Beautiful Training - One-Year-Old Pups with Goats
#LGDtraining This is a nine-second video of me using two hand signal cues to slow the speed of this enthusiastic male pup, Blue. Did you...
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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 13, 2022
- 4 min
That's a Redirect?! That's Easy!
#shaping, #Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds ****Interrupt - Redirect - Reinforce**** Those three words are...
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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 31, 2021
- 11 min
New Home, New Cow - Managing the Introduction - Novice Owner
The backstory: The woman in the coveralls is Amber, the proud new owner of a pair of eleven-month-old Sarika pups. Her assistant is Anna,...
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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
- Dec 16, 2021
- 5 min
Training - Knowing When to Walk Away - Eevie & Banks - Shaping
#Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds I am currently providing training support for twelve dogs and their...
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Cindy Benson
- Sep 12, 2021
- 8 min
Cues in Action! Verbal Marker, Clicker, Environmental Cues, Targeting, Redirecting, Click for Calm
#Maremmasheepdogtraining, #positivereinforcementtrainingforlgds, These six-month-old pups traveled with me all the way to South Dakota....
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Cindy Benson
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
Introducing Eight-Month-Old Maremmas to Goats
On this day, we introduced two of the Sarika pups to goats for the first time; it was a first for the goats too! We always do...
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Cindy Benson
- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
How to Teach a Dog to Touch a Hand Target
#bensonmaremmastraining, Hand targeting is a great skill to teach pups. It has many practical applications. Examples would be moving dogs...
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Cindy Benson
- Jun 3, 2021
- 9 min
Training Rosie – Then & Now – Shaping
“You would be fascinated to know the science behind why the way you train works.” This statement is why I am a clicker trainer. It was...
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Cindy Benson
- May 30, 2021
- 7 min
Learning the Skill (Art) of Shaping
In the video above, I am using shaping to work with eleven dogs, all at the same time, from outside their fields. Using shaping, I am...
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Cindy Benson
- Apr 11, 2021
- 4 min
Vinny Meets the Goats - Safety Line & Shaping
Vinny is a sixteen-month-old Cameo x Milan pup. He had never seen an adult goat until we brought him to this pair of retired dairy goat...
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Cindy Benson
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Meadow Meets the Goats - **Cues**
#MaremmaTraining #KPAFoundations #Cues Pearl and Party are retired dairy goats who arrived at the ranch only a few days ago. Meadow has...
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Cindy Benson
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Introducing Meadow and Benson to Sheep and Baby Lambs Using a Safety Line - **Cues**
#MaremmaTraining #KPAFoundations #Cues Meadow and Benson are sixteen-month-old siblings who share a fence line with this small flock of...
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