Hey guys, it's Hannah Brandigan here, and I'm excited to bring you episode number 53 from the Toilet, the podcast about the reality

of training with positive reinforcement. Fifty-three isn't a particularly significant number.

I guess it is prime, but that doesn't really have anything to do with dog training.

But let's talk about dog training. What can we talk about dog training? Well, I've gotten a lot

of questions lately and requests to talk about puppies. And, of course,

you really have to twist my arm to get me to spend a podcast talking about puppies. I'm completely

happy to talk about puppies because, you know, in the dog world, even this time of year,

we don't really get spring fever. We get poppy fever. And it's not even seasonal because I pretty much have it year

round. In fact, one of the things that I'm thankful for my husband for, in addition to reaching

the taller cabinets without a stool, opening jars when necessary and killing bugs, none of which I

need him to do. I could totally do myself. I have the means I am a modern woman. But he does impose

some limits that prevent me from having like 30 dogs, which I probably wouldn't be able to take

care of. And I would just have 30 more things to feel guilty about. But as it is, he does kind of keep

me more or less in some kind of reasonable bounds. But whenever we talk about puppies, all these

questions come up

because we all have a lot of questions. I have a lot of questions too. And we all, if it's not your

first puppy at least, which I would expect most people listening to this podcast have had a dog before,

if not a puppy before. And one of the things that goes through all of our minds is as we're

screwing up our current dog,

well, with my next dog, with my new puppy, I will do a much better job. I won't make these

mistakes. And we all know what that means are just going to make all totally different mistakes,

which is good. That's good because making different mistakes is progress. So that's definitely

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