Puppy tax
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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That's so awesome! Make sure to kennel train the pup now or it will be hell later
She was kennel trained months ago. She's 9 months now and has regressed with potty training because her routine and living situation changed 4 times in her life. I got injured and had to stay with my parents for a while and just as she started getting used to the changes, we moved back home. She also is still figuring out how to communicate with me in a way that I understand. She has trouble asking to go outside a lot of the time.
We use a string of bells hanging from the back door. It took my pup about half a day to figure out that if he rang the bells we'd let him outside
We have bells.
About ½ the time, she makes a gesture towards the bell, misses, and just barks at me.
Then, occasionally, she'll get excited by the bark, find a stuffie, and forget that she even wanted to go outside. The things we do for love.
I also use bells, but she doesn't use them yet. I'm hoping she gets the hang of it soon.
Note: hang the bells next to the door so the dog doesn't associate every door open with ringing the bells. This helped us on puppy number two not trying to ask to go outside to play 😂.
Mate, that's ruff. Ha!
Serious, I got a few talk buttons set up for my 1 year old pup (as of yesterday). First button I taught was "Outside". First it was treat training to teach him how to press buttons, which was very fast. Then I recorded "Outside" to one. Whenever he stood at the door, I'd press it, then open the door. Didn't matter if he actually wanted to go out or not. Or I'd get him to press it with a treat, but his first reward was opening it before the treat. Very quickly (matter of days) he knew to hit the "Outside" button and I'd get up and open the door.
A common alternative to this is a bell at the door, but I wanted to teach some words.
"Play" was next. Then "Cuddle". Then he'd.combo hit "Play cuddle" and realised that meant specifically rough housing. Then "Outside play" meant walk, so I made a button for that.
I think next is some harm ones like if he's trying to say he has pain, plus some yes and no, then I think we're good and both happier for it.
Seriously give it a go. It's really not that hard.
Edit: Oh, and the best part is he knows the word "outside" means a door opens to go outdoors. So doesn't matter where he is, outside means outside. Can be at a friend's place, "Do you want to go outside?" he runs to a door, it opens, he goes and does his business.
I use bells on my door and my beagle uses them most of the time. Both of my dogs know what words mean and my beagle is very capable of communicating. It just took him time to learn how to tell me things. If I am unsure of what he wants, I tell him to show me, and he'll walk to whatever he wants. Like the door or his food bowl.