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Like you did that Brad. The history and pics whenever we can get them are so interesting. Love to see how form and style change - for better or for worse who can say?

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I'm just getting my breath back after considering what $100.00 would represent in today's dollars!   Looks like that ad is around the turn of the century so....!!!

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19 hours ago, bradl said:

 

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I have always wondered how they come up with these elaborate names. Is this a Cairn specific thing or do all AKC registered champions of any breed have this type of naming? Sassy has a name which is AM. CH. THARRBARR LITE MY FIRE ZOMERHOF.

 

 

 

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Sassy Jan 22, 2005

 

AM. CH. THARRBARR LITE MY FIRE ZOMERHOF

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Well I used to own a horse whose registered name was, Zips my Pop too. He came with that handle....I just called him Pappy. :P

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Most breeders who are active within the breed ask that their kennel affix be part of the registered name. (Less necessary for dogs who will *never* be shown, but as a general request often even then.)

Then many have "themes" for their litters. This helps them remember siblings and parents decades later. While most allow the owner to pick any name they want beyond including the kennel name most people try to keep to the litter theme.

For example I did not like the name Dundee had at the breeder in his baseball litter (Nolan Ryan … nothing against NR personally) so I went with Kinloch's Intentional Walk at Robinsend. His sisters were named after League of Their Own characters. His mother's name is "Upper Deck" while his father is part of a golf course theme (Royal Troon).

Call names (their everyday names) are *often* a play on part of the registered name, although not always.  The Westminster Scottie Peggy Sue was named Gaelforce PostScript; postcript (a printing language) is often abbreviated PS; thus the breeder can "reconstruct" the registered name from the call name by the initials PS. Just one example. 

Dundee is just a name we liked and has nothing to do with the litter theme. Echo on the other hand was named "A Bit of a Thrill" after her father, Thrill of the Chase and we felt that she looked enough like him as a wee pup to be an Echo. And so it goes :) 

I'm often amazed at how much information the old-time breeders are able to keep in their heads including things like littermates and relatives.

"Oh, Dora was in the Explorer litter. I wonder how her brother Lewis is doing... I saw Clark again just last week!" etc. 

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19 hours ago, Idaho Cairns said:

...considering what $100.00 would represent in today's dollars!   Looks like that ad is around the turn of the century so....!!!

Idaho - Info that accompanied the ad online gave the date as 1924, although I do agree that the dress style looks closer to the turn of that century, I'll leave it to the Fashion Police to determine. (Perhaps Mrs. Burnett dug up an " old" photo of herself to use in the ad).?

* PK, can you give us your best guess as to what one hundred 1924 dollars might be in today's money? Just curious!?

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Yes Brad that's how it was for us. With our dogs their call name could be anything the owners' wanted. Registered name is what we gave them. We had our kennel name and then four letters which identified the parents to us but which sometimes looked  like nonsense then a 'regular' name which was also in a certain pattern we used. I was fairly good at holding history in my head. My partner was phenomenal holding four generations of each of our dogs in his head with ease. Not all the pups' owners stayed in touch but the identification often told us who they were and what they were doing and alerted us for future breedings of ours and other peoples.

 

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brad's right. no need to guess. economists make these conversions all the time and they are all over the internet. but of course they are notional --the value of the dollar fluctuates day to day, so a "1924" or "1900" value is just the agreed estimate, which is a general kind of thing. 

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4 hours ago, pkcrossley said:

brad's right...the value of the dollar fluctuates day to day, so a "1924" or "1900" value is just the agreed estimate, which is a general kind of thing. 

To put it another way... (and borrow from a credit card commercial)...

The value of a cairn terrier? Priceless! :D

P.S. In the Ad submitted by Brad, Mrs. Burnett mentions her stud dogs, and calls the females, "Matrons". I've never seen this word used before. Was Mrs. Burnett too modest to use the "B" word?:o Or perhaps she was protecting the tender ears of her young son, Richard!:blush:

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