I am SO EXCITED to offer online livestock guardian training courses! Please take a look and let me know what you think! This project has...

#Bensonmaremmastraining, If you've been following my blog posts, I probably don't need to say, one more time, how much training with...

#bensonmaremmastraining, #prancingponyfarm, Life continues to be just long enough for me to keep making mistakes; writing this booklet...

#bensonmaremmastraining, Camille is about one year old. When she was six months old, a stranger came to visit. The introduction went...

#bensonmaremmastraining, Terry Ryan, the instructor for Chicken Camps all over the world, was my instructor for the Karen Pryor Academy...

#bensonmaremmastraining, String training is a concept presented to me by Steve Martin only six short months ago in a course I attended at...

#bensonmaremmastraining, This video shows the very beginning of gate training for Yukon, the orange pup, and Phoebe, the red pup. They...

#bensonmaremmastraining, This course, taught by the incredible Susan Friedman, Ph. D., Department of Psychology, Utah State University,...

#bensonmaremmastraining, In my career as an LGD training specialist, I work with some amazing people and wonderful dogs. What a privilege...

#bensonmaremmastraining, #positivereinforcementlgdtraining, There are trainers that seem to have decided they know all they need to know,...

#bensonmaremmastraining, Recently, on a Facebook page that I am an admin on (Maremma Sheepdog Open Forum) several questions were posed to...

#bensonmaremmastraining, I don’t remember recording this video. I came across it a few days ago and finally made the decision to share...

#bensonmaremmastraining, Food is a primary reinforcer for animals, which means that animals don’t need to learn to value it; they value...

#bensonmaremmastraining, I have been taught that dogs do what is immediately reinforcing, and I have been taught that food is a primary...

#Bensonmaremmastraining, Words can hurt. They have consequences. People have a choice to read and believe or move on. Dogs don't have...

#bensonmaremmastraining, Scientific principles govern how dogs learn; not traditional lore, not trendy opinions, and not even if you love...

#bensonmaremmastraining, I am an LGD trainer - so what does that have to do with training a Macaw?! Quite a lot! I have been chasing my...

#bensonmaremmastraining, In November 2022 I went to Florida (from Oregon!) to attend a five-day training course at the Natural Encounters...

#bensonmaremmastraining, In September 2022, Molly Cruse, writer for the Oregon Capitol Press newspaper, contacted me about guardian dogs....

#bensonmaremmastraining, I had the distinct privilege recently of working with the owner of a special needs pup. She came to me after...