Answers.Body: <p>Depends what you want to do with the dog contacts, but another option for your last name question would be to use a sub-type of Organization rather than Individual since that only requires a single name.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: We loose the demographics block with that which is nice because it calculates age.
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Answers.Body: <p>I'm assuming the dog doesn't have email? Then again, it's almost the year 2020. All joking aside, if the org were to register a .dog domain name (which does exist), they could assign emails for the dogs and maybe get some publicity along with it. Then last name becomes optional.</p>
  
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Body: <p>We've seen references to use a individual sub-contact type (<a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/19711/civicrm-for-animal-rescue-charity/19714#19714">CiviCRM for animal rescue charity</a>) but the issue is dogs do not have last names. Atleast, not always ;)</p>
  
  <p>So how have people handled this? Adding in a placeholder for last name is a workaround I want to avoid. I think the best situation is to disable last name only for a certain sub-contact type or add in the CID to the last name field.</p>
  
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Title: Dog as sub-contact type of individual but they have no last name
ThreadText: # Dog as sub-contact type of individual but they have no last name
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-11)
  
  We've seen references to use a individual sub-contact type ([CiviCRM for animal rescue charity](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/19711/civicrm-for-animal-rescue-charity/19714#19714)) but the issue is dogs do not have last names. Atleast, not always ;)
  
  So how have people handled this? Adding in a placeholder for last name is a workaround I want to avoid. I think the best situation is to disable last name only for a certain sub-contact type or add in the CID to the last name field.
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-11-12. Score: 2
  
  Depends what you want to do with the dog contacts, but another option for your last name question would be to use a sub-type of Organization rather than Individual since that only requires a single name.
  
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  > **username_0**: We loose the demographics block with that which is nice because it calculates age.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-11-11. Score: 1
  
  I'm assuming the dog doesn't have email? Then again, it's almost the year 2020. All joking aside, if the org were to register a .dog domain name (which does exist), they could assign emails for the dogs and maybe get some publicity along with it. Then last name becomes optional.
  
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