Cindy Benson

My beloved old girl, Sarika, and I have a cuddle. Life is such a journey, a soaring and then crashing and then soaring again bumpy ride. I wouldn't want to miss a moment of it, and I know that learning from these experiences is part of my responsibility as an intentional human. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a pretty big crash for me to stop, pick my head up, and take stock. I tend to have these great big goals, believing that if I push myself hard enough and want it badly enough, I can do...

Boundary training does not work - here's why!

Yeti is a bit too big to ride with me anymore! Something wonderful happened on social media tonight that I find so encouraging. There is an LGD organization in Texas that I pretty much stay away from because I disagree with their training practices. I have spoken with the man who runs the program and was told that positive reinforcement training was too slow, impractical, and that the ranchers he deals with would never put up with it. He is entitled to his opinion. This organization posted...