I am a young full-time professional civil servant with flexible working hours who recently moved out of family home with 4 dogs. I have mainly had Collie-crosses and have had pets as long as I can remember. I was involved in all the training of our first puppy. I watched as she gave birth to 5 puppies, who we raised and gave to our close friends and family. We kept 2 of the pups and raised them ourselves, training them to be good on and off the leads. 5 years later we then adopted a rescue puppy which we had discovered abandoned in a bag in a pond. Raising this puppy has been the greatest challenge of dog care for myself, as the traumatic experience left him with personality difficulties which took a lot of training and care to work through. Now he is an absolute gem. I know how to give a dog a great walk and am very perceptive to their feelings and believe I can work out very well what their needs are and what they are trying to tell me.