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Laura Jennings Dog Training, Boroimhe Beech, County Dublin, Swords (2025)

26/03/2025

💥Private Dog Training Classes💥

A private hourly session, once per week for 3 weeks.

Plenty of homework to keep you busy in-between.

Covering all the basics your new puppy or adolescent dog dog need to get their paws off to a great start 🐾

Click to WhatsApp me ➡️ https://wa.me/0857317129

25/03/2025

Itchy dogs have underlying inflammation.

These dogs are more likely to present and show with:

💥 increase in non social fear
💥Increase in touch sensitivity
💥Increase in excitability
💥Increase in attention seeking behaviours
💥Decrease in trainability

As well as:

🧨 Increase in stranger directed aggression
🧨Increase in owner directed aggression
🧨 Increase in dog aggression

Dogs who are chronically itchy experience more fear and anxiety. We don’t know if it’s being constantly itchy but likely that it’s the underlying inflammation causing issues.

If your dog is experiencing reoccurring skin and ear issues it’s vital that you are trying to resolve these and especially if your dog is displaying behaviour or training challenges.

Speak to your vet and supplementation and medication. And it’s vital you look at diet, especially in helping reduce inflammation because your dog might not need a Dog Trainer, they might need a Canine Nutritionist or Vet support first.

If you would like to research this topic more you can look up McAuliffe 2022 and Piotti 2024 Inflammation and Behaviour

30/01/2025

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30/01/2025

It’s vital they are still getting out each day. But there are somethings to consider…

🌈 Change your thinking from ‘walking’ to ‘meandering’ as some dogs age things need to slow right down especially when their hearing and sight are starting to go

🌈Get them water repellent fleece to keep them dry and warm. I use

🌈 If they are sore, speak to your vet, don’t leave them suffer in pain and limited enrichment just because they are old. There’s lots of therapies you can do now.

🌈 Even if your dog has arthritis they should still be getting out to sniff and move, they don’t have to go far.

Mason age 15, we don’t get much further than 250m from our house but he loves his time out especially when he meets his elderly pals in his little active retirement club

😅What does your elderly dog love and how do you enrich their lives?

23/01/2025

Research into the most common factors in resiliency suggests for people to be resilient need to:

-be resourceful and have good problem solving skills
- be able to Seek help when needed
- Have options to help manage their feelings to cope
- Social support available
- feel Connected with others

Now let’s look at our dogs and how we attempt to build resiliency.

- we don’t allow them problem solve, we actively want them to stop it
- If they seek support from us when they are worried, people tell us not to comfort them ‘You’ll reinforce the fear’ (this is wrong!)
- We don’t allow our dogs options, like sniffing and moving away
- We often believe we shouldn’t ‘pamper’ them or offer support.
- They can spend large amounts of time alone and disconnected from us.

We all want resilient dogs. So what can we do to build resiliency.

Firstly, don’t be afraid to offer your dog support and reassurance if they are worried or nervous. It’s okay to advocate for them and ask people not to touch your dog or recall their dog if it’s too much.

It’s perfectly okay to allow your dog to leave a situation that is causing them lots of stress, anxiety or worry, they need to have options.

When they have no options, this is when behaviour problems develop.

Expose your dog to low levels of the stressor to build resilience up slowly. If you over do it, you risk sensitising your dog and making them worse 🤪🙈

No exposure at all and they can’t build up the skills they need.

If you try train them when they are over threshold (barking, lunging etc) you run the risk of making the behaviour worse.

You should engage in play with your dog to help build their connection with you.

Teach them problem solving, in ways that are appropriate, like trick training with shaping or scent work classes and so on, we live in an age where almost everything is available to us now.

What do you think makes a resilient dog (or person for that matter!).

10/01/2025

As I sit looking at one of my lovely Christmas presents, it makes me think how we live in a culture that wants to ‘fit in’ and ‘people please’.

And don’t get me wrong, I have the 4thArq fleece and the NB runners and now the ridiculously expensive water bottle! I want to ‘fit in’ as much as the next person.

Every day I speak to people, when they describe their dogs behaviour, they don’t talk about the emotional distress their dog is under, or maybe the pain they are in but how they can’t bring them out because it’s so embarrassing. Or maybe they are upset people never get to know how lovely their dog really is.

We do all really want to fit in even when it comes to our dogs.

Sometimes we let people push our dogs boundaries and tolerance levels because we want to people please and we don’t want to be that odd person that says, no my dog doesn’t want to be touched today.

But how I think this hinders our dog training journey is that sometimes we struggle to ‘let go’ of what people think about us, our dog and our training.

It’s perfectly ok to advocate for our dogs even is that makes us the weird dog person 😂

We can’t be authentic to our dog training journey when the focus is on other people.

When our dog’s behaviour is not what we imagined it would be, we can often feel shame and people are always really quick to blame themselves too.

