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Leading Specialist in Dog Training & Behaviour in Ireland. Real obedience training for real life! Helping families go from Chaos to Calm every day.

Award Winning, International Competitor and Qualified and Certfied.

30/04/2026

Why is my dog jumping up? 🐾

A lot of jumping up isn’t your dog being badly behaved…it’s over excited, It’s your dog trying to cope. 🫣

If we think about it from their perspective. A person walks in, leans over them, reaches for their head, gets right into their space. That’s a lot for a dog to manage, especially a young one who hasn’t yet built the confidence to deal with it calmly. I am a fully grown women and I still hate people I don’t know coming into my space and touching me 🤣

Jumping up can be a stress response. A way for your dog to create space and manage the situation.

So before we work on stopping the jump it’s worth checking are we putting this dog into situations they’re not yet ready for?

Are strangers creating problems you’ll be left with when the cute pup phase has passed?

And of course it’s not that people have ill intent. 🫣

But remember, You do not have to let everyone pet your dog. Especially a young dog who hasn’t yet got reliable cues in place.

All those hands reaching in, people leaning over, everyone wanting a piece of them, it’s overwhelming.

And then they will never learn to settle and blend in.

Protect your dog’s space before they feel the need to manage it themselves.

Slow everything down. Reduce the amount of triggers or how close you are, teach your dog reliable cues that redirects the focus to you.

The behaviour usually looks very different when the dog feels safe. 🐾

Laura Jennings Dog Training | Dublin 🇮🇪
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Best Dog Trainer 2026 – Dublin 🏆
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29/04/2026

Meet Nala 🐾

A Cavachon living in a busy urban area. When I first met Nala she was 7 months and now she’s just had her 1st birthday. I met Nala really at the peak of her adolescence and the world was just a bit too much for her for a while. 🫣

Overstimulated, pulling on the lead, running onto roads, robbing food off the kids’ plates. 🤣 Her owner reached out not really knowing where to start.

But she showed up. Every single session. Put the work in at home and even over that rotten winter we have had. 🌧️

Nala can visit her owner’s son’s favourite coffee shop. Sitting calmly in the middle of everything that used to send her over the edge. ☕

Of course the journey is never without its bumps and Nala’s owner did say some days she felt like they were stopping more than walking 😂 but Nala needed lots of checks in to build her confidence and stop her fizzing over the edge.

“Don’t know who does be prouder, me or her.” 🥰 was my favourite message to get

Of course Nala is still a cheeky young dog, but now has learned lots of manners and still very cute. 😂

Laura Jennings Dog Training | Dublin 🇮🇪
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28/04/2026

Puppies 🦈 Totally adorable and totally overwhelming 🫣

The sleepless nights, the accidents, the biting, the zoomies at 9pm. I don’t think anyone really warns you how full on those first few weeks are.

Puppy blues can be a real thing.

Puppyhood is hard. It’s also really short, even when it doesn’t feel like it right now.

If you’re in the thick of it at the moment, drop a 🐾 below. You’re not alone. But I promise it’s super short!

Did you suffer from puppy blues? I know when I was younger I felt so disappointed with how my puppy wouldn’t sit with me and kept just biting me 🤣

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Best Dog Trainer 2026 – Dublin 🏆

27/04/2026

Run your own race. 🏅

Me and my son after finishing a race last weekend. 💛

It wasn’t too long before that I left a running group 🫣

I was really struggling with the pace, illness, the timeline was too quick for me, and I was starting to feel like I was falling behind.

But just four weeks after the original date for my 5k, I crossed the finish line.

And it got me thinking about something I see a lot with dogs and their owners.

The comparing. The worrying that your dog isn’t where someone else’s dog is.

The embarrassment that your dog is reactive when lots of other people’s dogs don’t seem to be.

Your puppy is still pulling, still jumping, still working on recall but while it seems like everyone else’s dog is perfectly behaved (you are usually comparing your teen dog to adults here)

So a friendly reminder Every dog is different. Every owner is different. Every starting point is different.

What matters is that you’re showing up, you’re trying, and you’re moving forward, even if it’s at your own pace.

