my partner susan has a theory, your dog tends to obey its name. if you have a dog named ranger or rover, that might be a great name, but your dog will not like to come home when you call it. i propose naming a new dog we were getting chewie, she said no, the dog will fulfill that destiny. i got shot down for houdini because he would slip his collar. the name dewey, i didn't expect her to shoot that down. what could be wrong, no, dewey famous for losing. every third person our dog meets will be thinking dewey defeats truman. except dewey didn't. thomas dewey was favored to beat harry truman in 1948. he did not. that is president truman looking ecstatic, holding a copy of the