Just to add, mine doesn’t need loads of exercise, probably 20-25 mins twice a day off lead actual walking, but we train for most of that (recall, stop whistle, down etc) and the rest of the time she hangs around doing whatever I’m doing.
While I wouldn’t say she was especially needy, and she can be left for a few hours totally fine, she does adore me and my partner in a way I’ve never seen in any other dog. We are her favourite things in the whole world.
She’s not at all nervous, but she’s from Hungarian hunting lines on her dad’s side, and American hunting lines on her mum’s, and she’s also been out socialising/in the car every single day since she was 8 weeks old.
The only minor problem I’ve had with her is she hated the car crate. She howled for 2 1/2 hours the first day I put her in it to go to work, but there was literally no alternative but for her to come to work with me, and by day 3 and three to four car trips a day she was fine, and has been ever since.
She fits in with everything we do, we were in Edinburgh on Monday, Southampton on Wednesday, I work in the countryside and my partner works in an office and we both take her to work.
But, like I say, she was intense as a puppy and may well wipe out your your younger kids.