> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://breederbuddy.com/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Calendar > Use the BreederBuddy calendar to see only due dates, hide birthdays, understand event colors, make monthly or yearly recurring care reminders, set vaccine and dewormer follow-up reminders, and see vet appointments, heat cycles, breeding dates, due dates, puppy go-home days, and dog birthdays in one place, set email reminders and recurring events, and sync to Google Calendar or Apple Calendar. # Calendar > **Video walkthrough:** [Watch on Loom](#) *(link coming soon)* *** Calendar is your central view of everything happening in your program — vet appointments, breeding dates, puppy pick-ups, socialization milestones, and any other events you schedule. It pulls together events from all your dogs and litters into one place. *** ## What You Can Do Here * Switch between Month, Week, Day, and Agenda views * Add new events by clicking any day, dragging across a time range, or using **New Event** * Drag events to reschedule them, or drag their edges to change how long they run * Search events and filter by a specific dog or litter, or by event type * See dog birthdays automatically without manual entry * Mark events as complete when they're done * Sync your BreederBuddy calendar to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or any app that supports iCal * Recurring, timed, and all-day events are supported *** ## How It Works ### Adding an Event 1. Go to [**Calendar**](https://app.breederbuddy.com/calendar) in the left menu (under **Events**). 2. Click on a day (or drag across a time range in Week or Day view), or click **New Event**. 3. Fill in the **Title**, **Type**, and any **Description**. Check **All day** for events without a set time (you'll pick a **First Day** and **Last Day**), or set a **Start Time** and **End Time**. 4. Optionally use **Associate With** to link the event to a specific dog or litter. 5. Tick **Email Reminder?** to get an email before the event, or **Recurring Event?** to repeat it every so many days, weeks, months, or years. 6. Save — the event appears on the calendar. ### Completing an Event When an event is done, mark it complete: 1. Click the event on the calendar. 2. Select **Complete** on the card that pops up. 3. The event is logged as completed. Health-related events can create a health record for the dog (or every puppy in the litter) at the same time. ### Syncing to an External Calendar BreederBuddy can sync your events to any calendar app that supports iCal (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, etc.): 1. Click **Sync to Calendar** on the Calendar page. 2. Tap **Apple Calendar**, **Google Calendar** or **Outlook**. Your calendar app opens and asks you to confirm the subscription. This works the same on an iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC. 3. Using a different app? Choose **Copy the link** and add it to that app as a subscribed calendar. Events from BreederBuddy then appear in your calendar and stay updated. Apple Calendar usually picks up changes within an hour; Google and Outlook can take several hours. If you ever share the link by mistake, the account admin can choose **Reset link** in the same window. Calendars using the old link stop updating, so subscribe again with the new one. ### Showing Only Some Events (Like Due Dates) 1. On the [**Calendar**](https://app.breederbuddy.com/calendar), find the **Show on calendar** panel beside the calendar. On a phone, tap **Filters** to open it. 2. Untick every type you don't want to see. For example, to see only due dates, leave just **Est. Whelpings** ticked under **Breeding**. 3. To focus on one dog or litter, pick it in the dropdown at the top of the panel (it starts on **Everything**). 4. Click **Show all** to bring everything back. ### Event Colors Each event's color comes from its **Type** (for example **Medical**, **Litter**, **Business**, or **Pickup**). The colored dot next to each type in the **Show on calendar** panel is its color key. To change an event's color, open it and pick a different **Type**. You can't choose your own custom colors. ### Repeating Events (Monthly or Yearly Care) For care that repeats forever, like monthly heartworm or a yearly vaccine: 1. Click **New Event** and fill in the **Title** and **Type**. 2. Use **Associate With** to link it to the dog. 3. Tick **Recurring Event?**. 4. Set **Repeat every** (for example, 1) and **Frequency** (for example, **Month(s)** or **Year(s)**). 5. Optionally set **When should it stop repeating?**, and tick **Email Reminder?** if you want an email each time. 6. Save. The event repeats on the calendar. ### Follow-Up Reminders After a Health Record When you log a vaccine, deworming, test, or vet visit, BreederBuddy offers to create a follow-up reminder. Click **Yes, Create Follow-up** and an event opens with a suggested date: | Health record | Suggested follow-up | | - | - | | Deworming | 2 weeks later | | Vaccination | 1 year later | | Test | 1 year later | | Veterinarian appointment | 1 year later | | Anything else | 6 months later | These suggestions can't be changed in Settings, but you can change the date on each follow-up before you save it. For a puppy series (for example, boosters 3 weeks apart), just pick the right date. **Start Time** is when the reminder appears on your calendar, and **End Time** is when it ends (it only affects how long the block looks). If you tick **Email Reminder?**, the email is timed from the **Start Time**. Skipped it? Click the calendar-plus button next to any health record to create a follow-up later. ### Dog Birthdays BreederBuddy automatically adds dog birthdays to your calendar based on each dog's date of birth. You can turn them on or off with the **Birthdays** checkbox in the Calendar's filter panel. ### Go-Home Days Every litter's go-home day is on the calendar automatically: "Autumn puppies go home" on the litter's go-home date, or on the estimate from its birth date until you set one (marked **est.**). A puppy with its own go-home date gets its own entry. These rows follow the litter and the puppy, so change the date there and the calendar moves with it; they can't be dragged. They also come through to Google Calendar and Apple Calendar with the rest of your feed. *** ## Tips & Common Questions > **Can I see events for a specific dog or litter?** > > Yes — events tied to a dog or litter also appear on their individual profile pages under the **Events** tab. > **Do events from Care Schedules show up here?** > > Yes. When you apply a care schedule to a litter or dog, each task becomes its own event on the litter's or dog's **Events** tab and on the main Calendar. After that they're normal events: edit, complete, or delete them one by one. See [Care Schedules](https://breederbuddy.com/docs/features/care-operations/care-schedules.md). > **Can I set reminders?** > > Yes. Tick **Email Reminder?** when creating or editing an event and choose when to **Send the reminder**, from at the event time up to a week before. The email goes to your account address. You can also sync your calendar to an app like Google Calendar for its notifications. > **Why can't I move some bars on the calendar?** > > Heat cycles, fertile windows, estimated whelping dates, whelping watch, birthdays, and go-home days follow the records they come from. Change the underlying record (the heat cycle, the litter's breeding date or go-home date, or the dog's date of birth) and the calendar updates on its own. > **Why don't I see my events on my phone's calendar right away?** > > Subscribed calendars refresh on your calendar app's schedule, not instantly. Google and Apple Calendar can take a while to pick up new or changed BreederBuddy events. The BreederBuddy calendar itself is always current. *** ## Still Have Questions? We're here to help. If something isn't working the way you expect, or you'd like to have a discussion around a certain topic, please reach out to us anytime through the chat in the bottom right corner of your screen. Thank you. 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