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Vaccination schedule, growth tracking, socialization, house training, and emergency preparedness for the first 16 weeks of life with a new puppy. The system that turns the chaos of those first weeks into a sequence.
001 / What is inside
10 documents covering vaccination, growth, the first 30 days, and daily emergency preparedness. Organized as the system a new owner reads once and references for the next 14 years.
The first 16 weeks of life with a new puppy decide the next 14 years. Vaccination schedule. Socialization. House training. Weight tracking. Emergency preparedness. Most new owners try to remember it all from memory and end up improvising at the worst moments — calling the vet to ask when the next shot is due, scrambling for poison control after the puppy chewed something at 11pm, realizing on week six that nobody has been logging anything.
The kit is buyer-facing. A working breeder can pre-fill the Vaccination Schedule with the puppy's date of birth before go-home day so the new owner opens a workbook with their actual dates already calculated.
It is the buyer-side companion to the Operations Kit (the breeder workflow tools) and the Contract Kit (the legal layer). The three kits work together as a complete breeder-to-buyer system — or this one runs on its own as a new puppy owner's system for the first year.
A 5-file puppy vaccination schedule pack: Print and Digital fillable PDF + DOCX, plus a multi-puppy Excel workbook with auto-calculated due dates following AAHA guidelines.
A 2-page permanent vaccination log you keep for the life of the dog. Boarding facilities, groomers, and dog shows all ask for this record.
A 1-page vet visit tracker that captures the reason, findings, treatment, and next step for every visit your puppy makes to the vet.
A 1-page monthly preventative tracker for heartworm, flea, and tick treatments. Catch missed doses before they catch you.
A 1-page reference chart with expected weight ranges by size category from 8 weeks through 18 months. Spot tracking problems early.
An Excel weight tracker with live formulas for 24 weekly weigh-ins from go-home through 12 months. Auto-calculates weekly gain and percent gain.
A sequenced checklist covering two weeks before pickup, day before, first 24 hours home, week 1, and weeks 2 through 4 with your new puppy.
A 2-page checklist tracking exposures across six categories during the critical 3-to-16 week puppy socialization window.
A 2-page daily potty schedule and accident log for the first 4 weeks of house training. Includes a 20-event reference schedule.
A 1-page emergency contact sheet you fill in the day your puppy arrives. Includes vet contacts, ASPCA Poison Control, and emergency-care warning signs.
Orientation pieces that make the kit land cleanly with a new owner and frame the system end-to-end.
002 / Who it is for
The kit assumes you are bringing home a puppy in the next few weeks or already brought one home, and want every decision in the first 16 weeks to be on paper instead of in someone's head. If that matches you, every document lands. If not, the FAQ below covers the edge cases.
The Vaccination Schedule writes the dates. The Socialization Checklist runs the 8-to-16 week window. The New Puppy Checklist sequences pickup day and the first month. Open the kit, read once, reference for the year.
The Vaccination Schedule supports up to 8 puppies in one file — multi-dog households see every dog's next vaccine in one glance. The Weight Tracker runs in parallel for the new puppy while the existing dogs stay on their own protocols.
Send the kit home with every placement. Pre-fill the Vaccination Schedule with the puppy's date of birth and the Emergency Contact Sheet with your program info. The buyer receives a system instead of a stack of paperwork.
003 / Frequently asked questions
The six questions that come up most often. If yours is not here, and ask directly.
Both. The kit is built as the buyer-side companion to a working breeding program. New puppy owners use it on their own to handle the first 16 weeks with structure rather than improvisation. Working breeders buy the kit and include it in every go-home packet so every placement leaves with the same documentation. The 14 documents do not require any breeder-side workflow to be useful for a new owner.
The Puppy Vaccination Schedule follows current AAHA puppy vaccination guidelines, which is the protocol most US small animal vets use as their baseline. DHPP at 6-8, 9-10, 12-14, and 14-16 weeks, rabies at 12-16 weeks, plus first-year boosters at 12 months. The workbook calculates the actual dates for your puppy based on the date of birth you enter. Always confirm with your veterinarian before each dose.
The Puppy Vaccination Schedule and the Puppy Weight Tracker are both Excel workbooks with live formulas. Open them in Excel, Apple Numbers, or Google Sheets, type your puppy's date of birth and weigh-in numbers into the labeled cells, and the schedule populates due dates, the weight tracker calculates weekly gain and percent gain. The Vaccination Schedule supports up to 8 puppies in one file with a consolidated next-due summary tab — useful for multi-puppy households and breeders placing a litter.
Free puppy checklists on the internet are unsequenced item lists with no integration. Buy this, buy that, read this article. The kit is a connected system: the Vaccination Schedule writes the dates, the Weight Tracker logs the curve, the Socialization Checklist runs the 8-to-16 week window, the New Puppy Checklist sequences the first 30 days. Each document references the others and they share a common structure. The Excel workbooks alone do the math that no static chart can do.
Yes. The kit is licensed for the working breeder to send home with each placement. The Vaccination Schedule can be pre-filled with the puppy's date of birth before pickup so the new owner receives a workbook with their actual dates already calculated. The Emergency Contact Sheet can be pre-filled with the breeder's contact information. Most working breeders pair this with the Operations Kit on the breeder side and the Contract Kit for the legal layer.
Fourteen-day no-questions-asked refund — email dmumphrey@builtbydusty.com and you get your money back. Updates inside the current major version (v1.x) ship free to the email address you check out with. When the AAHA vaccination guidelines change or a working breeder catches something the kit is missing, the next version lands in your inbox.
004 / Related kits
The New Puppy Kit is the buyer-side. Three other kits cover the breeder side: the legal layer, the back-office operations, and the waitlist system. Bundle pricing applies if you grab more than one in the same order.
The legal layer that pairs with the buyer-side puppy kit. Nine contracts with editable Word files and field-note annotations. Sale, deposit, stud, live arrival, and more.
The breeder-side back office. Screening, whelping, weight tracking, vet visits, and the go-home checklist that connects directly into this kit.
The reservation system that runs before the puppy goes home. Twelve documents plus a tracking spreadsheet covering intake, screening, communication, and matchmaking.
Try the free version first
The Puppy Vaccination Schedule (.xlsx) is also offered as a free download in exchange for an email. Same workbook, same auto-calculated dates, same multi-puppy support. Try the format before committing to the full kit.
Get the free schedulePast templates
The New Puppy Kit is written for general dog ownership and working breeder placements. If you need the same structure adapted for a specific breed, registry, or program protocol, the workflow diagnostic is $199 and ends with a written report whether you hire afterward or not.
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