Where’s the On-Off Switch on This Dog?

We’ve now had Tajji for almost three weeks and have a pretty solid sense of the challenges we’ll be facing while re-socializing her. As I noted in my first blog post about her, she’s “hyper-vigilant:” aware of and alert to anything new around her, and convinced that it is her responsibility just as it was with her blind person. This attitude is certainly a necessity for a seeing-eye dog in her service harness, but it’s a serious liability in a companion animal at the end of a leash. It manife...