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[quote=Anonymous]People are being a little crazy in this thread, I think.

My husband and I have a dog and we work outside the house, are gone about 12 hrs a day. We and the dog are all pretty psyched about our arrangement.

I walk the dog for about 30-45 minutes in the morning. (From 8 until 8:45 or so.) We go to work. We get home between 7 and 9. Dog has been sleeping all day. No different from the days when we do work from home.

One of us walks him for another 1/2 - 1 hr. Another walk around the block before bed.

If we're not going to be home until later than usual, we have a dog walker come in the afternoon. It's about $20 per visit; dog LOVES the dog walker. They're out about 1/2 hr or longer together.

We got our dog when he was about 1. I worked from home then, but I don't think it'd have made much of a difference. He's just a big easy dog.

Yes, we do consider the dog every time we're working out our schedules, and it's true that we do a ton of dog-related activities on the weekends, but that's cause we enjoy it as much as he does; I think he'd be pretty happy even if we walked him less and let him nap more.

Anyway - not to say you should get a dog. But there are a lot of dogs in shelters who'd sure love to have a home, even one where the conditions aren't 100% ideal according to the standards I'm learning about on this thread. Consider the alternative: the dog has no home.

Given what you've said about your schedule, try to get a dog that's a bit older and already housetrained. If you like long walks and have time in the morning and when you get home, get a dog that likes long walks. There are a LOT of dogs who need homes and don't like long walks, so that is also a possibility.

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