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...

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...

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

#bensonmaremmastraining, This video shows the very beginning of gate training for Yukon, the orange pup, and Phoebe, the red pup. They...

These six-month-old pups skid to a stop and mand in front of my husband. They have never heard the word "no." Well, you can, of course...

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...

This term is not a value judgment. In some social circles, it generates a lot of energy: positive trainers are good, traditional trainers...

#bensonmaremmastraining, #shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds When I was a child, I heard "no" a...