what's in a name - Page 2

She is still breeding? That is a surprise for me since I have not seen or heard about any of her dogs for a long time, and she used to fly up here to the Northeast to show her dogs. There have been no Sunrise dogs at Sieger Shows either.

Chris

It would all depend on the dog in question.  Names do nothing for me...good or bad.  Pedigrees are only as good as each individual dog.  The dog itself would be the determining factor. 

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Shakespeare

There are plenty of breeders from countries other than Germany etc who attach teutonic sounding affixes and vom and von haus etc to their kennels.  Whatever.

A good dog is a good dog, results speak louder than names.

As for not using German commands why should anyone other than a german speaker use this language to train or work a a dog?!

I don't use german for the rest of the time I am with them so why would I use it on the competition or training ground?

If my dog was already trained in another language it is simplicity itself to make it bilingual.

thanks for the responses.  I would like to think I am pretty fair in most cases and then something crops up and I find that I am disappointed with something I thought or said or did.  I was recently talking to someone on the phone about their dog and early in the course of the conversation they mentioned the dog's registered name as "Thunder Thor's Big Boy" (It is similar but I changed it because I never asked her permission to print it).  I was almost immediately thinking "american line dog" and I kind of mentally turned off.  She came out to our house a week later (was interested in purchasing a pup) and brought Thor with her.  When he got out of the truck I wanted to faint.  He was gorgeous in conformation and even more so in temperament.  He had excellent drive and was truly a pleasure to get to know.  I told her what I had thought when she had told me his registered name and told her I owed her an apology.  she was very kind about it and laughed saying she kind of did it just to kind of be a stinker.  You guys must be a lot better than me :(  I was pretty judgmental.

thanks for all the great responses.

Lisa

I don't think I would buy a dog I planned to breed if it had a stupid, typical, mile-long American name. Call me silly, but I just don't want the stigma attached. If it wasn't too long and too ridiculous, and the dog had super bloodlines and a LOT of promise... maybe... but the chances of that happening in my life are extremely small.

The one final thing I try very hard to send my pups home with is a decent name I would be proud to see listed in a catalog at a major event. The can call him/her whatever they want around the training field and at home, but the name I gave it is the one it keeps forever.

Okay... blast away.

SS

"the next question is, if there were a dog "Rosemary's Baby" (a dog like mentioned in the beginning, great drives, good training, great health/hip certs, etc.) the only difference is THIS dog is out of "Cinnamon Snap" and "Rosemary the wonder dog" and Cinnamon's parents are "Dazzling Dancer Man" and "Flower Power" and Rosemary's parents are "Jack of no trades" and her dam is "Jill on the Hill."

If I saw a ped full of names like this I would assume it was American lines and probably skip over the add not getting to the drives of the dog anyway. If I saw the dog first before knowing the name and pedigree names, I would get over it.

The moral of the story is: don't give your dogs stupid names. Ha ha ha.

SS

shelley lol, indeed.

Well, I disagree with you, do right.  My dogs have all been trained with german commands and I will continue to do so.  There's nothing "silly" about it, for me it's a matter of tradition.