Cajun Confidence Dog Training

06/30/2024

SUNDAY FUNDAY FLASH SALE; 20% off ANY BOARD & TRAIN PROGRAM BOOKED TODAY 6/30/24 ONLY!

Find out more: https://www.cajuncanines.com/

05/21/2024

‼️‼️Well, would you look at that👀 ‼️‼️
✨All this grinding must be paying off 💪🏻😇✨

✨TO VOTE FOR:✨
⚜️🦞🐾“CAJUN CONFIDENCE DOG TRAINING LLC”🐾 🦞 ⚜️
for Acadiana’s CHOICE 2024- CLICK HERE👇‼️❤️✨
https://www.acadianaschoice.com

✨THANK Y’ALL SO MUCH‼️
✨This is my first year being nominated and I gotta say, it feels pretty nice! 😊
✨Especially because I LOVE helping my community and their co-pilots🥹🥰‼️

✨✨✨🐾AS A SPECIAL ❤️THANK-YOU❤️ ACADIANA
ALL TRAINING PROGRAMS WILL BE DISCOUNTED 15% UNTIL VOTING IS CLOSED FRIDAY, JUNE 21‼️‼️‼️🐾✨✨✨

05/11/2024

05/05/2024

✨MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU all this May 4th‼️
……AAAANNNDDD THIS “Revenge of the 5th” Sunday 😎
…. GOING ONTO…Monday, “Revenge of the 6th”…..😈

‼️✨😈(Both days are Sith-“always two there are, no more- no less.”)😈✨‼️

⭐️🎬 HAPPY STAR WARS WEEK 🤩🤩🤩
From me and Force ♥️😁🐺🌟🎥 ….

…In observance of the Holiday, I used the powers of
“The Force” to discount THE TOTAL COST OF ANY PROGRAM OF YOUR CHOOSING BY 4% TODAY, throughout Mother’s Day,SUNDAY the 12th at midnight ONLY‼️‼️‼️‼️

And the potential savings don’t end there...🤑🤑🤑

This LIMITED TIME DISCOUNT ⏰ can be **PAIRED** WITH EITHER ONE OF OUR OTHER DEFAULT DISCOUNTS: (For a potential 14% discount TOTAL!!!)
-(2 dog discount-10%) 🐕🐕
-(Adopted from LAS&CC-10%)❤️
-(Veteran discount-10%)🇺🇸

✨So for those of you waiting around 🕐
“trying to find a good time to start training”…🤷‍♀️

…I must remind you of what Master Yoda once said:
”DO OR DO NOT. THERE IS NO TRY.” 💯💯💯
& There couldn’t be a better time to begin you and your dog’s Jedi training journey!🦮🐕🐩🐕‍🦺

✨✨So will you answer the calling of “The Force”?✨✨

‼️CALL TODAY to chat, and we can give you a phone evaluation, so I can set up a customized plan to meet your personal goals‼️

🐾You and your family friend will be THANKING YOU later!!!🐾

📞☎️Call CAMILLE TODAY‼️

✨🐾(337)279-8137🐾✨
www.cajuncanines.com

05/04/2024

✨🩷🐾Baby Lucy🐾 stringing “Home Manners” behaviors together to build a strong foundation for her formal obedience training;😇

✨🩷🐾LUCY🐾 came earlier than our average board and train, but her goals are also MUCH BIGGER than our average board & train. ✨

✨🐾Long-term, LUCY will be training with us to become a therapy dog for her mother to take to nursing homes and hospitals to uplift patients spirits! ✨

✨🩷🐾LUCY🐾 has the IDEAL temperament for this work, but came to us at 8 weeks as a “Farm-Dog” puppy with NO experience on a leash or in a crate, and was VERY HESITANT to get on board with the program at first.

✨🐾So, I let my pack do what they do best‼️🐾✨

✨🐾They are showing her that structure is actually a GREAT thing‼️🐾✨
✨-Lucy WANTS to be a very good girl, and she notices how the rest of the pack gets praised or rewarded-
& really enjoys MODELING acceptable behavior after the older dogs… After all, that’s how she was learning before she got with us; from her mother and father(+other dogs) on the farm‼️

✨So now that we’ve utilized the pack mentality, or “follow the leader” if you will; she’s now comfortable on leash, and has a great relationship with her crate.
-She also has a basic understanding of what is and is NOT accepted of her.
-She also knows how to turn leash pressure off, or how to get rewarded.

