• 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.  Grownups came from miles around to bring him dogs to train or to buy his pups and trained dogs.  He was particularly expert at taking gun-shy dogs and making them __________.

The next 40 years have been 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.

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