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    Training Thor - All In Good Time
    Cindy Benson
    • Mar 6
    • 7 min

    Training Thor - All In Good Time

    #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, #LGDpuppytraining, Thor has been here in training with me for six weeks;...
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    Training To Prevent Resource Guarding - Katie S. - Success!!!
    Cindy Benson
    • Feb 19
    • 3 min

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

    #resourceguardingLGDs, #shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, ***Note: Please read the blog below for...
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    Feeding & Manners - Katie S. - Shaping, Blog #2 – Katie’s Videos
    Cindy Benson
    • Feb 11
    • 4 min

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

    #resourceguardingLGDs, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds This series of videos shows many of the steps of...
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    Feeding & Manners - Katie S. - Shaping, Blog #1 - Katie's Story
    Cindy Benson
    • Feb 11
    • 8 min

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

    #cuesandshaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #resourceguarding, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, ****Suzanne Clothier, one of my...
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    Raising Eevie & Banks - Feeding and Manners - Katie W. - Shaping
    Cindy Benson
    • Dec 30, 2021
    • 7 min

    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...
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    Teach Your LGDs That the Presence of a Food Bowl Equals Safety: Shaping & Cues - Reminding Adult Dog
    Cindy Benson
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    Teach Your LGDs That the Presence of a Food Bowl Equals Safety: Shaping & Cues - Young Dogs
    Cindy Benson
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Teach Your LGDs That the Presence of a Food Bowl Equals Safety: Shaping & Cues - Annabel the Cow
    Cindy Benson
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    Yeti & Blush - Redirect Done Badly - No Shaping
    Cindy Benson
    • Dec 23, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    Resource Guarding Is Not a Dirty Word #2- But What Do You Do If the Dog Is Really Awful??!!
    Cindy Benson
    • Jun 2, 2021
    • 8 min

    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...
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    Resource Guarding Is Not a Dirty Word
    Cindy Benson
    • Jun 1, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    Training To Prevent Resource Guarding
    Cindy Benson
    • Nov 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    Training To Prevent Resource Guarding

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