Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Room To Name
I am so excited about the policy change going into effect on July 1, 2006. We will now be able to name our rabbits longer names - and get it all on the registration certificate! Yeah!
Currently, we are limited to 22 characters (letters and punctuation, but not spaces, as I understand it). I first ran into this rule when I registered The Nature Trail's Mercedes. Her name is one letter too long. I had to register her as Nature Trail's Mercedes. And I decided right then to name all of my rabbits with names seven letters or fewer in length.
But now, we have 8 more letters and/or characters to play with! I will be changing Mercedes' name for certain. While we will not be allowed to change names on existing rabbits, we can add to the existing name or make corrections (see page 15 of the current Domestic Rabbit - middle column - #2). I should be able to add the "The" back to her name for the sake of her offspring and descendent's registrations.
So, in honor of the change, I've named my most recent kits (The Nature Trail's Antony x GC The Nature Trail's May):
Currently, we are limited to 22 characters (letters and punctuation, but not spaces, as I understand it). I first ran into this rule when I registered The Nature Trail's Mercedes. Her name is one letter too long. I had to register her as Nature Trail's Mercedes. And I decided right then to name all of my rabbits with names seven letters or fewer in length.
But now, we have 8 more letters and/or characters to play with! I will be changing Mercedes' name for certain. While we will not be allowed to change names on existing rabbits, we can add to the existing name or make corrections (see page 15 of the current Domestic Rabbit - middle column - #2). I should be able to add the "The" back to her name for the sake of her offspring and descendent's registrations.
So, in honor of the change, I've named my most recent kits (The Nature Trail's Antony x GC The Nature Trail's May):
- The Nature Trail's Fiddlesticks
- The Nature Trail's Prince William
- The Nature Trail's Imagination
You can expect some polysyllabic expressions of exuberance on my part for say, oh, the next 50 kits or so. I'm loving it!
What's next? Nebuchadnezzar? Rumplestiltskin? Skimbleshanks? Rumpelteazer? Little Red Riding Hood?
No Red - it's still too long!
Laurie Stroupe T
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