I've been compiling a list of the names I call my dog (because what else do you do at 6am on a Sunday morning?!) and I wonder if there are an excessive number or if it's normal among dotty dog owners. Unless I'm forgetting any there are 18. I get most of them in every day, some only once or twice a week but regularly enough I think. I haven't even counted any that are hybrids with her actual name.