Academy Dog Training & Boarding Kennels

02/06/2026

🐾 Some of our Scent Teams were busy this weekend putting their training to the test at a Level 2 Scent Trial. A huge congratulations to Team Tillie who followed up a fantastic weekend at Dogitude with an amazing 🥇 1st Place in the Level 2 Scent Trial and earned enough points for her Excellence Award 🎉🏆 Team Ellie also had a brilliant day, qualifying in Level 2 with an impressive 90 points 👏🌟 We're incredibly proud of both teams and all the hard work they've put in to get here 💚🐾
Well done to you both! 🎊

27/05/2026

🐶 We also entered the Irish Agility Open Championship held at Dogitude this weekend and had so much fun running the courses 🌟 We had three dogs competing this year 💚 For Honey it was her first proper show and she handled it all like a pro even gaining enough points through the league to earn her place in the Speedstakes Final 👏 (great achievement for a beginner ❤️ 🐾). Over the two days Tillie picked up a 3rd place and a 2nd place, and also enough points to get into the final where she picked up an amazing 2nd place 🏅. Our Zoey was also busy picking up a 3rd place, 3 x 2nd places and 2 x 1st places which included clear rounds (and now moves Zoey up to Grade 5 💪) Zoey also went onto to pick up 3rd place in the finals 🏅. Massive thank you to the organizers and the fantastic facilities, the judges and their great courses and to Leela for all the great pics 👏 As always looking forward to next year already 💚🐾

26/05/2026

🐶 What a weekend at Dogitude 2026 🐶 … Our Flyball teams were back in action at the weekend showing off their Flyball skills to the crowds at Causey Farm. Two days of racing, excitement and the dogs doing what they love 🐕 This doesn’t happen by accident, behind every run is hours of training, creating focus around distractions and teaching the dogs how to channel all that excitement into working as part of a team 🐾That’s the bit we love the most, watching the dogs and their people develop together along the way ❤️ Thank you to everyone who came over to support us and cheer the teams on 🙌 And thank you to the Dogitude organisers for inviting us along and giving us the opportunity to showcase the sport 💚🐕 and thank you to Caoimhe for all the great pics of the dogs and the team 📸🔥…Hopefully we inspired a few more people to give Flyball a go ❤️ 🐾

01/05/2026

Flyball foundations last night for some of the new dogs joining in with the regular group. One of the new dogs has loads of drive and just loves to get a chase at their toy. The challenge? 👉 That will be learning to focus when other dogs are running 👀, but that’s where the training comes in …….We also slowed things down, no pressure, no rushing, just clear steps forward and spent time building confidence with the dogs. Confidence with being handled (especially when it comes to being handled by someone else ✔), and confidence in play ✔. That’s how it begins - not perfect, not finished, but moving in the right direction.
If your dog has energy but struggles with focus—you’re not alone. This is exactly what we work on.
👉 I’ll be opening a few more spots soon—message ‘FLYBALL’ if you want details.

29/04/2026

25/04/2026

24/04/2026

🐶 Welcome back Flyballers 🥎🐕🐕..Last night was the first night back for our 2026 Flyball Season 😃 Great to see everyone back and catching up from last year (and we had the most amazing weather).☀️🔥