K9-Ped offers a combination of features not available within any other pedigree program. Many of these features are unique to K9-Ped. The program was developed as tool for our own pedigree research. Fast, easy data entry is an essential part of building a meaningful database. Sorts, searches, coefficient of inbreeding, percentage of blood, ancestors and progeny lists and risk factor assessments are necessary tools in planning a breeding. Using these tools allows you to select dogs that carry the lowest risk of heritable disease and other undesirable traits. After ten years of real user assisted development and requests from everyone who has seen or used the program, the commercial version of K9-Ped is now in beta test and will be available shortly.

K9-ped keeps information about a dog's name in a case insensitive, spacing insensitive, punctuation insensitive format. To K9-Ped a name starting with "Highpoints", "Highpoint's", "High Points", "HIGHPOINTS" or "High Point's" is the same name. The program will not let you enter two different names for the same dog just because the case, spacing or punctuation is different. This is important for ancestry, progeny, percent of blood and COI calculations and is the most common error seen in databases converted to K9-Ped. Search your database and list errors including the wrong sex, dogs older than parents and dogs listed in their own pedigree.

Lookup & Load works for all name inputs. This includes dog's names, Owner/Breeder names, Judges, Handlers and Show locations. When inputting a sire or dam, dogs of the wrong sex are excluded from the selection list. K9-Ped will not accept a male as a dam or a female as a sire.

Litter data (Sire, Dam, DOB and litter registration number) can be copied from one dog and pasted to another or copy the data and when you add a littermate the information is filled in automatically.

You can define ten different named tab patterns. The tab patterns define which data fields are bypassed when the Tab or Enter key is pressed. One pattern can be defined for stud book entry that only stops on fields with information contained in a stud book, one for show catalog, one for OFA or CERF lists and another for the information included on a basic pedigree. Tabbing only to needed fields saves time on data entry.

The ten basic and twenty additional data fields can have different labels for each breed. Define labels for the Genetic Disease buttons by breed.

Select a breed picture from one of the 168 online pictures (k9ped.com) or use your own. Use *.jpg, *.gif or *.bmp pictures of any size. This picture will appear on the input page unless a separate picture is defined for the current dog. Individual dog pictures can be included on their printed pedigree.

Ever wondered what dog's were owned or bred by someone? Wanted to see the other owners & breeders of someone's dogs? Other programs have a single entry for owners and one for breeders. This data do not have the Lookup & Load feature so full names must be typed with no consistency or ability to find meaningful information about an individual owner/breeder.

Calculate up to twelve generation COI data in seconds. View a listing of every dog involved and the actual components of the combined COI value.  When calculating COI values different sytems give different results depending on what COI value is for each common ancestor.  K9-ped gives you the choice of using a calculated value limited by the selected number of generations, the previously calculated ten generation values our using zero for the value.  This allows your calculated values to be compared with other systems based on the method they use.

The "Calculate All COI" feature works very fast. Depending on the system speed, four, six, eight and ten generation COI values are calculated at a rates exceeding one hundred dogs per minute. These are full calculated COI values, based on the "Wright" formula, not approximations. It can still take hours to calculate the COI values for every dog but, the process can be started and stopped and other programs run while the calculation is being done. No other program would even attempt to automatically calculate four different COI values for every dog in a 30,000 dog database. On a 450 MHz system it can easily be done overnight.

Data input couldn't be easier. View a six-generation pedigree and input or edit any sire or dam directly from a single screen. Change the "Current Dog" to any dog in the pedigree with one double-click. Return to the previous dog with a single click. Return to the input screen with the prior current dog or select the current dog displayed on the pedigree screen.

Use the pre-defined formats, design your own or clone and modify one of the pre-defined formats. There are no limits to number of pedigree styles you can use.

Instantly view the database sorted by AKC number, Date of Birth or ten generation COI value. Search on any data field by "Starts With", "Contains", or "Exact Match". View all of the ancestors (up to thirty generations) sorted by name, percent of blood or individual COI. View a selected number of generations of progeny with the same information.

Instantly view a list of any dog's progeny. Viewing the same list for one of their progeny is just one double-click away. The progeny list includes the sire or dam depending on the sex of the current dog, the progeny's sex, the number of progeny for each dog in the list, and the Genetic Disease codes for each dog.  Dogs with common sires or dams can be listed in the same manner.

With K9-Ped you can define up to three genetic related diseases and input the one letter code for Affected, Carrier, Produced, Unaffected, clear (None) or leave it blank to use the user defined average for the disease and breed. View a chart with graphic display of the chance a dog is (or will be) affected, a carrier or clear. A second letter can be used to indicate the source of the information. All parents and progeny of all affected dogs can be automatically changed to Produced and Carrier status. All progeny of an affected dog are carriers and all parents of affected dogs are producers. Risk data are based on simple recessive passing but can be used as a relative measure of risk for polygenic diseases with a recessive component.