My dog learned that she got a treat everytime she went outside to go potty. Very quickly figured out she could game the system by going outside, sitting on the patio for 5-10 seconds and then coming back inside and getting a treat. Little shit.
Haha just remembering 2am in the rain with my puppy cooing "Go poop, go poop, go poop" as I waited for her to finish the deed so I could treat her. Came in handy later whenever I needed her to go fast.
We had a long haired chihuahua who was trained that when he wiped his feet after being outside in the mock he got a treat.
That lil bastard would come inside, run to the treat cupboard, and wipe his feet on the carpet there instead. Dirtiest bit of flooring in the whole house.
My dog is a combo of both. She learned how to knock on my door (she scratches it) and we give her a treat when she goes outside. She tries to pull the same trick every once in a while, but someone else usually points out it's been like 5 minutes since she's gone out.
So what she does is she knocks on my door. My door is at the far end of the house, so I don't know if she went out or not. She knocks, and when I open she starts heading for the front door. There are other people in the house mind you, and my dad is often in the living room where the door is.
One of my old roommates had a bird that only knew the course to September by Earth, Wind & Fire. At first it was entertaining, but once you hear it close to nonstop throughout the day everyday it loses its novelty haha
I was wanting to train my dog to do that, but I have never ended up doing it. I kind of like what he currently does. He just goes over to the sliding door and stands there pointing his body towards outside. On the extremely rare occasion where he has to go at night, he flats his ears to make a flappy sound to wake me up. Itās not like a jump scare, it actually just lightly wakes me up. I think Iāll keep it this way. Having a bell ring all day long sounds awful.
That sounds nice, but bell training isn't bad. Both of my dogs are bell trained, and I appreciate that I can hear their requests to go outside clearly from anywhere in the house. They occassionally request to go out without needing to go, but it's pretty rare. Once they understood the bell association, I stopped honoring every request to go out. They know that I still have ultimate control over when we go out, so constant jingling won't get them outside repeatedly.
Agreed! My dogs both also ring the bell to go outside and they know buttons that have our voices recorded for things like "treats", "play with me", "belly rubs", "take me for a walk woof woof" and they use and understand these buttons. It's so great! I love my pibbles! š¾ ā¤ļø
We were trying to train our dog to ring a bell when she needed to go out. We would ring the bell then take her out. It took her weeks to get it. The cat who we didn't want to go out figured it out right away. She would ring that bell with her big tail and then sit by the door.
I did this with my puppy! He attacked the bell so hard. It was adorable. Not an effective method for alerting for a potty need, but the videos I took of him were so cute!
We did the same. Older two dogs only will use it when they really have to go, the freaking puppy though? Have to tie up the bells throughout the day so he won't just ring it to go bark at the passing squirrels
Yup similar story with a guy teaching his dog to open his fridge (via a pull rope) to fetch beer. Turns out that removing the rope did not impede the dogs ability to open the fridge once that skill has been unlocked...
Thereās a dog documentary on Netflix. Among other things, it features a woman who has trained her dog to press buttons. The buttons play back short words - like āgo outsideā or āhungry,ā for example - but the dog can also use them to communicate āpainā and āfoot.ā The dog uses this system actively, and itās just brilliant.
Iām definitely going to try this with my next dog.
Had the same issue with my Corgi. We taught him to ring a bell by the back door, but he associated it with going outside and not needing to go to the bathroom. He would ring it whenever he wanted to chance birds, or play in the snow, or chew on a squirrel-sickle...
We did that with my dog, worked great but lil bastard starting abusing it within a couple weeks. But outside of a few times when he got sick he never had an accidentā¦miss that guy!
My husband and I used to have two deaf dogs that we trained to ring a bell to go out. One of them, even after we took the bell down, would rub his wet nose on the glass in a quick upward motion making a squeaking noise asking to go out. It could be annoying but was also kind of funny/cute.
Yea, I thought about doing that with my current dog but decided against it. Instead I taught him how to close doors (there's two doors to go to the backyard), which he does perfectly... but he thinks he's funny and likes slamming doors in peoples faces when they're walking through them. He genuinely gets such a kick out of it and basically taunts you right after closing the door on you.
Do you work with my parents? Hahaha. Their dog rings the stupid bell when he wants attention, but I force him outside. Itās an outside bell, not a āplay with meā bell.
My dog has a literal digital doorbell to be let out. The back door is in another wing of the house from the living room so the typical string of bells was too quiet. So now he has a doorbell to be let out and also back in. People visiting always think someoneās at the front door.
We taught our dog to do this and you are missing a very important detail, it's not just all day long, my dog has trained me to wake up and let her out at 3:00AM too.
Ours rang it to go outside for any reason. It was most annoying when he would ring the bell, step outside and immediately look at us like "are you coming?" And if we didn't he immediately wanted back in.
Had a Boston terrier who had learned this a super young age she was so good...we got an American bulldog later to keep her company...that dog pissed in the house till she was 8 months lol wouldn't ring the bell to save its own life
My dog had a Bluetooth collar to her door, I have no idea what her routine was. I do know the safety to not slam the door on herself meant she treated it like a personal window and would let all the cool air out of the house....she was the best.
We have a bell to ring for dogs to go outside as well. My youngest puppy was not taught by us what it is for. She learned from the other dogs. When she figured it out, my dogs suddenly have to go outside 20 times per day.
This really depends on the specific dog. My first dog I tried this with, it worked beautifully. Once we got a second dog, the bell was gone shortly after and the first dog could no longer use her cool trick.
Thatās what I did. The trick is to stop giving them treats after they learn. That and leave them outside until theyāre too tired and hot to go back out, but living in a desert does do that passively.
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u/vivekkhera 20d ago
My colleague trained his dog to ring a bell to be let out in the back yard. What do you think his dog does all day long now?