People who compete with dogs take record-keeping seriously — up to a point. The official documentation is usually solid: title certificates filed away, scoresheets kept, results logged somewhere. The problem is the somewhere. A folder here, a spreadsheet there, photos of ribbons on a phone that's three upgrades old. The record exists but it's fragmented, and rebuilding it into a coherent picture of a dog's competitive career takes real effort.

For a dog working across multiple organizations and disciplines — AKC obedience and rally alongside IGP, or NACSW nose work alongside UKC conformation — the records are scattered across completely different systems, formats, and filing conventions. There's no single document that says: here is everything this dog has done, here are the trials they entered, here are the results, here is what they've earned.

PackLeader is that document.

What the titles section actually tracks

Every title in PackLeader is logged against a specific organization. The app includes preset organizations covering the major registries and sport organizations — AKC, UKC, IGP, IPO, DVG, PSA, NACSW, USPCA, NADAC, USDAA, ASCA, CPE, KNPV, French Ring, MondioRing, Belgian Ring, AWC, APDT, CKC, SV — with an open field for anything else. If your dog is titled in a sport that isn't on the list, you type it in. The system doesn't restrict you to a preset menu.

Each title tracks:

  • Status — Not Started, In Progress, or Earned
  • Date earned — when the title was officially achieved
  • Trial log — every trial entered toward that title, with date, result (Pass/Fail/NQ), handler, score, phase breakdowns where applicable, and evaluator name and number
  • Notes — goals, observations, next steps, anything relevant to the title pursuit

The trial log is where the competitive record lives. Not just the title and the date — the full history of how you got there. Every attempt, every result, what the score was, who was handling, who was evaluating. If a title took six trials across two years to earn, all six are in the log.

Why the trial log matters

A title certificate tells you that a dog earned a title on a specific date. The trial log tells you the story behind it.

For breeding decisions, that story matters. A dog that earned a title on the first attempt under straightforward conditions is a different data point than a dog that earned the same title after multiple attempts across varied environments. Neither is better or worse in isolation — but the context is real information, and it's information that traditionally lives in the handler's memory rather than any document.

"A title tells you what a dog achieved. The trial log tells you how they got there — and that's the part that matters for what comes next."

For a dog with a long competitive career, the trial log also becomes a historical record that outlasts any individual handler's memory. A dog titled across ten years, in multiple sports, with multiple handlers — that record has real value, and it only exists if someone has been maintaining it systematically.

Titles in progress

Not every title is earned on the first attempt, and not every title pursuit is a straight line. PackLeader tracks titles that are in progress — titles you're actively working toward — alongside the ones already earned. You can see at a glance which titles are being pursued, how many qualifying scores you have, and what the trial history looks like so far.

For sports where titles require multiple qualifying scores — several AKC performance titles, NACSW nose work titles, rally titles — tracking the qualifiers matters as much as recording the final achievement. The app tracks both.

Across organizations and disciplines

This is where the breadth of the title system becomes genuinely useful. A dog competing in multiple disciplines — IGP and nose work, rally and dock diving, herding and agility — has records spread across completely different organizations with completely different formats and conventions. PackLeader doesn't care. Each title is logged against its organization, and the full picture of the dog's competitive career is visible in one place.

For the sport dog community specifically, this matters in ways that go beyond personal record-keeping. When a dog's career is documented completely — every title, every trial, every organization — that record has value for breeding programs, for the breed community, and for the legacy of the dog itself. A dog that competed seriously over many years deserves a record that does justice to what they accomplished. A folder of certificates in a drawer isn't that.

Part of the complete record

The titles section doesn't exist in isolation. A dog competing at a high level is also managing their health, their training, their conditioning. Vet visits that relate to a competition injury attach to health threads. Training sessions that build toward a title performance are logged in the training section. The dog's complete record — health, training, competition — lives in one place, connected.

For a sport dog especially, that integration matters. The dog that earned a title last spring was also the dog managing a shoulder issue the previous fall and working through a training plateau the winter before that. Those things are related. The complete record lets you see how.

A filing cabinet holds the certificates. PackLeader holds the career.