I taught Kacee to ring the bell this way. I started out by taking her paw and asking her if she wanted to go out at the same time as we rang the bell with her paw. She caught on very quickly and now runs up to the door, jumps up and rings the bell and sometimes she'll bark or make a kind of loud whining sound.
Then she'll sit down and wait for someone to come let her out. She's just past 18 weeks old and likes to ring the bell. Sometimes if she wants attention she'll ring the bell just so someone will come pay her attention, too, but that's OK.
