As of September, I will be going back to school after my summer off, and originally I was only going to be gone 4-5 hours, so we had planned to just crate Peanut (who will be 5 months) by that time. However, my program just got a new director and it is looking like our schedule may change quite a bit, with me being gone more like 7 hours and we are not quite sure what to do with the little guy now. I have looked into dog walkers and daycares, but since we live in the city they are a bit pricy, and that combined with a tuition increase will make things somewhat challenging for us--not impossibl