You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your

host Debbie Salento. Hello and

welcome to episode 92 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I want to talk about

why we don't punish potty accidents. Now if you listen to me you know that in general I minimize punishments and I favor reward-based trading.

But this is still a question I get around potty training and potty accidents because, well, I think it's for a couple of reasons.

One, it's just a very common place. It's a very standard place, old school training that we used to punish our puppy when we found an accident,

from rubbing their nose in it to just yelling at them, to even rolling up a newspaper and hitting them with it.

So maybe when you had a puppy when you were younger,

or your parents or grandparents are giving you advice,

that's how we used to potty train puppies.

But now, we know better. In fact fact most of the time when I get this question

it's all right I know I'm not supposed to punish accidents but why and what am I supposed to do

instead? Now the second part of that question,

I do answer all the way back in episode 10

under my complete guide to the potty training process.

And I'll go over what we're supposed to do in this one just to make sure we're all on the same page.

But here, I want to answer the question, why we don't we punish accidents?

Because if you follow me, you know I'm always going to take the opportunity to teach you the why behind what we do.

Especially with something like potty training because the other reason why I think this comes up a lot is because

it can be a very overwhelming process that wears on our patients. We don't want this in our house, hence why we are potty training

our dog in the first place, and while we're dealing with potty training, we're dealing

with all of the puppy stuff.

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