I'm curious to know how many hours do your dogs sleep on average at night? and do they wake up often to go to the bathroom? I ask this because when I start working I will have to work 12 hrs for 3 days, I can either work the 7am-7pm shift or the 7pm-7am shift. I was thinking that if I did the night shift, I could tire out my dog (and myself :o ) during the day by walking, playing, training, etc and then maybe he would get a good night sleep. He would probably have to go to the bathroom during the night so I need to think about that more.
Now, if I worked during the day I could possibly hire a pet sitter to come over and walk my dog and make sure everythings ok but Hmmmm made a good point about having a pet sitter (the dog might confuse who's alpha) and I don't want that happening.