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Is Your Barnyard a "Resource Super Center"?
"A Resource Super Center." This is how a friend of mine described her barnyard through the eyes of her mature, experienced, neutered male LGD.
Cindy Benson
Aug 1, 20253 min read


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...
Cindy Benson
Mar 1, 20232 min read


Training To Prevent Resource Guarding - Katie S. - Success!!!
#resourceguardingLGDs, #shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, ***Note: Please read the blog below for...
Cindy Benson
Feb 19, 20223 min read


Feeding & Manners - Katie S. - Shaping, Blog #2 – Katie’s Videos
#resourceguardingLGDs, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds This series of videos shows many of the steps of...
Cindy Benson
Feb 11, 20224 min read


Feeding & Manners - Katie S. - Shaping, Blog #1 - Katie's Story
#cuesandshaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #resourceguarding, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, ****Suzanne Clothier, one of my...
Cindy Benson
Feb 11, 20228 min read


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...
Cindy Benson
Dec 30, 20217 min read


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...
Cindy Benson
Dec 24, 20216 min read


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...
Cindy Benson
Dec 24, 20211 min read


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...
Cindy Benson
Dec 24, 20216 min read
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