I've recently become an owner of 2 puppies, we are looking at showing and breeding from the one (hubby has 20 years experience of this) but we'd like to start up our own affix, hubby is currently using his moms but we would like to get our own.

however i am going round in circles trying to come up with one, i've tried jumbling letters from ours and the kids names and picking random things but nothing seems to sound right,

how did you all come up with an affix, anyone got any tips for me, finding one is hard enough but the kc request atleast 3 but preferably 6!!

any help would be very much appreciated

Michelle

I've played about with different names for the past 6 months and still not come up with 1 let alone 6 like you have said.
I'm hoping that something will come to me, like a name of some food or something odd like that.

Good luck with it

Thanx for that, am hoping it wont take 6 months to finally come up with something lol

i used my first dogs name, and added part of the breed name to it to make my affix. :)

well i had alot at one point.
i have a kooikerhondje a dutch breed so i looked at dutch word and in the end i setteled for zuiverboom which means pure(zuiver) and tree(boom) its got a ring to it and everyone loves it when they hear it.

Mine is a combination of two breeds, and I have several friends that have done the same thing -not even always a case of actively breeding two (or more) breeds, just taking the breed they are involved in and adding another they have kept or like.

For my cats it's the first two queens' pet names mixed together.

Mine is a combination of three dogs names who were very important to me, the one I grew up with, the first dog I ever owned and the first one of my current breed. It was provisionally granted this week, I now have to wait for it to be published in the Kennel Gazette for September to see if there are any objections. Fingers crossed.

> how did you all come up with an affix

No good me giving advice on this one! 

I would have liked to use my affix from when I showed cavies, but it wasn't available in the dog world.  So I decided that I wanted an affix that didn't actually mean anything.  Took me absolutely forever to come up with 6 that weren't "proper" words.

If I remember right, it was my 3rd choice that was accepted.  Weeks after it was accepted, I was idling away on the net.  And googled my affix.  I now know that it's some sort of amoeba!!!!!  

Two breeds I really like, one of which I am involved in.  Just meshed the two together.  Was so glad when I registered the pups, that it wasnt taken!  As there are a few people who breed both breeds, but its mine LOL

It took me about 50 tries to find an affix I liked as everything I suggested seemed to have been used or too similar to other peoples. I would send a  few names off hget them rejected and send 3 more. I spent all my waking time thinking baout affixes. Even naames I made up the KC rejected.
In the end I sent a list of about 20 names to the KC and finally one was accepted and I like it and I think it suits my breed, but it was hard work to find and I was starting to despair that I would find anything.

Mine is a combination of my and OH first names and surname, first choice accepted. :)
The others I had quite a few :)  were baby names I had given to other dogs and two of them were names for a particular special parson boy I had.
None of them were 'real words', you could always have a look online at the KC website at existing affix for inspiration. 

> am hoping it wont take 6 months to finally come up with something lol

Well these ideas may help....

I decided to call use as my affix the name of the estate I was living on at the time Tythrop, however the KC said it was taken, then six months later awarded it to a lady who had recently moved into the nearby village. lol
So I needed to have a rethink. I had a large garden and every morning in the summer a large vixen would come and sit on the end of the garden path, so my affix became Foxpath. My daughter wants to apply for Kiteswood as we live near a red kite release site.

A friend of mine, looked into old place names for her village, since many towns and villages over the centuries have changed their names. My own village for example was originally called Headdas Homestead, then changed to Nedreham and is now Haddenham.

Another friend researching local history discovered there had been a chapel where her house was now built and took that as part of her affix, and combined it with a feature nearby like wood or river or field etc... Many affixes have come about by combining local features, for example Glidesdown, (a well known affix) comes from the location and the activity there, gliding and Dunstable Downs.

One very well known affix is Emanon in flatcoated retrievers, this affix came about because Peggy tells us she could not think of a name to use as her affix. So the words 'no name' were reversed and joined together to become Emanon!

I just took the first three letters from my name and four letters from my sons name and used that.  I was granted my first choice.  I think the more unusual the choice the more chance you have of getting it.

Thanx for all the tips and ideas, i currently have a list of a few possibilities but havent yet found one that stands out.

hi Michelle, Ive just recently been granted my affix and I was very lucky to have the first one with the original spelling accepted. I am now in the process of adding it to my dogs name,very exciting stuff lol.
My affix came from the first part of the mothers name and the last part of the fathers name of my bitch plus the hungarian word for junior(and  its  also a friends father who sadly passed aways nickname) added at the end.
Perhaps you could try this to help see if you come up with anything.
It will be goodto know what you finally settle on cos I love knowing how people come up with their affix'x so have found this thread interesting.