Don’t look sideways. Just keep going. 🐾

Laura Jennings Dog Training | Dublin 🇮🇪
📲 WhatsApp 0857317129

Best Dog Trainer 2026 – Dublin 🏆

14/04/2026

Meet Scout 🐾

Scout’s owner came to me for training, when they had no issues, no problems, no challenges, no behaviour concerns.

They started training because they wanted to keep it that way 😍 and they wanted to do right by him and mentally stimulate this gorgeous collie brain.

Over the past while, Scout have worked through advanced obedience, canine conditioning, and a full year of goal setting classes with me.

And his gorgeous rosettes are the result of a lot of time, effort and commitment to Scout, his training and the relationship.

The most important thing, is the relationship between the handler and dog. Everything can come next 🏅

It’s been lovely to watch them both grow together. This is what investing in your dog looks like. 💛

Laura Jennings Dog Training | Dublin 🇮🇪

Best Dog Trainer 2026 – Dublin 🏆

13/04/2026

Should you just leave your adult dog and puppy to ‘get on with it’

A client last week had been given this advice and things were not going well.

The puppy was learning no boundaries and the adult dog was really hating the puppy!

(Side note- If your adult dog is a younger dog and super social it might all go smooth and easy. But puppies are bloody hard work for adult dogs as well as the humans.)

Most adult dogs are socially selective and building the bond between new dogs may take time, management and training.

But don’t leave it to the adult dog to do it alone, help them, support them, manage that puppy 💥🦈

08/04/2026

Laura Jennings Dog Training has been named Best Dog Trainer 2026 – Dublin by the Irish Enterprise Awards at EU Business News. 🇮🇪

I became a Dog Trainer myself when I was struggling to get the right type of help for my aggressive dog. It was a time when trainers still made you follow ‘pack rules’ and explained all aggression away with ‘dominance’ and then choked them till they stopped.

That was over two decades ago and have learned so much more since then as well as navigating children and puppies 😭 maybe harder than aggressive dogs 🤣 JK

I believe in evidence based dog training and I always want to be a support to the families I’m working with. So to be recognised for doing things that way means a lot. A big lot. 💛

Thank you to every client who has trusted me with their dog. You’re the reason I love what I do. I genuinely feel so blessed to get to work with the families that I do!

Laura Jennings Dog Training | Dublin 🇮🇪
Best Dog Trainer 2026 – Dublin 🏆

30/03/2026

It turns out when your not just relying on coercion and focus on the relationship and are prepared to work communication with your dog, size isn’t so important 💅

05/03/2026

A couple of weeks ago I took an Art class with

Caroline was such a gorgeous person and an amazing teacher. The kind of teacher who make you feel safe to try, Safe to get things wrong, no need to be perfect.

A teacher who is patient while you figure things out and who quietly help you believe you can do it.

It made me reflect on the kind of teacher I want to be for the people who come to me for dog training.

Dog training isn’t just about cues, timing, or technique. Often people arrive feeling unsure, sometimes a bit overwhelmed, and worried they’re doing things wrong and have had lots of misinformation pushed at them

I hope I’m the kind of teacher who creates a space where people feel comfortable learning. Where mistakes are part of the process, small wins are celebrated, and everyone is reminded that progress takes patience, kindness, and practice.

And it also made me think about something else, we are our dogs’ teachers too.

Our dogs are learning from us every single day. They learn best when we’re clear, patient, encouraging, and fair. Just like us, they do better when they feel supported rather than pressured.

Good teaching helps confidence grow, in people and in dogs.

So today I’m feeling grateful for the teachers who shaped how I teach, teachers who make me reflect on how I present myself to my clients and for all the wonderful humans and dogs who trust me to be part of their learning journey.

14/02/2026

Diesel and I will be on Ireland AM tomorrow morning!

Thanks to Barbara .ie Diesel gets the full glam squad treatment, a fresh blow-dry and fluffed to perfection, while I’m just going to be fuzzed to perfection 🤣

Catch my little star (and his human assistant) on Ireland AM tomorrow morning at 11:30am.

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