My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.

  • SeemsNormal@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I heard you could train your dog to tell you when they need out by putting a bell on the door. I didn’t have a bell, but did have empty beer can and random nuts and bolts.

    She learned to knock over my beer if she wants out.

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      6 months ago

      You can train your dog to do way more than just ring when he wants out. I have a cat that I trained, he now has 12 buttons in the same location, with concepts like “later” and “now”, “yes” and “no” etc. The fact that I sometimes need to argue with my own cat that indeed he was fed already and treats are not an option is ridiculous to a lot of people. The cat gets incredibly excited once I get new buttons (but they’re expensive, so I don’t do that often). Some time ago a friend was teaching their maltese puppy to use buttons for a walk. I spent half an hour with it, got it to push buttons, got it to recognize that button = treat, later got it to recognize different buttons do different things. Training a dog is easy mode once you’ve trained a cat lol

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      6 months ago

      Incredible. I have bells on my doors, but my dogs don’t use them. They go to the door and stare at me when they have to go out. I’ve developed a sixth sense to tell when a dog is watching me lmao

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        6 months ago

        Best my pup can do is sniff the bell which makes the quietest ‘tink’ and unless I am in the room I have no idea .