House Training Blaze
March 7th, 2010
Blaze is 10.5 weeks old, and is doing well with his house training. Our big problem is that he goes to the door and sits to let us know he needs to potty. If we aren’t watching, we dont know that he needs to go out! Enter the poochie bells, potty training system.
Poochie Bells are potty training bells you hang from your door knob and teach your dog to ring them as a cue to let you know its time to go out. You can make your own but in my experience they aren’t loud enough. I like these bells because they are well made, have several snaps so you can lengthen or shorten your bells. They are very reasonably priced too.
Click here to purchase a poochie bell
In order to train this behavior, I pulled out the bells, showed them to Blaze and said “yes” and gave him a piece of kibble every time he nudged the bells making noise. From here on out I am hanging the bells and when its time to go potty, I am asking him to do the same behavior by holding the bells up slightly and rewarding him for nudging them with a piece of food and letting him out to potty. As he starts to do it more on his own, the treat will no longer be needed as most dogs love to go outside and that is reward enough.
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