I am glad Capone is home and is recovering! As for him shying away at first, mine do that anytime I've had to board them. They're all happy to see me when I pick them up and when we get home all I want to do is love on them to make up for lost time and they try to ignore me for a few hours to let me know they weren't happy they got left out. (My girls have the worse about it.) After that, nothing but love!