The key to working herding dogs and LGDs
Tarma Shena shares about her journey with herding dogs and LGDs. The key? Expect better, from them both.
How to add a new livestock guardian dog to the pack
Tarma Shena discusses why a solid, healthy livestock guardian dog pack is important, especially when adding an outside dog.
The bigger picture and patience in growing a farm’s pastures
Each spring, Tarma Shena watches to see how an area responds to winter’s rest before moving stock around. It's a process that has grown and evolved.
Training ‘nuts and bolts’ with young livestock guardian dogs
Tarma Shena turns to her veteran livestock guardian dogs to help teach her young pups lessons, as she tightens training up before the winter season.
The tale of a livestock guardian dog and a cat
Tarma Shena shares how Bridger, her good, veteran livestock guardian dog, was bad. All because of a cat.
Preservation breeding vs. purpose bred LGDs
Does the term "preservation breeding" work for livestock guardian dog breeding? Tarma Shena takes a closer look.
Teach livestock guardian dogs to use their imaginations
For Tarma Shena, patience is key in livestock guardian dog training. So is a dog's ability to entertain itself. Case in point: Punica and the squirrel
Finding the right jobs for livestock guardian dogs
Despite Tarma Shena's preference for sheep, sometimes, her livestock guardian dogs like goats instead.
How should we define a livestock guardian dog’s intelligence?
Does thinking differently, having different priorities, or different solutions make a species more or less intelligent than humans? Why do we care so much?
New livestock help livestock guardian dogs learn
Each livestock guardian dog processes information differently and that is never more apparent than when Tarma Shena adds a new type of livestock.
