Naming your dog

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>Depends on the breeder.  Some breeders require you use their >kennel name, some require you stick to a theme that they’ve >come up with, some already have a name for the puppy that >they will require you to use for registration purposes (of >course you can always call the puppy whatever you want!).

Rocky was born the week Frank Sinatra died – the breeder liked that as a theme, but I couldn’t come up with a "blue eyes" name for a Black Tri Aussie. The kennel name (Cruisin) at the front or end was fine with her and I liked the idea of a call name in the registered name.   Since I can see the Rocky Mountains from my porch (on a clear day and when the trees have dropped their leaves), the Rockies were my theme. First choice: Rocky Mountain Cruisin (rejected – needs an "of" if the kennel is at the end). Second choice: Cruisin the Rocky Road (accepted – no mountains, but fits his personality). — –Matt.  Rocky’s a Dog.

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Piper’s Registered name is Ebony Chrispin Piper.  Which means Black,Curly haired , Piper.  Piper is a Black standard Poodle.  Ellie’s name is Ellie Est Noire Which means "She Is Black " in french.    She is also a black Standard poodle. Ashley, Annie, Piper and Ellie.

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I have noticed that my puppies sire’s name contains part of his parents name (bear).The Dam’s name also contains Bear but her parents names don’t contain that name. Is it customary to include the parents name, or portion thereof when naming the puppy. Thanks D Manchester

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::::::Is it customary to include the parents name, or portion thereof when naming the puppy.::::: It depends on what your contract says, assuming you have one.  When I got Daria, I had to include the kennel name and the letter "E" since she was the "E" litter.  Most of her litter also included the sire’s name or a portion of it (his name was Uriel and 5 of the litter has Von Uri/Uriel or Vom Uri/Uriel included)  I chose not to include Uri in Daria’s registered name and the breeder was fine with that since I had included the kennel name and the designated letter. Obviously, with my boy who has an ILP, I chose his name randomly (well, not really but I did not have generations of names to work with) Years ago, when I got a BYB dog (no contract) I did include the sire/dam name in the registered name because I thought it made a cool sounding name.   Basically, unless you have a contract that states specifically you HAVE to use it, you are pretty much free to name a puppy how you like. Denise Stone Fort’s Eternal Hope, CGC, CD "Daria" Immortal Watcher, CGC "Dawson" the tailed wonder

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>It depends on what your contract says, assuming you have one.

Or sometimes it’s just fun to do something like that.  Two of my dogs hvae registered names that are derived from the parents’ names.  For example I came up with KT’s Before The Mast (call name Dana), b/c her sire has an ocean theme in his name, and her mother has a Traveller theme in hers, so I immediately thought of sailors.  And yes, I live near Dana Point No contract, just having a lot of fun playing with the names. –Cindy —

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> I have noticed that my puppies sire’s name contains part of his parents name > (bear).The Dam’s name also contains Bear but her parents names don’t contain > that name. Is it customary to include the parents name, or portion thereof > when naming the puppy. > Thanks > D Manchester

Well, with my Sheltie, the breeder wanted her kennel name first, the rest was up to me. I didn’t particularly care for the parent’s registered names, and so I selected one that had nothing to do with them. If they had names that I liked, I might have incorporated their names into my dog’s name. I’ve seen it done very well; say the father’s name is "XYZ’s Black Ice" and the Dam is "ABC’s Wind Dancer" then the puppy might be called "ABC’s Ice Dancer" or "ABC’s Dances with Icicles" or so on. You can do what you like! Christy

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> I have noticed that my puppies sire’s name contains part of his parents name > (bear).The Dam’s name also contains Bear but her parents names don’t contain > that name. Is it customary to include the parents name, or portion thereof > when naming the puppy. > Thanks

Another schema that is uses it have a theme for a litter. I’ve known breeders who try to tie this in with the letters too. The letter method may be a breeder decision or a breedwide issue. I know there is at least one cat breed where all cats born in a certain year need to be named with names beginning with a certain letter. When it is breeder chosen, it usually proceds on a litter by litter basis. Karen

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Depends on the breeder.  Some breeders require you use their kennel name, some require you stick to a theme that they’ve come up with, some already have a name for the puppy that they will require you to use for registration purposes (of course you can always call the puppy whatever you want!).   The only thing I personally request of my pet puppy buyers is that they use my kennel name at the beginning of the registered name.   Sometimes breeders do combine the sire and dams name for a registered name.  For example my Louie is CH Dogwoods Breathtakin’ Devil, from his sire who is CH Dogwoods Tazmanian Devil and his dam who is CH Sukaras Dogwoods Breathtak’r (aka Cassie).  Now Cassie gets her name from her sire who is Int/Am CH Sukaras Take My Breath Away ROM.  Louie has now sired his first litter and I’m tempted to name my bitch bitch Delites Breathless LOL. Then you have my puppy from a litter I bred that was whelped in June. He’s Delite’s Murphys Law.  His name has nothing to do with either his sires or his dams name.  It just happens that when he was little that everything that could go wrong, did.  He was born via botched c-section due to a vets idiotic practices.  Sometimes names just seem to create themselves LOL. Some people do it alphabetically, especially in the German breeds. So their first litter will be their A litter with all the names starting with A and so on down the alphabet.   And as said, some pick themes.  Like they may have a litter and decide that this will be their "flower" litter and all puppies will have a "flowery" name. Most breeders are much more picky about names on their show prospects than on their pet puppies.  I mean, its one thing to have a pet puppy registered as Kennelname’s Fluffy and a whole ‘nother to have a show puppy who’s name is going to be in ads and catalogs named Kennelname’s Fluffy.   So follow whatever if any guidelines your breeder gave you regarding a registered name and beyond that just be creative <G> — Susan Shih Tzu Delites http://www.angelfire.com/ga/shihtzudelites/ Topknots & Tails Petgrooming "Dogs aren’t our whole life, they make our lives whole"…Roger Caras

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