I have a dog myself and grew up around dogs, and many other animals like chickens, cats, pigs. My dog is almost 2years old and she is well trained and behaved. I was able to potty train her in 5 months. My sister has two full bred german shepards i have baby sat before. So ive been around all types of sizes and personalities of dogs. And her dogs werent the best trained, but i was able to handle them.