Hi lovingisliving! Thanks for your reply and your idea is good, I'm just not sure it would be too much of a success with Tasha for a couple of reasons. One she is very suspicious of people outside her family circle, especially men, and the more they try to get her to come up by cooing and even offering treats, the more suspicious and upset she gets. She's so funny that way. But, if I could actually get a neighbor to do it every day, I still think she'd eventually thaw out. But one of the neighbors is a very elderly, hard of hearing man and his 60-year-old son. The son might be interested but he works night hours so I don't see much of him, and the older man never seems interested in getting social.

The neighbor behind us is more social, but he has a mentally handicapped boy, I think his nephew, staying there a lot, and he has constant company coming and going from his house. The boy often plays out in the yard, I'm not sure how old he is but I think he's perhaps 13 or 14, he likes to run through the yard humming or just making happy noises. Of course this makes Tasha even more vehement and loud in her barking and growling because she is alarmed at this human running around making noises like that, it's very embarrassing.

I think in this situation it'd be tough to make the treat idea work unless I had neighbors willing/able to work with me on a daily consistent basis for awhile. I'm still brainstorming ways to handle this whole thing, and I sure appreciate your input!