Do you ever call your doodle 'Baby Doodle', 'Baby Dood', 'Insert name here Doodle', etc.? I find myself doing things like this a lot. Do you ever do this or do you always go by their names?
I have many... Puppy-girl is most often used... my love is another, Tori-girl, and when she's not behaving so well - which in the beginning was a lot... - I gave her a middle name - 'cause I REALLY NEEDED it - so we called her Tori-Marie!
Actually we get confused with our dog names - like my mother used to get confused with her kid's names. We thought it would be easy to remember Groucho and Harpo, but we get confused and are constantly talking about Hondo (and sometimes even Bruno), but between us, it is okay. We know which dog we are talking about. Nicknames? We call them anything that comes to mind and they don't seem to care.
We always call Cody, "Baby" or "Cute Baby". We thought that he may think that Baby was his real name but he seems to respond to Cody. We just can't resist since he is such a crazy fluffy baby!