I think you need to get to a certain point with Mama Murphy's visions relating to the Main Story before she'll tell you his name and it gets changed, but I'm not sure myself.
Until a certain point and dialogue with Mama Murphy he's just Dog.
Thanks for the information.
So far I think he is only useful for the missing person cases you can do.
Other than that he gets in the bloody way :P
You are right on the getting in the way.
But I have to say I never really liked DM in FO3 n dont really use him in this one. He just guards my Garage now.
For some reason I can't fully explain I do like having Dogmeat around but he does literally get in my way sometimes.
Oh, wait till you see how a human companion in the power armors gets in the way of aim. So I prefer the Dogmeat which indicates hidden goodies and is knee-tall.
[Edited by merrowind, 11/13/2015 7:50:11 PM]
For some reason I can't fully explain I do like having Dogmeat around but he does literally get in my way sometimes.
Oh, wait till you see how a human companion in the power armors gets in the way of aim. So I prefer the Dogmeat which indicates hidden goodies and is knee-tall.
[Edited by merrowind, 11/13/2015 7:50:11 PM]
That is a very good point about Dogmeat being only knee high. By the way is it possible for a companion to take damage from friendly fire in this game? And if they can are we able to turn that off or not?