YNP #096: Is Pet Insurance Worth It?
Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog
Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It can be counter intuitive but when your puppy has a potty accident, we shouldn’t punish them.
You may feel that you need to do something to let them know “this is wrong”.
Or maybe you know that you’re not supposed to punish your puppy’s potty accidents but you’re not sure why.
In general, I discourage using punishment as a form of teaching your puppy anything. But this question comes up a lot around potty training.
In Episode #10: (Complete Guide to Potty Training Your Puppy), I talk about what to do when your puppy has an accident. Punishment is never part of it.
In this episode, I’m going to talk about why that is.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why I get this question around potty training.
- What I mean by “punishment”.
- What we are supposed to do with potty accidents.
- Why dogs learn better when told what to do (instead of what not to do).
- How puppies don’t know going potty inside is wrong (yet!).
Press play and enjoy!
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/compare-pet-insurance-quotes/
https://www.pet-insurance-university.com/guide_to_pet_insurance.html
Other resources mentioned and related to this episode:
YNP #010: Complete Guide to Potty Training Your Puppy
YNP #039: The Most Common Potty Accidents
YNP #079: Are You Still Struggling With Potty Training?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your |
| 0:16.8 | host Debbie Salento. Hello and |
| 0:29.0 | welcome to episode 96 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today we are going to talk all |
| 0:36.3 | about pet insurance. So we're taking a little bit of a break from dog behavior and dog training and it's not the most interesting topic but I think it's |
| 0:46.4 | very important to talk about and I know this because I get this question all of the time and I haven't done an episode on this beforehand because I've never |
| 0:57.6 | had any personal experience with it. I've never looked into it before. You know, I've never priced it and I've never had it. |
| 1:04.6 | But now for this episode, I have some knowledge |
| 1:08.8 | and some experience from my previous life |
| 1:11.8 | where I understand insurance a little bit and how it works. |
| 1:15.7 | I found a website that was a wealth of information that I'm going to link to in the show |
| 1:21.0 | notes. |
| 1:22.0 | And also I did my own research for myself. |
| 1:24.5 | I went and I got quotes and I looked at the differences and I did some comparison to really |
| 1:29.7 | kind of understand like what are the different components? |
| 1:32.3 | How much does this cost? |
| 1:34.2 | And is it worth it? |
| 1:36.6 | Which is the question I usually get. |
| 1:39.6 | So I'm hoping by the end of this episode you'll have a better understanding of what's involved |
| 1:46.3 | in Pet Insurance and help you make the decision of yes I think I want to look into this further or yes I definitely want it because if that's the |
| 1:56.7 | answer as I mentioned before there's a website that has a lot of information on it so instead of making this like an hour long episode I'm |
| 2:04.7 | going to send you there. So for now I want to talk about what I want you to |
| 2:09.8 | think about when you think is pet insurance worth it for me is it for me so I think this |
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