Since I breed other rodents besides gerbils, I dont use a "clan" for "kennel" I use "rodentry".   Mine is "6th happiness rodentry".  Its just like a kennel or cattery name and identifies your rodentry/kennel/caviary/clan/etc as where the animal came from.
The proper use is to use your kennel name (or its initials) as a prefix when you BRED the animal, and as a suffic when you OWN the animal but soemoen else bred it.  For example:
 
If I buy a critter named "mingaling" that Ravens Heart Rattery bred, it is named Raven'sHeart MingaLing of 6Th Happiness (or for short, RHR MingaLing of 6H).  I then bred mingaling to patbert and had babies born in my rodentry.  These rats are now all 6H __name___.  So If I place one, named Mingson, back to LeeAnn, it will be Sixth Happiness Mingson of Ravens Heart or 6H Mingson of RHR.  Abbreviatiosn are important to have because its really hard to fit the full names on pedigrees.
 
AG
 
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:06 PM
Subject: clan

I notice alot of gerbil people have a gerbil clan name.  Is clan the name for a gerbil family group or colony?
 

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