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sgab80 · 12-31-2006, 02:45 PM

I taught LillyBelle to ring a bell to go out starting at about 5mos of age.
I read about it hear on YT and decided to try. I first taught her to "go ding-ding", by taking her to the bell, ringing it with her paws, saying ding ding-then gave lots of praise and a teeny tiny piece of turkey (like the size of rice)
probably did that about 10x, then about an hour later repeated the process, did the same thing the next day. It didnt take but 2-3 days, then when I said "go ding-ding" she would run to the door and ring the bell-I would praise her...HUGELY!! (is that a word?) and give her a tiny treat. Then I just went to the next step-every time I said go ding ding-she would ring the bell, then we would "go outside" to potty-when we went out I would say "go potty"
The Ding Ding was much easier to teach than - going potty outside- She was probably a year so old before she was 100% potty trained. Now she ALWAYS rings her bell to go out...if we dont hear the bell--she REALLY REALLY rings it-she's 1 and 1/2 yrs now. ..Hope thats helpful.

12-31-2006, 02:45 PM	#5
sgab80 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 214	I taught LillyBelle to ring a bell to go out starting at about 5mos of age. I read about it hear on YT and decided to try. I first taught her to "go ding-ding", by taking her to the bell, ringing it with her paws, saying ding ding-then gave lots of praise and a teeny tiny piece of turkey (like the size of rice) probably did that about 10x, then about an hour later repeated the process, did the same thing the next day. It didnt take but 2-3 days, then when I said "go ding-ding" she would run to the door and ring the bell-I would praise her...HUGELY!! (is that a word?) and give her a tiny treat. Then I just went to the next step-every time I said go ding ding-she would ring the bell, then we would "go outside" to potty-when we went out I would say "go potty" The Ding Ding was much easier to teach than - going potty outside- She was probably a year so old before she was 100% potty trained. Now she ALWAYS rings her bell to go out...if we dont hear the bell--she REALLY REALLY rings it-she's 1 and 1/2 yrs now. ..Hope thats helpful.