I offer that if you can have your animal with you 24/7 ( but not on the bed ) for as long as possible the bond between you will be very strong.
with all our dogs we have deliberately left the dogs on their own in an effort to avoid separation anxiety.
all our dogs sleep in a separate room at night and always have done from puppyhood. now we have 4 dogs they share the same room but even when we had 1 dog we made time to leave them for an hour or so during the day aswell. our lab and gsd would follow you to the end of the earth but they are equally happy being left behind. by happy i mean they arent distressed or destructive and can switch off to sleep.
i agree making the effort in the first year especially is really important. we plan our weekends around our pup so we joined the NT and take him with us etc. try and do everything, trains, buses, cities, countryside, it really teaches them an awful lot.
