From naming your kennel business to naming your puppy, names are a recognition of a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, along with a lot of money, time, and creativity on behalf of those dedicated to producing not just puppies for profit, but their own line or legacy of dogs bred with purpose. A name is a calling card, a logo in of itself, and a company brand of its own. So it is very important that when one uses it that it is done responsibly and with integrity. It is also important that when others have use of it, that they also treat is with the respect due as it represents not only their breeder and the dog that that they bought, but also all of the dogs that came before and will come for many years after. All of our litters come "pre-named" with their AKC registered names starting with our kennel prefix of Fenloch. The litters are theme based, past litters have been types of trees such as: Fenloch Rowan and Fenloch Acacia, or our current litter which are types of shore birds. We have also used line names: taking parts of or themes from the parents of the litters. We usually implement that form when adding new dogs to our kennel from other kennels. It is a tribute to those dogs that came before and to their kennel owners. An example of this is our matriarch: Fenloch Black Widow "Ninja". Her dam is Phantomwoods Brown Recluse "Bitzy". So we continued with the spider theme. Ninja's sire is Priormeadows Samurai "Scruffy" so we thought we would honor his name with Ninja's call name keeping to the "warrior" names. Another example is one of our stud dogs, Ridge Runner Ruffian at Fenloch "Sam". The breeder graciously stated that we did not have to add their Ridge Runner kennel name to his registered name but we wanted to give honor to where honor was due. It isn't just about name recognition and self advertising. We started naming all of our pups that we produce because so many people that bought our dogs were not even sending in the puppy registration papers to officially name their new dogs. Often coming back years later stating that they forgot and lost the paperwork. It was also becoming apparent that the new owners were not following the procedure required by us in order to change the status of their pups from limited to full registration with breeding rights. The simple requirements were to have their pup registered by 6 months of age and to do the necessary health clearances, sending me proof that they were done so that I could send in the paperwork for the change. We had so many coming to us saying that they had a litter of puppies and were trying to register them with AKC and finding out that their dog itself was not registered or registered with Limited registration only. By completing the registration process (and paying for all of it!) with AKC, and with the micro chip and microchip registry AKC ReUnite, we know that each and every pup is correctly registered, permanently identified, and all paperwork for health testing is tied to that name and chip number for life. Due to this, we can easily look for testing results by simply typing in our Fenloch prefix instead of having to try to track down many varied and obscure names. It is also easier for us to keep track of entire litters with the themed names, whether in sporting venues, titles, health records on OFA, produced litters, etc...as well as making sure that any dog listed on craigslist or other dubious source is or is not one of "ours". If our new clients have a kennel of their own we do offer to add their kennel name onto the end of their registered name, and example of this is: Fenloch Starling at Oahe. And obviously for those concerned that they do not get to name their new pup, we leave the naming of the "call name" of the pup is entirely up to the new owners. Any puppy call names given by us is entirely temporary just to differentiate between pups in the little as after a certain point you have to stop calling them all "pup-pup" ! So that is the reason we name our pups. And why we will continue to name each and every one hence forth. And it is an honor to us for you to consider owning a Fenloch dog as well.
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