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

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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The dog in the photo is Yeti. He is one of the most challenging Maremmas I have ever raised. He still lives with me. As an adult, he is...

#bensonmaremmastraining, Camille is about one year old. When she was six months old, a stranger came to visit. The introduction went...

Me with my little training partner hen. #bensonmaremmastraining, Terry Ryan, the instructor for Chicken Camps all over the world, was my...

#bensonmaremmastraining, String training is a concept presented to me by Steve Martin only six short months ago in a course I attended at...