Tinkle Bells
We invested in some "tinkle" bells ($10 on ebay) They have bells on the top, middle and bottom of the piece of fabric. They have been so incredibly successful in teaching Dahlia to go outside. She is 11 weeks old now, and she is completely house-broken. She has been house-broken for awhile now. You hang the bells on the door and then when they are first learning, you tap their paw to the bell and take them out for a walk using a key phrase (pee pee time, or potty or outside etc) Now, when Dahlia has to go out, she runs to the back-door and hits her paws to the bell until we come running. We can hear the bells anywhere in our house, so it has been very successful. I am so proud of her!   She does knock at them on occassion to play, but, we have been able to distinguish her "knocking" as just playing and "kicking it" as "come on, I need to pee!" |
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| I have seen them at Wally World also. |
| That sounds great. My sis in law uses them for her 3 dogs. Works like a charm. Have you crate trained Dahlia or has she had free range of the house since the beginning? Or perhaps she has free range now since she is trained??? |
 Good puppy! Jack uses bells, but only I can hear them. Short of getting some deep chimes so DH could hear them too, I'm in charge of responding. Jack will nose them and then step back and turn around looking towards my office or into the kitchen, depending where I am, "Can you hear me??...........NOW!" |
| WE used something similar that we bought at our local store to help House break Luna. At 10 months she was still having accidents in the house while her sister had been house broken for months, Within days of getting the bells, she was house broken! The nice thing about the bells is that if you travel, you can take them with you, hang them in the door of whatever unfamiliar place you are staying, and the dogs can still effectively let you know that they need to go out. |
| Yea, Dahlia, good girl |
| Dahlia is crate trained. She has been using her crate since Day 1---and she loves it. I wouldn't leave her out able to roam since she could get into something. She likes to chew corners of the area rug or coffee table or whatever her little puppy teeth can get into. Although, she is very rarely not being watched, she tests me even when I am sitting in the room with her. If we are not home, she goes in the crate. And actually, she takes her daytime naps in there as well. She loves the crate in the car. We lift her in to the SUV since she still isn't able to jump up that high and she walks right in to it and lays down and passes out. You are right about the bells being able to bring them with you wherever you go. This was also our plan since we will be traveling with Dahlia and she also will be spending a few days with her grandparents/aunts/cousins etc when we have other obligations where you can't bring a dog. This way, they can hang them on their door and it will be familar to her, and hopefully, fingers crossed----no piddles! |
| I trained Tiggy to ring some bells on the door to go out in the hope of preventing potty accidents. Unfortunately Tiggy is smarter than me. She rings the bells during the night when she is lonely and wants me to come and say hello. She does go out but then turns around and wants to come straight back in. If it's wet outside (like all this summer) then she conveniently forgets about the bells and pees on the tile instead of getting her feet wet.  I had to go back to putting her in her pen at night. |
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