Show name for german shepherd?

Question

I am getting a female german shepherd for show, agility competition, and search and rescue. Her call name is Blue, so I want it to include that. She is a beautiful light tan and black. She was born in May. Any suggestions welcome

They have given me full rights to chose my own kennel name. Their dogs come from show lines, but are only used for search work. So they don't care what I call her. The mother is Cocao, the father Chase.

Dear King high and mighty, I have done my research. She is an awesome dog, the only one I would have chosen for what I want. I looked at countless shepherds and she is the best. She doesn't have the blue coat, that's just what they called her. Sure they aren't in breeding for show, but their dogs are still show worthy. They breed their pups for search and rescue and K-9 units, and I've seen the agile work of her siblings and mother. I wanted a name suggestion, not a lecture. You'll be seeing her on TV one day.

Answer 1

Blue Belle! Belle is French for pretty, and a bluebell is a beautiful blue flower.

Answer 2

What are her parent's names?

Wild Blue Yonder
Out Of The Blue
I'm Blue Da Ba Dee
Blue Bayou
Blue Suede Shoes

Answer 3

As blue is one of the colours banned in the GSD Standard, I wouldn't use Blue as a call-name. It could be included in a registered name, but as a call name it sounds like a Coon Hound or Bloodhound, not a GSD.

And I wouldn't buy a "show" pup or an "agility" pup that doesn't carry the breeder's kennel name. Every breeder I know WANTS every pup they sell for competition identified as being a worthy representative of their lines - its successes are the best advertising there is! So it ought to alarm you mightily that these people DON'T want that!!!!!!!!!

In my case I tell people the "rule" for the litter (usually that's the first letter of the call-name) and let them pick any suitable call-name that obeys that rule, but **I** register the pup with **my** kennel name plus that call-name plus another word to ensure that the name won't be rejected by NZKC for duplicating another dog's name.

Nor would I sell a pup as being ideally suited for all 3 categories you list.

Have you attended any shows and any agility trials to see just how stiff is the competition? Sure, any KC-registered pooch can enter in both, but it is depressing and very expensive to practise, enter, travel, compete, and get regularly dumped.

The situation sounds shonky to me. Do you know which Rescue Organisation they are licensed with? Have you recorded the parents' and grandparents' registered names and looked for those names in the hip & elbow dysplasia certifying places?

Or have you just naively taken the breeders' word for it that everything is fine, including why they are selling a "show quality AND agility quality" pup at 6 months old instead of at the ideal 7-11 weeks old? Anything worth running-on until it is 6 months old ought to be worth running-on until it is 15-18 months old and can be tested in such as BH or CGC. Anything run-on until 6 months old is either a left-over that no-one else wanted, or a pooch that has been tested for something important and failed that test. For what you claim to want, the only test that doesn't matter is scenting ability. (Although one of my pen-friends managed to get her legally-blind Sheltie to gain an Agility Champion title, that Sheltie trusted her owner to have arranged for there to be something to land on before she yelled whichever "Jump!" command was appropriate.)

So - - What, if anything, does the breeder guarantee IN SIGNED WRITING?

For anything I sell as show stock or breeding stock there is a guarantee that it will gain at least Breed Survey Class 2 provided it is properly raised (feeding, socialising, training). Once you know what is involved in qualifying to enter in a Breed Survey (in Germany it is called a Körung) you will realise that I need to have a lot of confidence in each such puppy's genetics!
For most of my pups the buyer gets only a pet guarantee, which is basically that it isn't incubating a virus when it leaves me (buyers are to confirm on day 7 whether they are keeping the pup or want their money back; the only pup that came back became the sire of my youngest 3 - the buyer knew he could never own that pup outright, and decided he wasn't willing to share after all) and that no vet will recommend putting it down in the first 3 years because of a genetic disease.

Sorry, nothing in your supplied data suggests that this is a pup suitable for what you say you want. Even the colour is border-line - GSDs are not supposed to have LIGHT colours, they are supposed to have RICH colours. So maybe the most appropriate "blue" name for that pooch, if you go ahead and accept her, will be "Blue Smoke".

It is most unlikely that a show-winner will be produced by a person who does not compete in conformation classes.
I'll guess that you are NAmerican. With NAmerican show winners being FAR too deep in chest, it is MOST unlikely that a show winner will have the nimbleness to succeed in Agility - it will be able to complete the course, but not quickly enough to get on-the-pegs. When it comes to Agility, the lightweight BC is the outstanding breed.

If you want expert advice, join my http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly group which has show people in several countries, agility competitors, licensed S&R people, a couple who have represented the USA at the World SchutzHund competitions, professional shepherds, GSD rescuers, a blind lass who trained her own guide dog after rescuing it, and pet owners. But look at the Home Page first, to make sure you can accept the rules.
Les P

Answer 4

Perhaps with the names of her parents:
Cocoa Chase Blue
Blue Cocoa Chase
Chasing Blue Cocoa
Blue Cocoa
Blue's Chased Cocoa (I like this one!)
Try mixing the parents's name, especially Cocoa (the mother) because:
Blue is a female, Cocoa is the mother (female), so use her name in the showname.

Hope these helped!

Answer 5

good luck! I didn't know the same GSD could succeed at all that. Advoid Hill street Blues there was a famous show GSD by that name and using it rathe gauche (like steeling thunder).

Blue Dabue
Blue Benim
Sing the blues

Answer 6

Blue Keeper

Answer 7

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Answer 8

go to http://www.pedigreedatabase.com they have some great name ideas...
join a local kennel club and start attending comformation classes..before you step into the ring with your girl have people at the class evaluate her for you.... having showlines and being from showlines is 2 different thing..most dogs you can find a champion in their pedigree if you look far enough back

Answer 9

If she has papers create something out of her background. Half the fun is thinking up the name.

Answer 10

"Blue Moon" because you may only see a blue moon once in a lifetime.