Introducing Nova!

She's home!  We are enjoying our second day at home today, after a night where no one got much sleep.  She doesn't like being confined in either a crate or an x-pen, and shrieks long and loud!  It takes me back to those first few weeks with my infant sons, when they didn't sleep more than a few hours at a time.  I wasn't good at being sleep deprived then, and I'm 30 years older now!  Fortunately, Nova is a very smart puppy and I'm confident she'll learn quickly and we will survive.
She is very food motivated, and I've had amazing success shaping a down in just the past 24 hours.  I'm looking forward to training this little girl!