Short answer, no. It's not necessary.

Research and position statements mentioned in this episode can be found below!

Least Intrusive Minimally Aversive (excuse me for pronouncing it wrong, allergies were wrecking my head while recording this episode, haha!): https://m.iaabc.org/about/lima/hierarchy/

AVSAB's Position Statement on Punishment: https://avsab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Punishment_Position_Statement-download_-_10-6-14.pdf

IAABC's Position Statement on Dominance Theory: https://m.iaabc.org/about/position-statements/dominance/

Simply put, punishment is just going to cause more problems 99.99% of the time. 

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Intro music credit to Kevin May. https://soundcloud.com/kevin_may