[Dailydrool] Dog Names

[Beverly Szaton]

Registered dog names often are different from "call" names because the
breeder wants his or her kennel name on the papers, and often has a theme
in mind or a letter (ABC etc) so that when she looks in a show catalog and
sees
Apple Fritter's Lovesong in April of SongTime
He (or she) is going to know:
Apple Fritter is the dam's kennel
Love song in April -- the theme was spring love
of Songtime-- the sire's kennel

So the reader instantly knows exactly who bred the dog, who owned the sire
and what litter it was from.

Incidentally, the dog's call name might be Lovey, or April, or Max. It
doesn't have to have anything to do with the registered name, but lot's of
people strive to have a match up of some kind there.
Hence, Lewis, named by Mr Biscuit after his Grandfather whose name was
Lewis Lewis, was actually Bonsai's Gravity Storm, and Mitchell, named after
another relative of Mr. Biscuit's, was First Class (breeder's kennel)
Ensign M (the relative) Bonsai (the theme: trees.)
The Belgian Sheepdogs were mine to name and so, poor Doc is actually
Mika's (kennel) Keokuk (the "K"litter)Medicine Man of Liswyn(sire's kennel
name). Because I went backwards and wanted to call him "Doc" I tried to
work it in somehow. Again, the registered name reflects things about our
family.

I know breeders who think up fabulous names that work the call name in, but
I am not one of them, obviously.

MomPerson to Merta Lou (Lewis Lewis's wife) and Doc.
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