Due to our upcoming camping trip, we had to find Buddy a boarding place and he had to have a temperament test.  So after the boys’ doctor appt, I took Buddy to the boarding place.  It was the first time for Buddy to be in my car; I think both of us were a bit nervous.  When we arrived at the place, Buddy was excited and was majorly greeting the trainer.  Then the trainer took him into the big dog boarding room and turned on the TV for me to watch.  Inside the boarding room, the trainer slowly took other doggies out from the crates and slowly introduced Buddy to more dogs.  Buddy was totally nervous; he kept running away from other dogs and staying around the trainer.  It was nervous for me to watch Buddy as well; this experience reminded me of the first days when the boys started daycare.  Buddy was inside the room for probably 20 minutes.  When the trainer returned with Buddy, he told me that Buddy was very shy and did not know how to socialize very well yet.  He recommended Buddy spending a full day to acclimate.

   We returned the next day; I dropped Buddy at 8:30 for a full day before I took the boys to the beach.  During the day, Stuart and I could watch on a cam to see how Buddy was doing.  He started out the day pretty much similar to the testing time, shy and ran away a lot.  Later on the day, we saw slight improvement; Buddy did not seem to run away as much.  When I picked up Buddy up, the staff suggested that Buddy had another trial day.  Buddy was tired the rest of the day after all these excitement.