We've seen references to use a individual sub-contact type (CiviCRM for animal rescue charity) 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.
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.
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.
