Lucy Has Arrived!

Lucy has come home!  She is adorable and friendly.  She is also a handful and a lot of work.   She came home Saturday, so it's been about 5 days.

Here's what we know so far:

We made a mistake with her crate the first night by not showing it to her and not putting it in our bedroom.   She doesn't mind going in now but still cries if someone leaves the room.  We have not left her alone yet.  When she is in the crate, she presses her body up against the grate in the front - I think about it as her trying to go through a pasta machine! 

When she sleeps, she dreams, or at least she twitches and moves a lot.

Lucy likes carrots and not dog treats.  Maybe she is reading Michael Pollan!

Lucy is a biter - we need to learn to train her better on that.

Lucy knows where to pee, most of the time.  We take her out often and she uses the little garden in front of our house.

What she does not know is where to poo - that is still something we are working on.

She went from barely eating and drinking to doing just fine with both now. 

Sometimes she likes to go for a walk, but it take a million hours because she stops to talk to every person who goes by.  She isn't too interested in other dogs - yet.  She is ok around toddlers who want to play pretty rough.

When she hears a noise, she stops moving and 'points', lifting one of her front paws and sitting entirely straight up.  She hates buses and airplanes because they are very loud.