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in every pedigree are short and concise. 

 Would the following names appeal any more 

 forcibly to breeders if each had a syllable or 

 two more and a prefix or suffix: Duke, 

 Rhoebe, Dan, Nellie, Leicester, Dart, Rake, 

 Fanny, Lit, Clip, Petrel, Druid, Ponto, Moll, 

 Bang, Bow, Drake, Sefton, Mike, Priam, 

 Croxteth, Jingo, Hops et al. 



A field trial winner or stud dog which has a 

 good reputation, with a name of three or four 

 words containing twenty or more letters, is at 

 a positive disadvantage. His name means noth- 

 ing, stands for nothing and is hard to remem- 

 ber and frequently confounded. His record 

 and individuality are lost in the family connec- 

 tions. Give your dog a name of one word with 

 as few syllables as possible. If necessary to 

 use a prefix, use a short one or your own name 

 to distinguish your dog from some other dog 

 already registered. 



Gladstone and Count Noble won fiel.d trials 

 because they were good dogs, but their names 

 alone never carried one of their descendants 

 into the second series, and they have had sons 

 and daughters which were probably as great 

 as they with the single exception that they were 

 descendants and not ancestors. No particular 

 fertility of mind is necessary to produce an 

 original name for a dog. Gladstone is not the 

 only statesman a dog could be named after, 



