I use my dog's name to get his attention only. There are times that he'll hunt hard enough or be burried up and not hear a command so a quick shout of his name gets his mind on what I'm telling him. He hunts as hard as any dog I've seen, but he's still a pup at only a year and a half. The training collar has pretty well transferred to the attention getter at this point.
As to the naming convention, my son wanted to name him Truck. I couldn't really go with that, so we chose Duke. Short name with an attention getting hard consonant. When it came to his "paper name", Duke-N-Truck is in there. He's a dark yellow lab, and the name seems fitting.
