My real life German Shepard is named Eliska, or Ellie for short, after this woman:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C5%A1ka_Junkov%C3%A1
Eliska Junkova was a female racing driver in the 1920s that drove for Bugatti. In my head the dog will be my RL dog, and I'll just work around whatever BGS gives us.
And to an earlier post that claimed some sort of feeling of accomplishment for keeping dogmeat alive all the way though FO1 "after many many reloads", and then complains about unkillable NPC companions. Are you serious???!?!? WTF is the difference if the dog falls unconscious, or gets killed and you reload? If dog goes unconscious during a fight -NEWSFLASH- ?you can still do a reload to try again and you have proven NOTHING because you still failed the first time.