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12-09-2009, 03:03 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
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| How to get your dog to ring a bell to signal Poddy time I found that you can train your Yorkie to ring a bell when it wants to go and poddy. With bell attached to a shoelace or string hung low enough from the door handle that the Yorkie can hit it with their paws, you can train the puppy to ring the bell whenever it needs to go out. This method works awesome. I will be sitting watching TV when i hear the bell ring and i simply open the door and let my Yorkie go...once done, the dog will run back in. While poddy training, EVERY time BEFORE you open the door, make eye contact and physically take the paw of the puppy and hit the bell. I make the dog hit the bell 3 times so that I can hear it. Then take him out to do his business. IMMEDIATELY when done, you call your dog in. My Yorkie likes to play for a while after he's done in the yard.. this can be time consuming. If you follow this routine, the dog will equate ringing the bell with allowing him to go outside. Luckily, it is winter here and he comes in right after because it's too cold for him to sniff around too long haha. In fact, sometimes I think he rings the bell just to go outside sometimes because he will ring the bell 3 times in one hour. When i figured this out, I limited him so that he knows it isn't for playing outside, just for poddy time. So buy a little bell and attach it to the door knob with some string and let it hang all the way to the ground on your back door. With consistency, and routine, it should be a week or less before your dog rings the bell when it knows it needs to go! Enjoy |
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12-09-2009, 07:03 PM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: xxxxxxxx
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| Jazzi rings a small bell that I glued on the bottom of the patio door (the glue can be removed with a razor at any time). Then outside by the door I have a plant holder that has my African Violets on it and I placed a bell with a little cat statue on it...hee hee hee...so she can slap the cat silly when she wants to come back in. She picked it up so quickly....I just slapped at the bell myself when we were preparing to go out or in. I made a game out of it and she caught on very quickly. I had to take her out several times because she too wanted to go out just to sniff....LOL>>>> I was even late for work one day because the "bell rang" and there was no way I wasn't going to answer it. She is still not trained though and I am at my witts end. she will ask to go out, then after about five minutes, wants to come in and then pees on the floor....then she has to get crated again. |
12-09-2009, 07:49 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
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| are you consistently taking her out to the same spot and waiting for her to do her business? The best time to get them accustomed is in the morning as soon as you wake up and before you feed them. After many hours in the crate sleeping, it is best to teach them that the bell and outside are for peeing. Then you have to wait for them to actually go pee and then praise immediately... then bring inside right away. This structure over and over again for a week should take care of it. You actually have to leash and stand right next to the puppy until peeing is complete. |
12-11-2009, 06:27 PM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: xxxxxxxx
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| Yes, we have a special place in the yard that is a mulched mound where we have palm trees planted. She goes up on the mound for number two and goes in the grass for number one. I'm trying to learn to read her body language when she needs to go. She is six months and she is very smart. I'm hoping that she will catch on really quick. The only thing I am not doing is the leash...she wears that when we go out to visit sombody elses yard. I'm afraid she will bolt and get away from me and get hit by a car. But in the safety of our back yard she is allowed to roam free. |
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