Moondoggie is pretty much my friend Hambone's idea. We were sitting around one night talking about Spook (and this must've been 10 years ago) and Hambone says to me, "Dude, he needs a friend. Someone who is almost his complete opposite, but not quite."
And thus, Moondoggie was born.
Hambone's a surfer from way back, so the name (taken from Gidget movies) was a given. He originally proposed it, but said, "No...every other surfer on the beach calls himself 'Moondoggie'!" Well, of course that's the perfect name for a werewolf surfer. It's descriptive yet fairly generic and anonymous! So it stuck.
As for ol'Moondog in wolf form...
you guys have already seen that. I just didn't mention who that was at the time--it was an in-joke between Hambone and me.
