My husband grew up with a dog. When we got married we decided to adopt a lop eared rabbit. We couldn't just live with one, so we had to adopt a friend for our big bun! We cared for both of those rabbits until their last days through bonding them together and with a third rabbit when our first guy passed and through sickness and fun times. After the rabbits had all passed, we moved on to larger animals and adopted our first dog - Maya - a Husky, when she was just a year old. She's our big, sweet and talkative girl. We've had her and loved her for the past 9 years. We decided a couple years ago she needed a friend and got our boy - Tucker - a chocolate lab - when he was just 7 weeks old. Both of our dogs have had some unlucky health situations and surgeries so giving medicine or giving special care isn't a problem for us. When you bring your dog to stay with us, he or she will have a lot of free time to roam about. We have a large backyard with lots of trees (and sticks). I am home during most of the day so they will be free to roam about the house as well. When we leave we do crate our dogs but they stay out at night. In fact, our lab sleeps with our daughter and our husky sleeps on the floor next to our bed or our son. We do allow our dogs on some furniture so its no problem for us to get cuddly close to your fur babies! We would love for the opportunity to take care of your dogs while you're out of town or unavailable. I am currently not working. Our dogs stay out during the day while we are at home. They are crated in the evenings when we have to leave for sports practices. We have a large fenced in yard with dogs all around us to run and play with. We have lots of trees and sticks to play with and squirrels to chase!