I started out many years ago with the kennel prefix "Butterfly". A few yrs ago I built my small grooming shop on my property. I call it my "shop" because it's where I do all my yorkie's grooming other than a quick butt rinse in the sink...lol.
Anyway I named my shop Dogwood Kennel because of the tons of dogwood trees around it and on my property. I used to do a bit of grooming on the side for toy-med size breeds and I would do it in my own kennel as a side job once in a while. I quickly found that it was just too much on me and my back. Keeping my gang all groomed is a job in itself and I found myself constantly in the shop, with someone's doggie and felt mine were being neglected. So I stopped doing any grooming on the side other than my close friends or family's dogs. I now just enjoy having my own little private place to groom my yorkies while listening to music.
I was surfing the net once and I ran across another "Dogwood", then another and even a "pink dogwood"
http://www.dogwoodkennel.org/index.htm
I immediately thought, I do not want to ever be mistaken for one of these people because I know nothing about them. I just didn't want to step on anyone's toes or use their name when they did have it first.
So, Butterfly Yorkies finally stuck for good. (here's my reason...they remind me of a butterfly, as they start out like little black and brown caterpillars and then blossom into a beautiful butterfly"
Well, I got a very disturbing email about 30 mins ago and is the reason I felt compelled to write this...
An anonnomys person wrote: "What are you hiding from Dogwood? People who change a kennel name are usually trying to hide their bad name and start over with a new one" since it's a hotmail address i doubt i could find out the true identity. I haven't written back. Why should I have to explain myself to such nosey, very bored people? I haven't broke the law. I haven't had any bad reports, and I have a right to make any changes that I please. My first thought was that someone was upset with me and trying to get at me. It is obvisouly someone who has known of me for a few years.
I have contracts filed away that have the heading "butterfly yorkies" at the top, signed and dated back to 1995. I placed a few puppies for a couple yrs under "dogwood" because of tax purposes with my ever so small groom business. I also sold vitamins under the same name for Nu-Vet systems as I got a small % of what I sold.
When I closed down Dogwood for good, I even made a statement explaining the change on my website and left it there for a good while. Do you think I should explain myself to this person, or maybe just give them a link to "how stuff works" so they'll have something to do!