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Training To Prevent Resource Guarding - Katie S. - Success!!!

#resourceguardingLGDs, #shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, ***Note: Please read the blog below for...

Feeding & Manners - Katie S. - Shaping, Blog #2 – Katie’s Videos

#resourceguardingLGDs, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds This series of videos shows many of the steps of...

Feeding & Manners - Katie S. - Shaping, Blog #1 - Katie's Story

#cuesandshaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #resourceguarding, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, ****Suzanne Clothier, one of my...

Raising Eevie & Banks - Feeding and Manners - Katie W. - Shaping

#Maremmasheepdogtraining, #resourceguardingLGDs Updated 12/31/21 These five-month-old pups belong to Katie W. Katie is a beginner LGD...

Teach Your LGDs That the Presence of a Food Bowl Equals Safety: Shaping & Cues - Reminding Adult Dog

The big dog in the video is Yeti, a four-year-old neutered Maremma. His partner is Blush, also an adult dog. Blush is one of my breeding...

Teach Your LGDs That the Presence of a Food Bowl Equals Safety: Shaping & Cues - Young Dogs

These dogs are a little older than the pups in the related blog #4. Here you can see that my previous training has a big payoff because...

Teach Your LGDs That the Presence of a Food Bowl Equals Safety: Shaping & Cues - Annabel the Cow

These four-month-old pups have been taught, using shaping, that I will stay and make sure they are allowed to eat in peace, no matter...

Yeti & Blush - Redirect Done Badly - No Shaping

This blog is one of those good news-bad news - situations because some of what I did was appropriate, and it worked, but the training...

Resource Guarding Is Not a Dirty Word #2- But What Do You Do If the Dog Is Really Awful??!!

In the first resource blog (the one in the first part of the title of this one) I explain why animals guard resources. OK. Then I...

Resource Guarding Is Not a Dirty Word

#resourceguardingLGDs,#Maremmasheepdogtraining Resource guarding is one of my favorite topics is talking about LGDs because it is so easy...

Training To Prevent Resource Guarding

#resourceguardingLGDs, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, Dogs care about what is immediately rewarding; resource guarding is a survival skill. If...