My husband and I have both had dogs and cats our entire life. He has helped his mom with border collie puppies since he was a child. We got both of our dogs as puppies and are working on training them ourselves as well. We both work from home and are available to let the dogs have potty breaks throughout the day as well as still to meal schedules. We have a very large fenced in yard and two large dogs of our own that would love to make friends and play with other dogs! We do crate our dogs over night and would ask that your dog be crate trained as well but they would have full reign of the house and yard during the day!