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Originally Posted by Zombie
CharmedHour,
Your puppies are pretty!
Here is a dumb question I've always wanted to ask a dog show person but never had the chance to - why are the dogs named that way? How do you go about picking the name for a show dog?
I love dogs, but I've always named my dogs things like...Snert. Show dog names are intriguing to me.
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That's not a dumb question at all. Show dog breeders have what you call a "kennel name". I can be something that means something to you, like your first dog's name or even just your street name. My kennel name is "Jessarae" I got it from my first name, Jessica and my middle name, Rae. A friend of mine who also breeds papillons got her kennel name from her first name and her husbands first name. Nana and Kenny "Nanken Papillons". Another pap breeder friend used her last name, "Domino".
When naming a dog, you use your kennel name and the rest of the name up to 28 letters can be anything. My first papillon's name is champion, Wingazen A Dare For Jessarae. I got him from my friend Carol, who has the kennel name of Wingazen. She put my kennel name at the end because we both own the dog. A lot of breeders will do that if they co-own dogs or co-breed dogs. If you are the breeder of the dog, you name it and put your kennel name on it. The dogs that I have breed are:
Jessarae's Music To My Ears aka DJ
Jessarae's Just A Wish aka Gypsy
Jessarae's Celebrity Cruise aka Quest
Jessarae's Cruise Control aka Helio (owned by my friend and agility mentor)
I got DJ's name from his sire champion, Wingazen I Am All Ears and from his dam, Rhiannon Haremet's Imperial Blue. His sire being "I Am All Ears" and "Rhiannon" being my favorite song, I got "Music To My Ears". Gypsy's name, I'm sure you can figure that one out!
Quest and Helio are litter mates and their sire is champion, Joco's Moonlight Cruise (bred by Joco papillons). "Celebrity Cruise" is a cruise line company and "Quest" is a Celebrity Cruise ship.
DJ and Gypsy's grandfather (father's father) has a story behind his name. He was bred by my friend Carol (Wingazen papillons). Anyway another friend of our's, Jackie, convinced Carol that if she bred Tessa to Wizard, they could possibly get phalenes (drop eared papillons). Carol swore up and down that Tessa was not a phalene producer. After Data was born (Gypsy and DJ's grandfather) they thought his ears were going to drop but they never did and he stayed a papillon. So Jackie took the puppy and Carol said she could name him what she wanted as long as she used Carol's kennel name. So Jackie also put her kennel name (Dewdrop) in it too. She sent in the AKC papers and Carol got her copy in the mail and right in bold print it said: WINGAZEN DAMIFDEY DEWDROP