Hello, so I've been issued with my affix, which appeared in the January edition of the Kennel Journal, and with no objections I assumed that it was mine to keep!

But after reading the letter that accompanied the certificate, I see it says "We strongly recommend that you do not produce any printed material using the provisional Kennel Name until 3 months from the date of publication of the relevant Kennel Club Journal has elapsed".

Does anybody know why we have to wait 4 months before we can be sure the name is ours? This seems ridiculous. I just assumed that once your one month in the journal was up all was ok??

Hi,

I am looking to apply for my affix soon too - how did you come up with your name? Did you get your first choice?

It's just in case someone puts in an objection to your affix they have 3 months to object after it's been published after that its unchangeable

> how did you come up with your name? Did you get your first choice?

With difficulty!
I had one name in mind which I really wanted but apparently it was already taken, and even varying the spelling by several letters wasn't acceptable. It took me over a year to find something I felt equally happy with, after thinking about it on almost a daily basis (read: driving me nuts).

My decision came when someone posted on here about the trend for prefixes being less "traditional" names these days (main reason for that being the extreme difficulty in finding something not already taken!). And that reminded me of a word with a great deal of meaning for my family, the name of a house we lived in when I was a child, taken from a nearby field name which dates back to the 13th century, and more or less unique.

Mine was also in the January edition, the first online one, and I still haven't told many people just in case!

PS: I do envy some of the breeders overseas who can register kennel names of more than one word - some of them are very imaginative, especially the French ones which are used as an affix after the dog's name. Might be a nightmare for show secretaries, but "Of the Fields of Burnished Gold" or suchlike is very pretty.

Might be a nightmare for show secretaries, but "Of the Fields of Burnished Gold" or suchlike is very pretty.

Can be quite a headache to type Dutch and Belgian (and some French) kennel names in breed notes also -all those words you cannot even begin to imagine how to pronounce, with lots of aa and ee and oe etc! :) If they are shown a lot you eventually learn. Sticking in my mind forever will be for instance Van De Baarbeekhoeve Brizo for Bonvivant, and Gisele Grandgousier Du Crepuscule Des Loups!

> Sticking in my mind forever will be for instance Van De Baarbeekhoeve Brizo for Bonvivant, and Gisele Grandgousier Du Crepuscule Des Loups!

I have no doubt my own chosen affix will get mangled by different accents and typographers if it ever gets overseas! :)

Just out of interest, I wondered what Grandgousier means -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandgousier

And according to Google Translate, Baarbeekhoeve means Pace Creek Farm.

Yes but if the letter says people have exactly 30 days to object (from when it appears in the journal) why do we have to wait 3 months? Nobody can object after 30 days??

It is probably just in case an objection is raised, after the publication of the new affix.

As for choice, we didn't register an affix until shortly before our first litter, out in Canada.   In that instance, we chose the Roman version (abbreviated) of the city we lived near to.   There is no reciprocal agreement between KCs and as time went on, still taking Dog World over there, I spotted another breeder, in another breed using the same name in the UK.   Strangely they registered the name about the same time we did, out in Canada.   At the time I wasn't particularly bothered.   However, when we returned to the UK, we had to decide what to do about this, and wrote to the people with the same affix (we knew who they were and where they were) to ask if they were still active, and using their affix.   I was amazed to receive a very unnecessarily aggressive reply back saying they were active, that they were glad the KC was doing their job to protect affixes and they'd not release it in any case, other than for a FOUR FIGURE SUM!!!     Fat chance.    So we had to think of another name which was sad as not only had we brought 7 hounds back with us, most of them were shown back here including one who gained her UK Champ.title - all under our Canadian affix.    I have always thought of ourselves as still being the original affix!    And I wish it was possible, if unlikely, to have some liaison between KCs.

Oh interesting MsT, I've often wondered but never checked -but as Grandgousier is said to be a HUSBAND, it makes no sense for a bitch -wonder if the name Gisele Grandgousier then works out as using it as a surname?!