Nice dog MJ. I'm sure we are going to be hearing alot more about your new buddy. I can see the reports coming in from this year's fluke season:

Got my new buddy last year and I love my pound dog. She is a great car rider and very very potty trained. One thing I learned is when you take them outside go to the same spot and they will get used to that being their bathroom.
I've been able to teach my pound dog:
sit
howdy
high-five
lay down
lay all the way down (head too LOL)
speak
My biggest complaint is she gets stupid hyper whenever she sees someone new. My daughter just got a new hamster and she the dog goes nuts over it. She'll sit and whine beside the cage just hoping it will come out of its house so she can see it. Here she is monitoring the hamster's activities: