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...

This is the link that will take you to this podcast episode. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-71-lgd-training-is-not-remotely-imp...

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...

The backstory On July 5, 2023, my dear friend Debi Reid, of Black Alder Ranch in Idaho, was blessed with a litter of six Maremma puppies....

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Yukon is an eight-month-old intact Maremma. He has been a full-time working LGD almost all of his life. The goat girls, Party and Pearl,...

This is going to be a very short post about a very important dog. Kyrie came to me for training at about seven months old with her...