Originally Posted by ChelseaDagger

It's not that. I don't feel like going through the legal process of a name change. She's technically a purebred Great Pyranese (i.e.: quintessential livestock guardian dog) and although she herself will be a pet for all intents and purposes, I want the option of registering her offspring for sale. Tracking her lineage will raise suspicious eyebrows for anyone tracking her offsprings' lineage-- in other words, potential buyers will wonder whether the mother is inbred (she's not). So no legal name change is in order.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.