Puppy Training Bells

Recommended by professional trainers, the Poochie Bells hang securely from your doorknob. With a 95% training success rate, it won’t be long before your dog is telling you when nature calls with his Puppy Training Bells. No more trying to read that puppy body language! Available in a variety of prints including Paisley or Dune Stripe.

Train your dog or puppy to tell you when it’s time to go out
Trainer-recommended, with a 95% training success rate
Includes suggested house training tips

Try our Puppy Training Bells – and put the power in their paws.

As with any training method, results depend on the consistency and effort put into training your dog. Our system is based on the great psychologist Ivan Pavlov’s discovery, that one form of learning is a result of repeated stimulus. By ringing the bells each and every time the dog is to go outside (creating a stimulus), your dog will learn to associate the stimulus of the bells with the ability to go outside. No dog is too old to learn this behavior.

     Step 1 Hang the loop of the Training Bells on the inside doorknob (or hook) of the door(s) that your dog typically exits the house. Your Training Bells will hang down approximately 25 inches. Each unit is made to accommodate both small and large breeds. Your dog only needs to nudge any part of the Training Bells unit in order to make the bells ring. Training Bells should stay on the door at all times so that your dog can access them whenever they need to.

     Step 2 Every time you take your pooch outside to potty, state a simple command phrase. We suggest
"Outside...Ring the Bells". Get your family involved! All members of your household should be consistent and use the same wording and actions with your dog.

     Step 3 After stating your command phrase, ring your Training Bells in front of the dog. The dog should see AND hear the bells.

     Step 4 After ringing the bells and saying your command, follow through with praise and allow your dog to go outside. It is important that you NOT reward your dog with a food treat, as they will associate the ringing the bells with receiving food. Also, we suggest that you not use that time to play with your dog outside so they don’t associate ring time with playtime. The dog will eventually associate ringing the bells with going and the praise they receive from their favorite person, you, is reward enough! DO THIS EACH TIME YOUR DOG IS TO GO OUTSIDE. CONSISTENCY IS KEY!

     Step 5 After several weeks of this conditioning, continue to say the phrase you’ve been using each time your dog wants to exit the house. Tell them "Outside...Ring the Bells" and point to the Training Bells. Praise them once they ring the bells and allow the dog to go out. If the dog does NOT ring the bells, you ring the bells, restate your command phrase and then allow the dog outside.

     Step 6 Each following week, repeat this conditioning until your dog starts to ring the bells on their own. It is critical that you praise your dog on his newly learned behavior to reinforce this action.

Remember to always listen for the bells, even if you are in a different part of the house from where you’ve hung your Training Bells. When you hear them ring… let your dog out!! Your dog can now communicate without barking, whining or having accidents in the house.

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Good Value (42), Fun (37), Versatile (21), Tough (20)

Best Uses :

Younger Pets (39), Smaller Pets (29), Larger Pets (25), Older Pets (22), Travel (11)

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Jingle All The Time!!!

By Jay

from Waco,TX on 01/31/2010

Durable, Easy to Use, Effective

Active Dogs, Large Dogs, Puppies, Small Dogs, Work Dogs

New Pet Owner

Bottom Line :

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

It works wonderfully! My Yorkie caught on quickly.

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Let it ring...

By C-Space

from Palm City FL on 01/17/2010

Fun, Good Value

Training a new puppy has been interesting, the bells have made it fun. Our older dog barks when she wants to go outside and we wanted to stop the barking of 2 dogs. Now, with the bells the new puppy is teaching the "old dog new tricks"!

The Bells are Ringing

By Jilly J.

from Babylon, New York on 01/07/2010

Fun, Good Value, My dog loves it, Safe, Sturdy, This is a great product, Versatile

Cons :

None

Any pet could use this, Larger Pets, Older Pets, Smaller Pets, Younger Pets

Long-time Pet Owner

Our adopted Tibetan Terrier 1&1/2 years old loves these bells. Although housebroken she quickly within a couple of hours took to ringing bells when she wants to go outside. When she would dance about (her way of saying out) we just went and rang the bells and said "do you want to go out" By the third time she rang the bells which we heard from another room..Love this product. Would recommend to anyone with pets young or old.

Did not think it would work! Amazing!

By Lyndy Loo

from South Carolina on 01/07/2010

Fun, Good Value, Tough, Versatile

Larger Pets, Older Pets, Smaller Pets, Travel, Younger Pets

Potty training was taking forever! A friend told me about using bells-- I was very skeptical but pleasantly amazed of how easy it was to use!! My children got into it and now it is rare to have an indoor accident. Our dog rings the bell--if you are not there in her time period, she swipes the bells harder as though she is saying "Hello--outside please!!"

Amazing! Had my doubts but very amazed.

from Columbia, SC on 12/17/2009

Fun, Versatile

Our dog caught on very fast and all members were on the same page during the training. It is funny now to see everyones head pop up when the bell rings and go to let the dog out before she has an accident. She thinks that we are trained--not her!

Can it be true?

By Joy

from Peekskill, NY on 12/11/2009

For puppy training

I was really skeptical but ordered anyway. After 4-5 tries using command suggested on directions, our 4 month old French Bulldog started going to door and ringing the bells! I still was skeptical and thought she was playing with them. Nope. If I ignored it she would then go over to pad and pee! Since she is a puppy I have to be prepared for much bell ringing!

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Worked in 3 days

By Beth

from Atlanta GA on 12/10/2009

Fun, Good Value, Looks nice

Hung this from the main door to the backyard and said the suggested "ring the bells" every time we took our puppy outside. Within 3 days he was ringing the bells on his own and hasn't had an accident in the house yet. Wish I had purchased it before the puppy came home, so we could have had it ready for him from day one.

Poochie Bells a success

By Kel

from Pleasanton, CA on 12/10/2009

Fun, Good Value, Versatile

All Dogs

I purchased the bells because my children would ignore the dogs when they sat by the door wanting out to go the bathroom. It took the dogs less than a week to learn that when they ring the bell they get let out. Now when I leave my kids in charge our dogs don't have accidents next to the door.

So it trained both my children and the dogs. My children are 9 and 11 years old and two of the dogs are 1 and the third is 12.

Perfect!

By Calvin and Hobbes

from Delafield, WI on 11/17/2009

Good Value

Younger Pets

I have two puppies - so trying to train them both at the same time hasn't been easy, but the bells sure help! We are ajust getting started, but I think they are going to catch on!

Works great for my Basenji-barkless dog

By Teresa

from Saint Louis, MO on 11/11/2009

It's great for my Basenji since he doesn't bark. The only downside is sometimes he just thinks it's fun to get me to the door and then he decides he doesn't want to go out.

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