How To Introduce Pigs to a Young LGD and Make One Very Big Mistake
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Cindy Benson
- Aug 10
- 2 min
Yukon Meets the Goat Girls! - How To Introduce New Livestock To An LGD
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,...
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Cindy Benson
- Aug 9
- 7 min
Clicker Training! Practice It With An Easy Animal Before You Use It With Your LGD
This was shared with me this morning; shared here with permission. These are the words of an experienced animal trainer, now completing...
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Cindy Benson
- Jul 24
- 3 min
Meet Kyrie - Mouth Everywhere, Feet Everywhere, Never Stops Moving! What Can I Do?
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...
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Cindy Benson
- Jun 1
- 7 min
"String Training" - Building a Connection Between the Trainer and the Learner
#bensonmaremmastraining, String training is a concept presented to me by Steve Martin only six short months ago in a course I attended at...
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Cindy Benson
- May 28
- 3 min
Gate Training With Adolescent Dogs
#bensonmaremmastraining, This video shows the very beginning of gate training for Yukon, the orange pup, and Phoebe, the red pup. They...
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Cindy Benson
- May 12
- 3 min
Why Can’t I Just Say “No!”?
Well, you can, of course you can, but doing so comes at a cost to the dog and his relationship with you, even if you do it “nicely.” The...
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Cindy Benson
- Jan 22
- 4 min
Why Saying “Ah” Didn’t Work
When people come here to work with me to learn my training methods, they will sometimes hear me make a distinct but odd sound (in fact, I...
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Cindy Benson
- Jan 22
- 3 min
Positive Reinforcement Training – What It Is & Why It Matters
This term is not a value judgment. In some social circles, it generates a lot of energy: positive trainers are good, traditional trainers...
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Cindy Benson
- Nov 10, 2022
- 7 min
The Special Needs Pup - Learning to See Behavior In Pieces
#bensonmaremmastraining, I had the distinct privilege recently of working with the owner of a special needs pup. She came to me after...
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Cindy Benson
- Feb 13, 2022
- 5 min
Going From No and Wrong to Change and Create as a Trainer
#bensonmaremmastraining, #shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds When I was a child, I heard "no" a...
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Cindy Benson
- Feb 13, 2022
- 4 min
That's a Redirect?! That's Easy!
#shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds ****Interrupt - Redirect - Reinforce**** Those three words are...
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Cindy Benson
- Dec 31, 2021
- 11 min
New Home, New Cow - Managing the Introduction - Novice Owner
The backstory: The woman in the coveralls is Amber, the proud new owner of a pair of eleven-month-old Sarika pups. Her assistant is Anna,...
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Cindy Benson
- Dec 29, 2021
- 5 min
Raising Eevie & Banks - Environmental Confidence - Katie W.
These five-month-old pups belong to Katie W. Katie is a beginner LGD owner, sort of. For several months she lived with Rocco and Isla,...
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Cindy Benson
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
Introducing Eight-Month-Old Maremmas to Goats
On this day, we introduced two of the Sarika pups to goats for the first time; it was a first for the goats too! We always do...
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Cindy Benson
- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
How to Teach a Dog to Touch a Hand Target
#bensonmaremmastraining, Hand targeting is a great skill to teach pups. It has many practical applications. Examples would be moving dogs...
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Cindy Benson
- Apr 25, 2021
- 2 min
Online Dog Training Course & LGD Training Manual
In August 2020, I began requiring completion of the Karen Pryor Academy Dog Trainer Foundations Course as part of the criteria for...
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Cindy Benson
- Apr 11, 2021
- 4 min
Vinny Meets the Goats - Safety Line & Shaping
Vinny is a sixteen-month-old Cameo x Milan pup. He had never seen an adult goat until we brought him to this pair of retired dairy goat...
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Cindy Benson
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Meadow Meets the Goats - **Cues**
#MaremmaTraining #KPAFoundations #Cues Pearl and Party are retired dairy goats who arrived at the ranch only a few days ago. Meadow has...
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Cindy Benson
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Introducing Meadow and Benson to Sheep and Baby Lambs Using a Safety Line - **Cues**
#MaremmaTraining #KPAFoundations #Cues Meadow and Benson are sixteen-month-old siblings who share a fence line with this small flock of...
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