I remember when I got my first dog, my aunt told me to consider how I'd feel standing at the back door yelling the dog's name. Apparently she's not happy with the name decision she and her daugher came up with when she has to yell it!
How true!!! When we adopted our 3 year old mastiff from the pound, we had the hardest time picking out a name for him - obviously he was used to his old name and wouldn't repsond to any of the names we picked out. One day, my daughter happened to say the word stinky, and wouldn't you know, he responded. So "Stinky" is what we eventually ended up calling him. - Cathy