I raise most all my own dogs from pups. The pups that go too their new owners I try to keep tabs on so I can tell what is going on with my bloodlines, so when some dogs undoubtly change hands over the years it's hard to keep up with sometimes but something I started doing is naming the dogs on "themes" per litter, the new owners can name them as they please but I explain why I am doing it and most get into the "theme" with me. That way if later somebody tells me the name of the dog, I know what litter it came from, well atleast until the rest of my memory starts failing
I got the idea from my mother, she used to raise, train and show dogs when I was growing up, and she would do alphabet theme and each litters registerd name always started with the same letter.
here are some examples:
litter - "Gambling" - Joker, Deuce, Lotto, Texas Rose, Ace, Black Jack
Litter - "Cleaners"- Comet, Clorox
Litter- "Trucks"- Chevy, Dodge
litter- "Disney movie characters"- Tarzan, Mowgli, Mater, Copper, Cheif, Balleu, this litter is only 4 weeks so names are not set yet, but these are some of the choices
here are some others that weren't in themes
Captain
Lucy
Cotton
Smoochy
Titus Pullo
Xerox - Dads name is "Rock" & mommas name is "Zena" so combined is "Zee-Rocks"
Rolee from his momma is Jo-Lee
Nugget
Sherry
Roo
Buzzard
Earl -female
Happy
Nasty
Rooter Scooter
