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How does your dog tell you that he/she needs to go? Sophia will bark at us. Then we ask do you want food? do you want water? do you want to go outside? And she'll bark at which one she wants. Brody, we're still working on house training. He hasn't had an accident in 12 days, but I think it's just because we're being proactive and taking him out before he goes inside. I'm trying to figure out whether Brody will learn to tell us, or if some dogs just rely on you sensing that they need to go!! Thank you!! |
:D Harry's reached the point where he'll come and find me :thumbup: Of course, I'm normally in the kitchen, slaving away (;) :D). Suddenly he'll sort of land on the back of my knees (he's quite the little teapot, so I usually crash into the oven at that point!) and then he'll rush to the back door...looking round and checking I'm following him - little terror! :D Sally + Harry x |
Peek A Boo will look at me until I see him, then runs towards the door. He'll repeat this until I see him. Tinkerbell learned from him, but she'll bark at me. Finny has started to go towards the door, I think she's still leary at times about going outside... she will go with Tink. Sapphire is mainly PeePad trained, but she does enjoy just being outside. The other day when you were here, I walked her, but she didn't pee till we came back in the yard! IDK! |
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We trained Toki to ring a bell (a privilege which she abuses! lol) and she does sometimes ring it to use the bathroom but most of the time she just loiters by the front door and looks at us. She'll throw in a couple of growls if we don't get the picture or notice her haha We haven't had accidents in I don't even know how long (it seems like a few months) so we're doing pretty good in the housebreaking department! My sister's older yorkie has a little potty song-and-dance routine (I've seen her stand on her back to legs and flail her front paws while growling/whining) if she's gonna bust but otherwise she just waits until we take her out...she can hold it a pretty good while but still gets to go out regularly so she doesn't usually have to let us know. |
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I think your Brody will catch on, what got Joel to go to the door was if he even went a couple feet from the door I would say "oh you have to go potty" and I would take him out, even if he was just walking around,lol but he caught on quick:) |
Morgan will whine at you and then he goes to the door |
Georgie stands at the sliding glass door and whines. If we don't hear him he will leave us a present:eek: we don't get upset with him we know he tried to tell us. |
For a couple of years, we just had to keep Chloe on a schedule. We had the toughest time teaching her to let us know. Then we finally got a house with a fenced in backyard. Now she will go to the backdoor and whine. If we don't catch on quick enough, she'll come get us and then race us to the door. Often times, she'll scratch at the glass too once we get close. The trick is figuring out when she's whimpering because wants more food, more attention, or to go out! :) She's training us though. -C |
Max will run to the door and repeat until I notice most of the time. When he has an accident, he'll run and jump on my lap and shower me with kisses. That's how I know when I have to go hunt it down. LOL! |
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It seems like running to the door is most common! |
I tried the bell training... I think it was starting to work, but then Sapphire became totally freaked out about it and would run the other way, so I stopped using it. I may bring it out again and she if she can at least tolerate it. Plus she mostly uses the peepad so if the other 3 catch on, that would still be a good thing! I do wait for one to tell me they want out, but alot of times I'll just go ahead and let them out and tell them to go potty, usually I make sure they go out about every 3-4 hours. Especially after nap time, playtime, and grooming too. |
He barks at the door. Obnoxiously. lol. He does like one loud YIP and it always scares the crap outta me. |
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What I did was just every time I took Toki outside to use the bathroom, I'd use her paw to hit the bells that are hanging by our door...sometimes I'd also just kick the bells myself as we went outside...she picked this up over a couple of days! Very quick! We probably started this when she was 4 or 5 months? I honestly don't remember but I wanted to see if she would take to them and she did! Like I mentioned before, sometimes she just rings them for attention but other times Toki will totally body check the bells when she means business lol. I guess it's kind of like your dog is training you with the bells but once you know the potty schedule, you can spot the fake outs :) |
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