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.

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...