Thanks, yall.
gsp - it's by Jean Donaldson. It is on Dogwise.com for $13. I saw it on Amazon for - get this - $49. It is a small book - only 100 pages. She has a lot of other books, too.
She opened up with our expectations of dogs are way higher than that of any other type of animal or human. The way she explained it was a smack in the face. But, she said our expectations were attainable.
I think she smacked me every couple of pages after that.
One part she talks about aggressive dogs and muzzling them and how to do it without getting bit then make them want to be muzzled! Her advice to use a kevlar glove made me glad Tex wasn't that bad. She writes as if the reader is a dog trainer, too.