Yeti is a bit too big to ride with me anymore! Something wonderful happened on social media tonight that I find so encouraging. There is an LGD organization in Texas that I pretty much stay away from because I disagree with their training practices. I have spoken with the man who runs the program and was told that positive reinforcement training was too slow, impractical, and that the ranchers he deals with would never put up with it. He is entitled to his opinion. This organ

In this video, I will show you the training steps I use to build confident, discerning livestock guardian dogs.

"A Resource Super Center." This is how a friend of mine described her barnyard through the eyes of her mature, experienced, neutered male LGD.

It isn't possible to actually, for sure, know what a dog is feeling. Assumptions are made based on the body language of the dog, and possibly the environmental circumstance, and this absolutely pulls from the person's learned history with dogs and other animals.

Learn how to deal with an LGD barking at new livestock without using aversive training methods.

It is important to stay with dogs while they eat if resources are a concern for either dog. In this instance, I am giving Yeti a cue to...

#bensonmaremmastraining, In my career as an LGD training specialist, I work with some amazing people and wonderful dogs. What a privilege...

Working LGD Rescue & Sanctuary update

Learn what an LGD experiences and learns when tethered as a management/training tool.

My first clicker moments with worried Ms. Roo. I love to talk about and share the wonder of my training journey with dogs. For me, there...

This is Roo and Tucker the morning after they arrived; Roo is the brown girl, and Tucker is sleeping by the gate. The foster dogs arrived...

All livestock guardian dogs should have hip testing because this is the BEST way to protect their ability to be sound on into old age....

This is a graphic of the homepage for my online livestock guardian dog training courses. The best reason to enroll in my online livestock...

Learn how to train livestock guardian dogs by changing the environment around them. The thing an LGD cares about the most is what is...

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Day #2! A new toy/learning adventure. Let the games begin! How to start LGD puppies well is a hotly disputed subject, one that is...

I do not use, or promote, training methods that dogs fear or will work to avoid. Puppies are born perfect. And yet, in the case of LGD...

The Black Alder trio is hard at work. Let us out! No time to eat in this pen! The litter of six Black Alder pups came to me for training...

The litter is almost twelve weeks old, so fast! And they change right in front of me at lightning speed; their choices a week ago are...

The puppies have been with me for a whole week! That is amazing. There is just no time to waste when training livestock guardian dog...