Any odd or adverse behaviors is useful to know. If the dog has anxiety, or gets territorial during meal time, or get scared during a storm etc. It also helps to know the dogs history with other dogs outside of the house. Eating habits are important to know as well. Whether or not the dog is accustomed to meal feeding or is more of a grazer. I do require that dogs staying with me be crate trained. I need to be able to leave them crated for blocks of time (3-6 hours) while I’m gone during the day.

I wake up around 5:30-6am everyday. Everyone goes outside, then gets fed, and then goes outside again. If it’s nice outside in the morning I may bring my laptop out and do some work while everyone mills around in the backyard. My schedule requires me to be out of the house for blocks of time at different points in the day, so I always have an opportunity to come home and let everyone out. Dogs in my home will typically spend 3-6 hours alone. In the evening sometimes we’ll go for a walk, or if it’s nice enough we’ll hangout in the backyard. Dinner is usually around 6pm. Then we’ll hangout in the living room as the day winds down, and I’ll usually go to bed around 10-11pm.