What's up with these weird names, huh?
You might be wondering why I'm tagging some posts with weird names like "Roman Alleys" or "Azerbaijani Alley Persians."
Well, I decided I liked pedigrees to actually have names rather than the gibberish I/the community liked to use "a1" "AbcD" "gd5". The gibberish is great for helping keep track of where you are in the breeding project, especially when we were breeding one at a time and having to go through the whole fall in love-heart announce-gestation-infant, etc. But with Batch breeding making things easier and faster, I wanted to use real names and words.
First I started with the Locations dalis. First gen is all A place names, second gen is all B place names. Etc. I have plans for a Locations A-H line, a Locations I-P line, and a Locations Q-Z line. But what about all the other lines and breeds I want to breed?
So I went to my favorite name website, BehindtheName and voila! A lot of names easily sortable in multiple ways. I decided to pick names by usage or culture.
Did you know, it takes 31 names to get a full pedigree on a 5th gen pet? 16 first gens, 8 second gens, 4 third gens, 2 fourth gens, and 1 fifth gen.
Eventually, I think I'll make posts about each line and link them in my sitemap. Until then, here's the list of groups of names I've used so far:
Roman Alleys
Azerbaijani / Uzbek Alley Persians
Danish Great Danes
Song Title Aussies
French Papillons (Uses Blackmist's Plume-tailed Papillons OW)
English Old Line REWORKED
Scottish Snowshoes Scotties (A Wood Panel Rescue Selective Breed)
Old Norse Maine Coons
Yiddish Maine Coons
Old Celtic Calicos
Frisian Calicos (uses Sharon's tricolor spotted Calico OW)
Persian Persians
Thai Siameses
Russian Russian Blues
Archangel Russian Blues
Malayalam Tabby Persians
Locations A-H
Locations I-P
Locations Q-Z
Xhosa Dalis (uses Arashmaharr's liver-spotted dali OW)
Gee, I've been a busy breeding bee, haven't I?
The entire process goes much faster when I have the names already picked out too. Have a sample of my spreadsheet. Tumblr will probably kill the quality until it's unreadable, unfortunately.
I've been calling these "mini" lines since my goal wasn't always 7th gen petz at the end (most of the time I go for 5th or 6th gens). They aren't that "mini" though.