Meet our new girl

[darin]

We haven't named her yet - our name, going in, was Eva (eve-uh). But, since seeing her, the name doesn't fit for us. Still deciding...We chose from a group of three. We watched them interact with one-another, and tried experiments such as leaving one in the pen alone with our backs turned from it. We ended up with the least-energy of the pups; I won't say low energy - but she's at least medium energy. While two of the pups were up yelping or seeking attention, our pup sat quietly gnawing at a rope or chew toy. Besides nearly getting a ticket for ENTIRELY too much cute transported across county lines, the trip went well. When we got home I took puppy to the place I want her to potty. After 10 minutes or so she started wandering around the yard. I snapped a few photos, below, of her romping. When I could see puppy getting tired, I had the kids walk to the house. I made sorta kissy sounds for the pup and whistled. She looked and I turned to walk towards the house. After 20 feet I turned to see her following. I moved to her, she stopped and headed back to the field. I whistled again, she turned. Stopped, started poopin. I clapped and cheered and praised her! When she was done, I knelt and she came bounding over to me. Bringing her inside we allowed our cats to observe her through closed glass doors. While puppy was napping on my laps the larger of our two cats visited me. He sniffed a couple times and that was that. So far, No drama at introduction. Good news indeed. A few minutes ago, my daughter was holding puppy on the couch. One of our cats walked in, sat about 5 feet away on an ottoman and napped. VERY encouraging.