✨So now we’re just stringing those basic behaviors together to form healthy “Home manners ” patterns.
Here, we’re practicing impulse control coming out of the crate, being put on lead, led to the door on lead with no argument, sit at the door (“door manners”)- WITH impulse control (meaning she waits for the release command “FREE” before breaking the “sit”position).✨

Stay tuned for more:

04/28/2024

Our junior handler Amelia just making sure Lucy has enough loving and rubbing- OBVIOUSLY because she has to get ready for all the Lovin’ and Rubbin’ She’s going to get in her future as a Therapy Dog 🥹🥰😇

Lucy, I see BIG beautiful things in your future, sweet girl!

Call me (Camille) today to get the life you want with your dog! (and obviously the life your dog wants 😄)
(337)279-8137

www.cajuncanines.com


04/28/2024

👏THIS 👏MAN 👏 ONLY 👏 SPEAKS 👏 TRUTH 👏‼️💯

For all of you who’ve been taught that corrections/punishment will destroy the relationship between you and your dog, and who now believe this, and are terrified to do so—let me introduce you to what you’ve not been taught.

Reality.

The reality of how your dog perceives you, and the association and relationship that develops from that perception, comes from ALL your interactions.

As I shared in the original graphic, if you were to ONLY engage in a one dimensional interaction dynamic, where you ONLY corrected/punished your dog, then you actually would undermine your relationship.

But unless you’re a sadist, I can’t imagine you’re taking on a dog only to correct/punish it. So you can relax those relationship fears. If you’re like any of the thousands of owners I’ve interacted with, you do many things with your dog—many things that have nothing to do with a negative associations. Things like I shared in the graphic: walks, play, affection, feeding, car rides, adventures etc.

When you share a multi-faceted relationship dynamic; one that is balanced with far more positive, fun, rewarding, enjoyable interactions, along with the occasional correction/punishment—which shouldn’t be fun or enjoyable—your healthy relationship is safe and sound. Your association is a healthy, balanced one. It’s both positive and negative, with the positives far outweighing the negatives.

This is why vets have it so tough. Your vet is almost always going to get the single dimensional association. Even when owners attempt to counter this association, bringing their dogs to the vet for non-visits, and having the staff give treats and pets...the scary, stressful, and sometimes painful reality of the other visits far outweigh the other positive interactions, and aren’t nearly powerful enough or frequent enough to combat the negative experience most dogs go through with typical vet visits. And so, we see the shaking, quaking, stressed out, freaked out behavior when we visit.

But back to you. Along with what I’ve shared above about relationship balance, your dog also learns that it controls its reality. It finds that negative consequences only occur when they make poor choices. Which means you are predictable in your actions, which means your dog’s world is predictable and safe...even when faced with undesirable consequences which come from you. Your dog understands that the consequences are tied to their behavior, and are anything but random. Which is also why the entire silliness about “learned helplessness” (which is also leveraged to frighten owners) is also precisely that…silliness. If your dog understands that their choices control their world, they’re anything but helpless. But that’s a topic for another day.

To sum up, if you live a normal, multi-faceted life with your dog, like everyone I’ve seen, you won’t have any fallout from correcting/punishing your dog. Zip, zero, nada. In fact, if you do a little thinking, you’ll see how easily owners accidentally create a truly dysfunctional, toxic, unhealthy relationship...by ONLY engaging in positives. Yep, you guessed it. You’ve become a one dimensional owner. One who need not be listened to, respected, or appropriately interacted with. Is that a positive association? Is that a healthy relationship? It’s certainly not how I’d define either, and it’s certainly not what I’d want for me or my dog.

Strangely, they always seem to leave these inconvenient truths out of the conversation. I wonder why?

04/28/2024

Force was AMAZING during festival international yesterday! Only thing is I forgot to get somebody to film us EFFORTLESSLY 😌💅weaving through the crowd without anybody noticing he was even there😁

THAT’S HOW A SERVICE DOG IS SUPPOSED TO BE-
UNNOTICED, UNBOTHERED, and FOCUSED on the mission 😇🩷🐺

04/19/2024

The VAST majority of dogs I work with are backyard bred rescues. Only about 15% come from legitimate breeders.

Oftentimes, people will ask me about rescue dogs:

"Was it abuse? Why are they so shy? Why do they bite? We're they abused? "

Well... yes and no.

The abuse was the backyard breeding that set these dogs up with poor genetics.

