dog together in one shared history.

Just to be clear: Qpaws isn’t an invoicing system, booking platform or ERP for dog services or veterinary practices.

But it already is a valuable tool for kennel owners and other professionals in the dog world — helping simplify day-to-day work and keep what happens with and around dogs in one place.

And that’s where Qpaws is strongest:
Keeping track of many dogs. Their day-to-day. Their history. And the people around them.

Powerful enough to handle complex setups, while keeping it simple, fast and intuitive to use.

For many professionals – and semi-professionals – that already solves a meaningful part of the job.

We can support the way you work today and, with your experience and input, help shape the Qpaws of tomorrow.
Tell us what you do and what you’d want Qpaws to solve next.

team@qpaws.com

Check out some professional setups below

Jump to: Kennels · Mushing operations · Trainers & handlers · Working dogs · Hunting & field dogs · Dog walkers & sitters · Breeders

Work with dogs? Try Qpaws with your real setup.
Start with your dogs and the people who work with them. If you run a larger operation, get in touch – we'd like to help you get started.

First, the basics: Qpaws is built around three main things

Every setup on this page is a variation on the same three pieces.

Dogs

Every dog has its own profile, activity history, health and care records, statuses and Timeline.

The history stays with the dog – whoever trained, walked or cared for it.

People

Caretakers give people access to a specific dog – full for those you trust with more responsibility, limited for those who only need to help with certain things.

Groups

Groups organise dogs and people around how you actually work: a kennel, a crew, a training team, a class or a club.

Access and organisation are two different jobs.

Caretakers decide who can work with which dogs.

Groups decide how you organise the work.

A dog can sit in several groups at once and move between them as the season changes.

The dog stays the same. The context changes.

Learn these three pieces and the rest is arrangement.

Kennels

Many dogs. Several handlers. One operation.

Give every dog its own profile, invite your people as caretakers and create a group for the kennel.

Everyone works from the same information, and an activity or log added by one person becomes part of the dog's history for the others who have access.

With Qpaws you can:

• see important dog statuses at a glance – who's injured, in heat or on medication
• track activities by dog and by handler
• keep health and care records with the dog, not in a binder
• follow activity and training volume across dogs
• organise dogs and people into the groups you actually use

A useful setup

Invite the people who work with each dog as caretakers – full access for trusted handlers and limited access where that's enough.

Then create one group for the whole kennel, plus additional groups only where they help organise the work.

Mushing operations

Built for the dogs behind the team.

Racing kennels and tour operators can have dozens of dogs and a rotating crew.

The hard part isn't recording one run.

It's understanding the work across dozens of dogs, several handlers and an entire season – while keeping track of which dogs actually did what.

Qpaws keeps every run connected to the dogs that did it.

You can:

• track one dog or a full team
• record line positions for every dog
• follow workload across dogs – who ran where, how far, how often and at what intensity
• see distance, elevation and training history across the season
• organise dogs and handlers into different teams and groups

One kennel. Several contexts.

A typical mushing operation might have:

Kennel
Every dog and the core people working with them.

Race Team A
The dogs and handlers preparing for one race programme.

Race Team B
A second racing team.

Puppies & young dogs
Dogs following a completely different training programme.

Tour crew
Dogs and seasonal handlers working commercial trips.

A dog can belong to several of these at once and move between them as the season changes.

The dog stays the same. The context changes.

A useful setup

Permanent staff with full caretaker access, seasonal handlers with more limited access where appropriate.

Start with one kennel group for the whole operation, then add groups for the teams and purposes you actually need.

Trainers & handlers

Your programme. Their dog. One shared record.

Ask the owner for caretaker access.

Training sessions can then live on the dog's Timeline instead of being scattered between your notes, messages and the owner's memory.

With Qpaws you can:

• track or log every training session
• add session intensity and notes
• see the dog's relevant activity history
• set goals so trainer and owner can work towards the same plan
• see what the dog has actually done between sessions
• organise classes, cohorts or training teams with Groups

A useful setup

Use caretaker access for each individual dog, plus a Training Team group when you want to group dogs for training and racing and follow their stats.

Working dogs

When the work matters, the history matters.

Search and rescue, service and assistance dogs, detection dogs and other working dogs build capability over time.

Qpaws gives each dog a consistent, dated history of what it has actually done – sessions, distance, duration, intensity and relevant health and care records.

And when several people work with the same dog, the history stays with the dog rather than one handler.

Qpaws can help you:

• record training consistently
• add intensity and notes to sessions
• follow activity and training volume over time
• use Custom Goals to plan work on specific days
• keep injury, rest and return-to-activity periods alongside the training history
• organise dogs and handlers into groups

For guide and assistance dog programmes, the same basic principle can follow a dog through different stages and people: puppy raiser, trainer and eventually handler.

Qpaws isn't a specialist working-dog management system.

But the underlying model – dog + activity + history + people – already makes it useful for teams that want a better shared record.

A useful setup

Create a group for the unit, team or cohort and give caretaker access to the handlers and trainers responsible for each dog.

Hunting & field dogs

Conditioning through summer. Sharpening through autumn. Recovery after.

Training a hunting or field dog is a year-round job, even if the season isn't.

