Trouble is Geoff, even if you give the dog a two syllable name it tends to get shortened to one anyway. I don't subscribe to the theory that you need one syllable commands anyway. I think dogs understand quite a large human vocabulary and it isn't, as some people say, the sound of the word rather than the word itself. Our last dogs had a three syllable command.."Piano". That's sounds quite posh, but we weren't telling them to be quiet. Their bed was under the piano. We also had the command "Hoover" which we used if anyone spilt anything on the floor and we wanted them to clean it up!

Love Lynne