The abuse was the lack of proper exposure from an early age.

The abuse was irresponsible pet owners who didn't: 1) responsibility keep their pets intact. 2) didn't spay or neuter if they couldn't keep their dogs from reproducing.

The abuse is emotion based trainers and rescues pushing the "abuse excuse."

The abuse is people letting their "rescue dogs" get away with everything because "they were abused." Or "they were a bait dog." (Bait dogs almost never ever make it out of the fight. ) That "bait dog" was most likely a dog with bad genetics and no exposure that was roaming the streets.

The abuse is the lack of structure, boundaries, and understanding for dogs that put them in situations with unfortunate outcomes.

Does abuse happen? Unfortunately, yes. But more often than not, it's not the abuse you're lead to believe.

Focus on their future, not their past.

04/17/2024

🩷💚🩷💚

It starts with you.

Your regular daily interactions with your dog shape their behavior.

How do you incorporate good habits into your routine with your dog?

04/14/2024

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
Josh Billings

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Les Chats.

04/13/2024

Some people really have a hard time understanding this;

Dogs are dogs. They're not fur babies. They're not children. They're dogs.

That doesn't mean I don't love my dogs. It doesn't mean you can't call them your "kids" or "fur children." But for their sake, respect that they are dogs. Treat them well, but treat them as they should be.

People humanizing dogs is actually what's getting a lot of them put down, rehomed, dumped, and loaded with behavioral issues.

The best way to honor and love your dog is to respect the fact that they are different from us. That's part of what makes them so amazing!!

Bringing home a new dog and giving it whatever it wants, whenever it wants, is not setting them up for success. It may feel good to "spoil" them. I get it, but what you're actually doing is creating a brat.

I hear this often: "My dog bit our friend on the couch because he thinks the couch is his." OK, who let them think that? The dog didn't just waltz in and claim your couch. The dog wasn't given boundaries to begin with. I let my dogs on the couch, but if I tell them to get off and go to their bed, they will without hesitation. They've earned that privilege based on respect, trust, and understanding.

If you want to "spoil" your dog, do it by setting them up for success. Exercise them, give them boundaries, give them a job, and give them what they actually need instead of the latest squeaky toy. The time you spend playing with your dog means more than the toy itself.

Love your dog. Cherish your dog. Respect your dog, but for the love of the dog, TREAT THEM LIKE A DOG.

(And before anyone wants to say something silly...My dogs are my family. They literally signed my marriage certificate, but they also have boundaries. Just like any healthy family should!)

04/09/2024

✨💅🥰🐾✨
✨CONTINUING EDUCATION HUMBLE BRAG;‼️🥳✨

✨✨✨🐾 In addition to being an official AKC CGC, STAR Puppy, CGC-A, CGC-U, & AKC TRICK DOG Evaluator,
I am now also an 🥁🥁🥁✨✨✨

✨🐾❤️🥳APPROVED OFFICIAL AKC TEMPERAMENT TEST EVALUATOR‼️🤩🐾❤️✨

✨💕💪😌💅💕✨
❤️Call me, (Camille) for all your Canine Training and Behavioral needs‼️❤️

🐾🐾(337)279-8137🐾
✨www.cajuncanines.com✨

04/01/2024

😃Happy Easter and April Fools Tomorrow!!💕✨
We have immediate Board and Train openings for April!

❤️Call Camille TODAY❤️
🐾(337)279-8137🐾
www.cajuncanines.com

03/25/2024

CONGRATS JOJO ON YOUR GRADUATION TODAY of LVL 1 Ob.! I look for forward to bringing you to the next level! I’m super proud of you!

Call Camille today to get the life you and your dog deserve together!

(337)279-8137
www.cajuncanines.com

02/22/2024

Today I got to check-up on my little Boo Thang Ms Josie, because her parents wisely utilized their FREE in-home follow up after her Board & Train Graduation🎓🥰

✨She was doing WONDERFULLY and SO WERE HER PARENTS‼️🥳🤩😎✨
❣️I LOVE to see it‼️❣️
‼️***This is why I love what I do***‼️🥹😍
✨LOOK AT HER SMILE‼️😃😍🤩✨
✨She was SO EXCITED to see Auntie🥰🐾🐾

✨Call or text Camille NOW, and get the STRUCTURED LIFE you want, and the RELATIONSHIP with your dog you deserve🥰🐕🐾🐾✨

www.cajuncanines.com
(337)544-6779