The story of your breed
He puts himself between you and the door when something sounds wrong. He lies down close on the day you're not okay. Nobody asked him to. He gets it from centuries of dogs who did exactly that, and it's still in him. His breed explains almost everything he does in your house. We read it and hand it to you as a book, in his name.
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The book
You open the first page and there's his name. Then comes where his breed came from, what they bred it for, and how much of all that ended up asleep in your house. And why he does what he does when he thinks you're not looking.
One payment. Yours forever.
What it looks like inside
Every page is about him: where his breed comes from, what he carries in his blood, and why he does what he does. Written in his name, down to the last detail.
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Whatever your dog is
If you know his breed, we have his whole origin: the names, the dates, the work he was bred for. And if he's a mutt nobody could ever name, we read what he's made of — which breeds he carries in his blood and where each piece came from.
A stranger walks in and he greets him. He'd greet the burglar too. Telling them apart isn't in him.
Every golden in the world descends from a litter of four puppies born in Scotland in 1868. Sir Dudley Marjoribanks bred Nous with Belle on his Guisachan estate.
You come back and he's at the door. He'd been there since before the car turned the corner.
Hachiko waited nine years at Shibuya station for someone who was never coming back. Nobody taught him that.
You step into the water and he steps in behind you. He'll haul your kids out even if they're playing just fine.
Peter Pan's nanny was a Newfoundland. That was no accident. They pulled people out of the freezing Atlantic.
From the finest pedigree to the mutt down the street
The two paths
Both cases end in the same book.
You type the name and it's all researched already. We show you a piece of his story right there, free, so you can see what we're talking about.
You upload a photo. Nobody knows yet what he carries inside, and that's exactly the interesting part. We're going to tell you, and his book comes out of that.
Three different hands before it reaches yours.
Someone on our team digs up the origin and the character of his breed in real sources. If a fact can't be verified, it doesn't go in.
A team of writers turns that research into a book told in his name. There is only one book told this way, with his details.
Designers give it the finish and the quality of a real book. So it feels like what it is: his.
Four reasons. Underneath, only one: it's him.
One day you understand why he glues himself to the door when you leave, why he follows you everywhere, why he won't drop the ball. It stops being a bad habit. It's who he is. And you forgive him everything.
He gets in the water behind you. He plants himself between you and whatever sounds wrong at night. Nobody taught him that: he gets it from centuries of dogs who did exactly that. His book tells you where it came from.
We don't build a pretty story to sell you a book. Every name and every date comes from a real source. If a famous legend doesn't hold up, it stays out. Truth before the tale.
His name on the cover, his story inside, written for him alone, with no other like it anywhere. Dogs don't last us as long as we'd want. This stays.
Reviews from people who ordered their dog's book.
The shelter said “lab mix” and left it at that.“Rosie came home with one line of paperwork and no story. I sent her photo in mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. Reading where her chest came from, and the ears, and why she plants herself against the front door every night, I ended up reading it twice standing up in the kitchen. She was never “just a shelter dog.” She has a couple hundred years behind her.”
I stopped fighting my own dog.“Australian Shepherd. Three years of me being frustrated and him being wrong. He never settles, he nips at heels, he rounds up my kids in the backyard. Then I read what he was bred to do for two centuries and it reframed the whole thing in one afternoon. He wasn’t acting out, he was working, and I wasn’t giving him any work. I made him jobs. Different dog.”
My sister read it out loud at the table.“I gave it to her for her birthday with a photo of her Golden. What I didn’t expect was the history part: every golden retriever alive comes down from one litter of four puppies born in Scotland in 1868. She started reading it out loud and the whole table went quiet. Her dog’s name is on every page. It’s one of the gifts people actually keep.”
Really solid, I just wanted more pictures.“Got it for my dachshund and the writing is genuinely good, especially the origin section and the temperament chapter. It doesn’t read like filler, which is what I was worried about. My only note is that it’s a lot of text and I would have liked more illustrations. Still learned more than I expected and I’d buy it again. Just being honest.”
I went in looking for the mistake.“I’ll admit I’m a skeptic. I’ve been reading about German Shepherds for fifteen years and I expected the same four facts everyone copies off each other. The opposite happened. There was material on the origin I hadn’t run into, and everything I could check myself was right. You can tell when it’s written by someone who actually knows. Read it in one sitting.”
The chapter on character is what got me.“My beagle used to drive me up a wall. I’d call him and it was like talking to a wall, nose glued to the ground. The book explained that once he locks onto a scent he shuts everything else out, and that it was bred into him on purpose, generation after generation. He isn’t ignoring me. He’s just what he is. That took the edge off me, which was the part that needed it.”
Everything you want to know before ordering his book.
The history and origin of your dog's breed, what he carries in his blood, his character explained through his history, his care, and his family of breeds. All written in his name, with his name on every page.
No. The research on each breed is the same, because facts are facts, but the book is written in your dog's name and told for him. It isn't a template with the name swapped out.
Our team studies the origin and character of each breed in real sources. Then a team of writers turns it into your dog's book. If a fact can't be verified, it doesn't go in.
From real sources: kennel federation standards, breeder records, the literature on each breed. We research every breed one by one, with facts you can go and check yourself. When something is tradition rather than proven fact, we say so.
We tell you what his body and his energy need according to his breed, and what's worth keeping an eye on. But it's a good read, not a consultation: for any health problem, your vet is the one who has to see him.
His name, whether he's male or female, and his breed. If you don't know it, you upload a photo and we identify it. And there's an optional box to tell us what he's like: that he's scared of thunder, that he sleeps against the door, whatever comes to mind. That doesn't get lost in a form — you'll read it inside his book.
It's a digital book that arrives in your inbox. You can read it on your phone or your computer, keep it or print it. It's yours.
3 days after your order. That's the time it takes us to write it and look over every page — we email you the moment it's ready. You don't have to do anything.
No. You order it once, you pay once, and it's yours forever.
You have 7 days from delivery to ask us for a revision. If the mistake is ours, we redo his book and send you a corrected copy at no cost. Because it is a digital book made in his name, we do not issue automatic refunds: the details are in our refund policy.
Yes, and it's one of the things people ask us for most. You need the dog's name and breed, or a photo if you don't know it. If you know any of his quirks, tell us: that's what makes whoever receives it feel the book is about their dog and no other.
Not yet. We're working on it.
Start with his breed. Nothing to pay.