Call him whatever you want, my dog will come. You could call him Rumpelstiltskin, he'd come up with tail a-wagging, expecting you to pet him.
You can call him a hot dog too. If I take him down to the creek he'll go wading in it, but I bought a watering trough to fill up with water for him to lie in when it's hot and he avoids it like the plague. Dumb dog.