So for 2025 let’s have the courage to accept our dogs imperfections and allow ourselves to be vulnerable while trying to change what we TRULY want to change not what you think you should.

Let’s show our dogs compassion when they are struggling and let’s advocate for space or no contact for them when needed.

Let’s try to nurture the connection with them.

Let’s believe we are enough and so are they despite the fact we are working on change. They are still a good dog.

There is no need to feel any shame about how your dog is perceived. Your dog is enough, you are doing your best.

Every single person and dog you meet is imperfect in their own ways. So embrace your imperfections and let go of what people ‘might’ think about you and your dog 💪🏼

24/12/2024

From my family to your family, I wish you a very lovely Christmas and a great New Year 🎅🏼

I’ll be offline until the 3rd of January spending time with my large gang of boys 😅

08/12/2024

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08/11/2024

A puppy wha…..

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07/11/2024

Let’s use Doggie Daycare 🐶 and tennis 🎾 as an example 👇🏼

This week I have told a client of mine, that doggie daycare or a social outlet with out like minded dogs, would probably help their behaviour challenges.

This week I have told a client that, they don’t need to have doggie play date meet ups and that doggie day care may in fact ruin their training progression!

How can that be right?

Because every dog is different, every breed has different tendencies towards what makes them a happy dog, a frustrated dog, an over aroused dog!

This is why you have to be careful reading advice online and applying it yourself if you don’t have experience.

Take tennis for example, you could read all about how to play tennis online and in books and watch videos, but when you stand in front of that net, racket in hand, how useful is all the reading going to be if you have no hands on experience playing tennis?

Just a little food for thought. If you need some help, just comment ‘teach me tennis’ and I’ll send you a link to book a free call 🤭 but not about tennis, I’m terrible at that, dog training! That I am good at 😅

07/11/2024

🆘 Upsetting image 🆘 but PLEASE don’t source puppies online…you have no idea what condition mum or dad are in! Good breeders don’t need to advertise online. If you want a FREE cheat sheet on how to source a dog from a reputable breeder WhatsApp me on 0857317129 and I’ll send you details. Otherwise get on to any of the hundred rescues around the Country 🙏🏼

05/11/2024

You probably have found my account because you are struggling with training your dog❓

And sometimes it can be hard to remember why you decided to get a dog in the first place 😂

I try to start each day by journaling and always looking for three things I’m grateful for in my life. Even if things are really bad the fact I’ve woken up in a warm bed is something I am grateful 🙏🏼

Can you list three things today that you are grateful for about your dog 🤗

04/11/2024

When we talk about discipline, we are talking about using punishments to correct disobedience.Reactivity is never due to disobedience! It is when a dog becomes overly aroused in the presence of a common trigger. One reason for this is fear. Can you imagine disciplining a child because they cried when they were fearful of something?Do you think it would help develop confidence and an ability to cope in the future? Our dogs are the same. We need to address the underlying emotion causing the problem and in turn this will address the reactivity. Sure discipline can certainly suppress behaviour BUT the fall out is usually bigger than the initial problem. So quite simply you get even more reactivity in the LONG term or worse a dog that escalate barking to snapping and biting. And no one wants that!What can do you? Go back over my last few reels on reactivity 1. Make a log, 2. Manage the environment as best you can 3. Teach Alternate behaviours 4. Watch your distance and lots more videos to follow to help you on this journey.If you need more immediate help, comment FREE CALL and I will send you a link to book a chat with me to discuss how we can help your dog :-)

03/11/2024

I will still teach cues, but alternate, incompatable ones to barking and lunging.I still want to get their focus and engage their brain 🧠 If you find this helpful, pop me a follow. My aim is always to give straight forward easy to follow dog training advice!

02/11/2024

📈Ahhhh now you are all just barking together

🫨In a recent study nearly 70% of men would rather shock themselves than sit in a room being bored!

🐶So it’s certainly not hard to imagine our dogs might prefer us to shout at them rather than just sit there all day doing nothing

🚫 What can we do instead!

🥇Firstly Ensure we meet our dogs needs - physical & mental. Rule out boredom as a reason for barking. Take your dog on an enriching walk in a more natural environment like woods or park for an hour. Teach them tricks for 3 x 5 minute sessions throughout the day and feed them their meals through feeding enrichment toys

🆘 If you still are having problems with barking, comment HELP below and I’ll send you a link to book a FREE call to discuss a training plan for your dog.

📍 Where ever you are in the world I can help with my online personal training program or in North Dublin in person

01/11/2024

Is anyone else glad that’s over 🤭 I have children that adore Halloween but we have to divide and conquer one adult does all the fun with the children, while the other makes sure the dogs are coping ok. So Halloween is a bit of a mixed bag for families with pets ☺️. How did your dogs cope? 💥

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