Punishment Bad!? What Are My Options? My Rambling Answers
#bensonmaremmastraining, Recently, on a Facebook page that I am an admin on (Maremma Sheepdog Open Forum) several questions were posed to...
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Cindy Benson
- Feb 19, 2022
- 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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Cindy Benson
- Feb 11, 2022
- 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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Cindy Benson
- Feb 11, 2022
- 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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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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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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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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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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Cindy Benson
- Dec 22, 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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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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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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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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