Qpaws lets you bring GPS-tracked activities and manually added training sessions into the same history.

You can:

• follow distance, duration and intensity over time
• combine conditioning and specific training in one history
• compare activity and training across seasons
• keep health, rest and relevant care alongside the work
• organise dogs and people around a hunting party, training group or club

A useful setup

Keep the complete history on your own dogs, then use a group when several dogs and people train or hunt together.

Dog walkers & sitters

Show the owner what actually happened.

When someone gives you caretaker access to their dog, the walk doesn't have to disappear into a text message afterwards.

Track it in Qpaws and it becomes part of the dog's history.

Depending on the access the owner gives you, you can track activities and add relevant everyday updates without needing control over everything in the dog's profile.

You can:

• track the walk with GPS
• add permitted logs and updates
• attach photos
• let the owner see the activity afterwards - or
• turn on Live Following so the owner can follow the walk while it's happening

Every activity shows who recorded it, so the owner knows what happened and who was with the dog.

No “how long did you walk?” message required.

A useful setup

Caretaker access for each dog, with Live Following when useful.

Breeders

A history that starts before the new owner arrives.

A dog's Qpaws history can start long before it moves to its new home.

Weight, vaccines, health information, photos and everyday records can stay with the puppy itself rather than being scattered across paper, spreadsheets and messages.

You can:

• follow weight development
• record vaccines and other health information
• keep notes, photos and milestones with each puppy
• connect dogs to dam, sire and siblings
• create a group for a litter or puppy owners
• invite the future owner as a caretaker so the dog's history can continue after handover

The result isn't just a handover document.

It's the beginning of the same history the dog can keep building throughout its life.

A useful setup

Start each puppy's record early, create a group around the litter where useful, and invite the future owner before handover.

Other ways professionals use Qpaws

The same pieces can work in other professional settings too.

Show & conformation

Grooming, coat care, feeding, weight and condition can live alongside the activity that keeps a dog in shape.

Qpaws also connects dogs to dam, sire and siblings, helping keep family relationships connected across dogs and owners.

Dog services

Groomers, daycare and other regular providers can use caretaker access and Dog Services groups to keep relevant information connected to the dog.

Clubs & training communities

Create groups around a club, training community, season or race weekend and bring together people who train with their dogs.

Getting started

Start simple.

Create your dogs. Invite the people who regularly work with them. Make one group for the whole operation.

Then use Qpaws for real.

Track the work. Add the important logs. See what becomes useful – and what gets in the way.

You can add more teams, groups and structure once you know what you actually need.

Running a larger kennel or team?

Get in touch.

We're happy to work directly with early professional users to find the best way to set up dogs, people and groups – and to learn where the current Qpaws setup needs to improve.

team@qpaws.com

Help us build the professional layer

Use Qpaws for real – then tell us where it gets in your way.

We're not building the professional side of Qpaws in isolation.

If dogs are part of your work, we'd rather see how Qpaws performs in your real working day than ask you to imagine a list of future features.

Use it for a few weeks.

Then tell us:

• What still ends up in a spreadsheet?
• What takes too many taps?
• What should several handlers be able to see at once?
• What information should follow a dog between people or organisations?
• Where does Qpaws fit naturally into your work?
• Where doesn't it?

That's the feedback that will shape what comes next.

What we're exploring

There are also areas where we think the history being built around each dog could become useful beyond Qpaws as it works today.

These aren't live features or promises on a roadmap.

They're areas we want to explore with people who know them better than we do.

Verified veterinary records

Qpaws already lets people keep vaccine information with their dogs.

One direction we're interested in exploring is verification – for example, allowing a veterinary professional to confirm a vaccination directly in the dog's Qpaws history.

The dog could then have a trusted digital record showing what was given, when and by whom.

If you work in veterinary care and think this could be useful – or think we're approaching it the wrong way – we'd like to hear from you.

Rehabilitation & canine health

A rehabilitation professional might see a dog for an hour.

What happens during all the hours between appointments can matter just as much.

Qpaws already captures parts of that picture: activity, distance, duration, intensity, rest periods and changes over time.

We think there's an interesting bridge to build between a dog's everyday activity history and the professionals helping it train, recover and return to activity safely.

Insurance

Over time, a long, dated history of a dog's activity, health, weight, vaccines and care could potentially become useful in an insurance context too.

We're not assuming what that model should look like.

We'd rather explore it with the industry before deciding whether Qpaws has a useful role to play.

Reach the Qpaws community

We're also exploring ways for professional services, experts, clubs and events to become more visible to Qpaws' community of active dog people.

That could include sharing relevant expertise, services and events through Qpaws and its open feed.

If that's interesting for your organisation, we'd like to hear from you.

Work with Qpaws

If dogs are part of your work, try Qpaws with the way you actually work.

Start with a few dogs – or bring in the whole operation.

Invite your people. Track the work. Build the history.

Then tell us what works and what doesn't.

Tell us what you do, how many dogs you work with and what you'd want Qpaws to solve.

team@qpaws.com

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Start with The complete guide to Qpaws – dogs, tracking, Connections, Progress, caretakers, groups and everything else you need to get started.

Updated on: 14/09/2026