The dogs at the Westminster Kennel Club show have names that could make a random password generator cry uncle. But those long, confounding-sounding appellations are actually packed with show-dog information. Clumps of capital letters at the beginning and sometimes the end signify the dogs’ achievements in various sports.
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Clumps of capital letters at the beginning, and sometimes also the end, signify the dogs’ achievements in various sports. “GCHG” and “CH,” for example, denote various levels of championship in the traditional, breed-by-breed judging. The portmanteau words and puzzling phrases in registered names are partly meant to avoid duplication with other dogs in registries that go back over a century.
GCH CH Aberdeen’s Zoltar RN BN-V — just Zoltar, to his friends — has owners who appreciate humor, too. For one thing, they share their Los Angeles-area home with a shaggy, clownish, 120-pound otterhound who likes to cuddle.
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