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Originally Posted by diva_vida  How long did it take you to train your dogs to ring the bell? I have the bells by the door, but I am inconsistent with ringing them. Did you have to ring them yourself for your pups to pick up on it or did you train them to ring it themselves? We've been working on the potty training for about 2 months and I'm getting tired of going out every hour lol. I think I might shed a tear if he learned how to ring a bell to tell me to take him out.  |
I did pretty much the same thing that Lgrand said with the bell. I did ring it for her for the first couple days since she was a little scared of it at first, and then every time I took her out I would make her hit the bell and say, "let's go potty" every time. You could also try giving a treat right after making him hit the bell. Then he would associate the bell with a treat and want to do it on his own, and then as he becomes more consistent slowly stop giving a treat every time. I did the treat method with my second dog, a Shih Tzu. He loved to eat, so this worked very well for him. He was only 9 weeks when I got him, and was potty trained in 3 weeks.