do potential show pups have superior kc names to pets? and if so dosent this put a person who wants to begin showing at a disadvantage ?

I assume that you are referring to my post under another thread.

I have certain chosen names for show puppies, if someone buys a pup from me and ask for that to be a potential show puppy or if I keep one myself then they are given one of those names.

If however they are buying the puppy purely as a pet then it would not be given one of my chosen names.

But this is my preference only, the name of the puppy will have no effect on what a puppy does in the show ring, so no it would not put a person at any disadvantage

Regards

Jayne

I keep a list of names which I like the sound of, then when I have a litter of puppies, (a very rare event), I ask my puppy owners to choose a name off the list, I don't mind what they choose and both potential show/working homes and pet homes all get the same opportunity. I usually choose flowers, bushes or trees as names, and where ever I happen to visit I try to find local names, so that I have an almost inexhaustable list. An example of this is, I know that woodsage in Germany is called Master of the Wood, which for a working gundog is a lovely name, stinking water violet is also called the Bog Bean, also apt if you own a flatcoat which rolls regularly in every disgusting thing it can find! Throughout the UK there regional names for almost every plant, bush or tree that you can think of. If you then add in plants, bushes and trees from other countries, then you would have to breed an awful lot of puppies to use up all the names.
regards
Polly & the Foxpath Flatcoats who all regularly roll and could be called Bog Bean!

Hi Polly, i might be wrong but are you the Polly that i know?? I dont want to say to much but the Polly i know organises eye testing at Haddenham?? sorry if i am wrong, i am Jackie with the Bullmastiffs, you can email me if you wish regards jackie. :-)

Personally speaking, I like to give a potential show puppy a name which isn't too long to write out on entry forms over and over! And which will fit easily into the available space on a pedigree form a few generations down the line! Most 'pet' owners (though most showdogs are primarily pets too) couldn't tell you what their dog's registered name is, because they never need to use it. So why 'waste' a lovely-sounding name, because you can't use it again..
:)

JG I like names that aren't too many letters otherwise they get too expensive to get engraved onto the trophies!!! :)

Show off! :p ;) :D

sam !!!!! dont you get discount ??????? i do now :p :p :p

I know one particular showdog whose name, after the addition of his new owner's affix, has a name 7 words long! It takes up most of a catalogue!

I choose names for all the pups that I wouldn't mind seeing listed in show catalogues, after all there are lots of nice names to choose from.

if you look at the names my show pups have youd probably prefer not to have a showname :rolleyes: i try to pick a theme, but as long as the names ok i dont mind anyone picking there own.

I tend to use a theme if I can. That way it doesn't matter if the pup becomes a pet or a show dog. One of my last litter is being shown under a name I didn't choose (forgot to give a replacement name) Its horrid. Even the owners don't like it. The name, not the dog :o

My breeder gives her last name to the front of the pups kc name then for every litter she finds names for each litter from one letter in the alphabet
:
1995 litter = h
puppy one ___ honisty
puppy two___ harmony
1997 litter =k
think its quite a good idea myself:D

thats what my breeder does too her kennel name first followed by the letter shes up to on each litter 1st litter a 2nd b etc .i doubt she'll ever get to z .thanks for everyones replies . im glad the kennel club dident choose my girls name at least shes got a name that shows her personality for the first few weeks with her breeder.

As far as I am aware you cannot use a word repeated for all pups in a litter unless it is a registered affix (the KC want your money when you choose it, and every year to maintain it's sole use). I also beleive that Surnames would not be acceptable.

I had a litter that were all my affix then Wot A ?????

well thats what my breeder has done brainless shes now on the M's now and her surname is actully very nice, not a common one:D at least she can see what dogs are hers at shows.

Are you sure she hasn't registered her unusual name as an affix? It says quite clearly on the registration form (see on KC site under forms, that words repeated for all pups will not be allowed for registration unless a registered affix. Otherwise why would thousands of us pay £20 per year (not forgetting the initail cost) to use an affix when registering a litter, when we could save ourselves the money?

duno ill have to ask her. but i still think its a good idea. u can at least trace your pups in shows.

That is the purpose of a breeders affix. Mine is Barbelka, so all my litter are Barbelka A....., Barbelka B..... Barbelka C...... My current litter will all be Barbelka I......... names, have them all ready to go off to KC. Just to be awkward the second word for my pups is always a Polish Word (except for a litter I bred from a Friends bitch, on what is called a loan of Bitch agreeement). I find that I rarely get my choices refused using a non english word.

My puppies all get Shakespearean names of which most folk hate, so they can never say that the better names go in the ring!!! Ha ha!!!!! AND I kept probably the worse name from my 2nd litter - Hermia...the amount of folk that think saying Hernia, is funny...Yawn....... :rolleyes:

Hi Barbara

You can use the same word if you have an affix, not if you don't I think.

We have a couple of people in our breed who reguarly do this - I had one litter that I named
K. Kastle of Ebony
K. Kastle of Gold

so three words were the same for each pup and one different

Christine