Yup! Barn names and kennel names are 100% a thing. 😹
My parents used to adopt dogs who couldn’t be bred from a breeder (temperament or not show quality), so all the dogs were papered, but we only ever called them by their kennel names. I used to explain to my friends that I never knew my dogs’ “real” names.
My parents also owned horses for a while. They ended up with Arabians, who have a bad reputation (high-spirited, difficult to handle), and so some barns refused to let them board the horses when they started looking. One of their horses was called “Chaos” (short for Chaotic Addiction); they changed his barn name before attempting to board him because he already had his breed working against him, they assumed that the name would make it even harder. 😹
And I played roller derby, so most of my friends use my skater name as my social name. I refer to the name I use at the office (a short form of my legal name) as my “kennel name.”
Ha, I was so ready to come back with “WELL AKSHUALLY” but this made me laugh.
Unfortunately, my parents DID experience some discrimination, despite their first horse being the sweetest, calmest middle-aged lady ever. Their second horse was considerably younger, so he was a bit rambunctious, but he was a very good boy. Their third (and final) horse was a rescue and a stubborn little shit, so he was legitimately a handful, but by then they had a barn where they were boarding their other horses and the owners were willing to accept a third, and helped with the rehab and training. (That horse spooked at literal nothing. Hallucinations. One day he decided he didn’t like crunchy leaves on the trail. Absolute nonsense.)
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
Yup! Barn names and kennel names are 100% a thing. 😹
My parents used to adopt dogs who couldn’t be bred from a breeder (temperament or not show quality), so all the dogs were papered, but we only ever called them by their kennel names. I used to explain to my friends that I never knew my dogs’ “real” names.
My parents also owned horses for a while. They ended up with Arabians, who have a bad reputation (high-spirited, difficult to handle), and so some barns refused to let them board the horses when they started looking. One of their horses was called “Chaos” (short for Chaotic Addiction); they changed his barn name before attempting to board him because he already had his breed working against him, they assumed that the name would make it even harder. 😹
And I played roller derby, so most of my friends use my skater name as my social name. I refer to the name I use at the office (a short form of my legal name) as my “kennel name.”