Cats! lady gardens or Awesome?

[Niall]

My mate and his girlfriend have ruined their social life with dogs. Only one of them can ever come out as they dont want to leave the dog at home.

With situations like this, IMO it's how they raise them in there first few months. If you don't have discipline and think its cute to let the puppy walk all over you, in later years you can't/won't have a social life.

100% This!
My dog is very needy being a rescue dog and coming from a home where he was beaten from birth. He's not quite right in the head because of that but because of the way we have brought him up, he's very laid back. He is sometimes left for 5-6 hours a day and normally gets stroppy if he doesn't have time to him self to sleep lol