Our Thoughts: On-Leash Greetings

You may have come across different opinions on on-leash greetings, and we want to highlight some of our thoughts. Our hope is to share our experiences so that you can make informed decisions when it comes to allowing or declining on-leash greetings.   Potential Dangers of On-Leash Greetings When we first got Emma, our priority was to “socialize” as much as possible, and I use quotation marks because our understanding of socialization was very narrow, and had omitted very important details.   At the time, we had assumed that “socialization” simply meant “interacting with other dogs”, so our focus was...