Day 1: Saying goodbye to Momma
We got Finster on Jan 2nd 2006 in Bruceton Mills WV, where he was born on October 31st. His first 5 hours with us was spent in a crate riding in the car to NY. He did great. No accidents! We stopped many times to let him pee. We also had no food for the poor thing until we got home. When we got him home we took him to his new house in the basement. We let him play around down there, and pee all over, probably 7-8 times, egads. At this point we were ready to ship him back to WV. He wasn't crate trained yet so he didn't take to that very well. He whined and barked continuously. We took him out a bunch to pee and play. At bed time I put him in his crate and laid down in the basement with him on a carpet remnant. When he fell asleep I went upstairs to bed. I got up every 2 hours to check on him and take him pee outside. So, the first night I got maybe an hour of sleep due to both the dog, and my nagging cough and strep throat.