How we choose names for our puppies

Pedigree names of puppies from our litters are built from "surname", i.e. kennel name, written in front of dog's name, which can be already his/her call name, but just up to 5 signs long (including space) and starting on the same letter for puppies from the same litter. We encourage new owners to choose call names, but we have to know that selected name before the breeding referee comes for a visit, because we have to know all pedigree names for the whole litter by that time, so that puppies' pedigrees can be made. The best is off course, that the names are chosen before puppies are born.

Name of the kennel is "Praetorium Latobicorum's", which means Trebnje's. It comes from 1st name for city Trebnje, i.e. Praetorium Latobicorum. Because of the length of the city's old name and because of the limitation of the number of letters in the pedigree names, we used English expression of "belonging" instead of Slovene, i.e. 's instead of ski/ska, not to loose even more signs in dogs' names. Choice of the 1st letter from the Slovene alphabet depends on the breed and on the "original" female, i.e. female we bred from in our kennel but was not born in our kennel:

1. Vowels (CBR after Chessy): a, e, i, o, u
2. Consonants:

• Sonorants (NSDTR after Pretty): m, n, r, l, v, j
• Voiced obstruents (NSDTR after Gea): b, d, g, z, ž
• Voiceless obstruents (CCR after Heidi): c, č, f, h, k, p, s, š, t

Choice of the 1st letter has always some special meaning for us:

• D-litter is after naturalist Charles Darwin, who contributed a lot to the science of evolution (breeding is closely "related" to evolution); due to him being English, puppies got English names: girls Daisy, Di Di (after Dee Dee, but due to the limitation of the signs in puppies' names, her name was made "Slovene") and Duffy, boys Dusty and Dylan
• H-litter is after Japanese word Haru, meaning spring (new beginning, which birth is) and is also used as male name; because the word haru is Japanese, all boys got Japanese names, while girls got old German, Greek, Chinese and English name: boys Haru, Hideo and Hiro, girls Halma, Hera, Haibo and Hope
• L-litter after poem Lorelei by Heinrich Heine, talking about golden-hair girl whose beauty killed numerous sailors (tollers are "golden" colour); due to author of the poem being German, we were searching for names that sounded German: girls Lira and Lola, boys Lord (English), Luce (Italian, meaning light), Lev (Slovene-Slavic after lion cub, because Lev looked just like one, and after Lev Tolstoj) and Låm (city in Sweden)
• G-litter after peaceful antiwar activist Mahamatha Gandhi, to calm down the "state in the world"; puppies got name from name Ghandi or the name itself means sth "more" (glory, grace): girls Glory, Grace and  Ganda, boy Grand
• R-litter will get the name after gemstone ruby, which is reddish "like" tollers

Example of the name: "Praetorium Latobicorum's Daisy", who we call "Daisy" and is in Slovene "trebanjska marjetica". Because her mother is Gea, the 1st letter of her name was selected from voiced obstruents, same was with the 1st letter of Daisy's litter and the whole line after Gea.

Kako izberemo prve črke v imenih mladičkov naših legel

Rodovniška imena mladičkov naših legel so sestavljena iz "priimka", tj. imena psarne, ki se piše spredaj, ter lahko že kar klicnega imena, ki je dolgo do 5 znakov (vključno s presledkom) in se za mladičke iz istega legla začne na isto črko. Slednje ime si lahko izbere nov lastnik sam, s tem, da nam mora sporočiti izbrano ime do obiska vzrejnega referenta, ko morajo biti rodovniška imena že pripravljena za nadaljno birokracijo. Najbolje je seveda, da je ime izbrano še pred rojstvom mladičkov.

Ime psarne je "Praetorium Latobicorum's", kar pomeni "trebanjski/trebanjska". Izhaja iz prvega imena kraja Trebnje, tj. Praetorium Latobicorum. Ker je ime tako dolgo in ker je omejitev števila črk v rodovniškem imenu, smo namesto slovenskega izraza za "pripadnost" uporabili angleško različico, tj. 's, in na tak način ne izgubili dodatnih črk v imenu psa. Izbira prve črke iz slovenskega jezika pa zavisi od pasme oz. celo od "izvorne" psičke, tj. psičke, ki je imela mladičke v naši psarni, a ona sama ni bila vzrejena v naši psarni:

1. samoglasniki (CBR po Chessy): a, e, i, o, u
2. soglasniki:

• zvočniki (NSDTR po Pretty): m, n, r, l, v, j
• zveneči nezvočniki (NSDTR po Gei): b, d, g, z, ž
• nezveneči nezvočniki (CCR po Heidi): c, č, f, h, k, p, s, š, t

Izbira prve črke ima za nas vedno tudi nek pomen:

• D-leglo po naravoslovcu Charles-u Darwin-u, ki je največ prispeval k znanosti o evoluciji (s tem je vzreja globoko povezana); ker je bil Darwin Anglež, je imelo leglo angleška imena: deklice Daisy, Di Di (po Dee Dee, a ker smo omejeni s številom črk, je bilo njeno ime poslovenjeno) in Duffy, fantka Dusty in Dylan
• H-leglo po japosnki besedi Haru, ki pomeni pomlad (nov začetek, kar rojstvo je) in se uporablja tudi kot moško ime; ker je beseda japonska, so imeli vsi samčki v leglu prava japonska imena, samičke pa staro nemško, grško, kitajsko in angleško ime: fantki Haru, Hideo in Hiro, deklice Halma, Hera, Haibo in Hope
• L-leglo po pesmi Lorelei avtorja Heinrich-a Heine, ki govori o zlatolasi lepotici, ki je s svojo lepoto pogubljala mornaje (tollerčki so lepi kužki "zlate" barve); ker je avtor Nemec, smo za mladičke iskali bolj nemško zveneča imena: deklici Lira in Lola, fantki Lord (angleško), Luce (italijansko, pomeni luč), Lev (slovensko-slovansko po levjem mladičku, kateremu je bil podoben ter po Lev-u Tolstoj-u) in Låm (švedski kraj)
• G-leglo po miroljubnem protivojnem aktivistu Mahamatha Gandhi-ju, da bi se "umirilo stanje v svetu"; mladički so dobili ime iz besede Ghandi ali pa samo ime pomeni nekaj "več" (slava, milina-ljubkost): deklice Glory, Grace in Ganda, fantek Grand
• R-leglo bo dobilo ime po dragem kamnu rubin-u, ki je rdečkaste barve "kot" tollerčki

Primer imena: "Praetorium Latobicorum's Daisy", ki jo kličemo "Daisy" in bi po slovensko bila "trebanjska marjetica". Ker je njena mama Gea, je bila izbira prve črke med zvenečimi nezvočniki, enako je bilo v primeru njenega legla in celotne linije po Gei.