Jenna Hayes, CPDT-KA

Jenna Hayes is a certified professional dog trainer (CPDT-KA) who works exclusively with positive, force-free methods. She started Paw Schooled because so much dog-training advice online is either outdated punishment-based nonsense or a thinly disguised ad for a course.

For every program she reviews, she enrolls and actually works through it with real dogs, checks that the methods are science-based and force-free (never shock or prong collars), and judges the curriculum, instructor credentials, support and value. She leads every guide with what you can do for free, because for most single issues a good free resource and a little consistency is genuinely enough, and recommends a paid program only when an owner wants a complete step-by-step system. See exactly how we review.