When we first moved into our house I brought with us a coon hound pup, 8 weeks old the night we moved in.
He was basically our baby, and I had lots of time to hunt him. We coon and rabbit hunted all the time and I often took him to work with me.
Fast forward 6 years and we have a toddler, I work harder, and time isn't available like it used to be anymore.
I bought a lab pup this year too and we did a ton of duck hunting. I can't take my hound out after ducks because he ranges a few hundred yards and will be after rabbits or treeing denned up coon. So he only really got any field time a few times this spring. He has a full run of the house and yard and plays with the lab until they are both tired, but I just feel bad that he isn't getting any field time.
We went to town the other day and when we got back to our road I let him out to run the 1/2 mile to our house in front of the car and he was doing the happy dance the whole way.