It took me loads of attempts! I tried using words/names I thought would be slightly unusual, but sound good with the rest of a kennel name, or would be associated with my breed, but after about 50 failed attempts, I decided to try and use letters of the alphabet that weren't used quite so much, and came up with Q U O J A ;-) no problem with that one!!

Mibne is part of my name BARBara and my foundation bitches pet name ELKA

Mine is the first part of an old motorcycle make OH and I had loads of fun on as teenagers VELL (Velocette) and part of our breeds name BERN 
My Affix with ex-oh was the silly names we called our first GSD's Zar (Tzar) and Taz (Tara) hence Zartaz. Liked the name loads just hate the ex-oh!!!!
Aileen

> Mine is the first part of an old motorcycle make OH and I had loads of fun on as teenagers VELL (Velocette) and part of our breeds name BERN 

The only thing to be wary about if you use a part of your breeds name and then change breeds you could have a problem. One of my friends chose the affix Riscorgis made up from Risborough where she lived and corgis which were her breed at that time. She later had gundogs and no corgis.

Well we have submitted the form online today, they are apparantly about a week behind at the moment so could be 2 weeks before we hear anything back, will let you all know what we get, hoping we get first choice but i guess you never know

We had our first choice,but as previously mentioned the more unusual the more likely you are of getting your choice.As we have sled dogs everything associated with snow has been taken - so we put our first choice into Cornish and ended up with Cornwall snow dogs.O.H is very proud of his Cornish roots and even bought a gold and black van!!!However we seem to be known as the peeps with the unprenouncable kennel name lol.Good luck.

Our breeder tried to use the name of the popular tourist area her kennel is in for her name but it was taken many times over.  She finally turned instead to the latin name of her favourite local wildflower (her OH is a naturalist).  That worked but I always find it a bit strange as her name has a spanish ring to it and the dogs are Labs.

I second googling whatever you put down as a choice, especially if you make something up.  You never know what odd application your made up name might have.  If I had done that when naming my own pup perhaps I would not have run into problems with it also being a kennel name for someone else.

When I chose my Affix in 1982 I thought of mixing  a combination of names but my father in law was visiting one day and across the road from our house was a   tiny   wood called   The  Fullwell so he said why not use that and I applied and got it.

Polly said :

The only thing to be wary about if you use a part of your breeds name and then change breeds you could have a problem

Too True. I think my affix Foxbriar suits my main breed Malinois. A combination of Fox as Malinois look like little foxes when small and the Briar Rose, pretty but with thorns.
But having just got Boston Terriers as well I am not sure it suits them so well.

Lots of lovely affixes I've seen over the years are local landmarks and pretty places near where the breeder lives.
A favourite holiday place or nostalgic village or town maybe.

Mine is named after a Dutch warmblood (horse) I had in the 70's and was my first and only choice.

mine is made up from my dads name who i lost to cancer in 1998 and the last part of my surname, my dad was mad about dogs and i thought it would be a lovely way to connect him to all our dogs now and in the future. My house name is also my affix too so my dads name is on the gate :)

The only thing to be wary about if you use a part of your breeds name and then change breeds you could have a problem.

With hindsight, if I could go back, I'd probably pick something without breeds in -my affix being Goldmali (Golden + Malinois) and I'm no longer in Goldens (although I'll always have a pet one and do still have one). On the other hand I now have Papillons so they're not in it at all. But there are plenty similar affixes about just picked from breeds the person liked but they didn't necessarily breed more than one of them. Two friends of mine that spring to mind being Spinillons (Spinone + Papillon), who no longer has Spinone, and Belpetilon (Belgian+ Whippet + Papillon) that do not have Whippets. But it's all still just made up words so I don't think it matters. (Except this year, out of the blue, if you Google for Goldmali it no longer ONLY comes up with my show results, my website etc, it also comes up with a lot of websites selling GOLD from some small country called Mali!!!)

I really wanted Maligold but that was rejected along with my second choice of Malingold.

Thats lovely Mandy, though if i tried that it would sound very similar to Christmas.. Now that i can't go for...

How long on average does it take for them to write to you with the one they've 'granted'?

Well we heard this morning, we've got our first choice..................whooohooooo sooo happy :o)