Do you want to give your dog a solid training foundation from which to build?
Are you willing to start at the beginning and learn?
Are you familiar with or want to learn Ben's methods and philosophy?

If you answered yes to these questions

You are a candidate for Ben's Stock Dog Basics

Experience Ben's lifelong passion

for good-working stock dogs!

Realize and recognize the difference between

biting instinct and working instinct
a well-trained working dog and a trained dog with little working instinct
a conditioned or patterned dog and a trained dog

Ben developed his training program based on sound, common-sense training methods cohered with over 40 years of experience. He shares this information with 100's of people each year through his training videos, clinics and training outside dogs. He is one of the leading cattle dog trainers in this country.

Ben's early years (before age 20) were spent raising and training Coonhounds and English Pointers. Adults came from miles around to bring him dogs to train or to buy his pups and trained dogs.

Rope, reining and race horse training filled his early adult years, as did running cattle on his own spread. He decided to finesse (save time) his cowboy ways of handling cattle by adding a good cow dog to the horse and a rope. The next 35 years were spent developing strong cattle working lines of Border Collies and developing his sound training methods. About 10 years ago he became involved with the Working Kelpie. He also raised and trained Australian Cattle Dogs early on in his stock dog career.

Both Australian Shepherds and Australian Cattle Dogs have been successfully trained using his training methods. Ben will use sheep, goats and ducks in addition to cattle when training a dog or helping you train your dog.

This fall, after relocating to Oklahoma, Ben will be offering his Stock Dog Basics program at the home place.

Individual lessons
Weekend Sessions
Week-long Work Camps

He will also be scheduling a limited number of clinics for 2003.

Watch for our address change information.

We will also be offering various holistic animal health programs by several well-known and respected animal health care providers.

Equine and Canine Massage Therapy for the animal owner
Animal Chiropractic Clinics by AVCA Certified Doctors
Training in Animal Communication, and more.

If you wish to be placed on our mailing list for updates, please email your name, address, phone, email, breed/s of dog, type of work used for to us.

or click here for form to fill out

We'll be glad to keep you posted of future developments.

See Ben in action with clinic participants and their dogs.

Check back for program information to be posted this summer.

Posted February 14, 2002