PoochieBells Housetraining Dog Doorbell, Chocolate Brown Cold Nose Warm Heart Word Design

I purchased this set of bells this summer when we decided to adopt a puppy from a shelter. My parents have had this exact set for 6 years, so I felt very confident in my purchase. It looks adorable on our back door, and our puppy caught on pretty quickly to knocking the bells to let us know she needs to go out. I would definitely recommend bell training to anyone who adopts a puppy. You can go as cheap as tying a few jiggle bells to a looped string and it would work just fine (that’s what we used years ago with our Golden), but really it’s an eye sore. I love the “Cold Nose, Warm Heart” design. It’s simple, modern, and clean looking. The colors don’t jump out at you, and it works nicely with the interior of our house.

It's not working for my dogs. I have two, a 12 year old Cocker Spaniel who is bright and quick to pick up new tricks, lessons, and the like, (I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to run her through feldjager training when she was a pup, so she's very bright and well trained). And a 9 month old Min Pin, who is a little slower, but still bright.I got the bell for the Min Pin mostly, she was trained on potty pads by her previous owner, I don't do that here, my dogs use the outdoors. So, it was for the purpose of retraining for her, and for giving my Cocker Spaniel a signal for me. Previously she'd just sit by the door, silent, and wait for me to notice her, until sometimes I swore her eyes were crossed. That's no good, if I'm in another room, I need to know so she isn't just waiting on me to walk by.It's been nearly a month of doing exactly what the instructions say, potty time isn't play time anyways here, and my Cocker is an on command pottier anyways. So I'm not abusing the bells and letting them play when they should be associating it with potty.Neither of them have yet to ring the bell on their own. My Min-Pin would rather potty on the floor, than ring the bell, and my Cocker would rather wait on her potty breaks, or sit at the door and wait for me.:(

My puppy (Poodle) learned within a day how to ring the bells to go outside to potty. The bells are loud and I was able to hear him ring them even when I was in the other part of the house. The downside was that he also learned very quickly that I would let him go outside to play if he would simply ring the bells. I let him in and out at will until he was completely potty-trained, and never reprimanded him so he would always associate the bells as being something positive. We eventually graduated to a doggy door so he could come in and out at will, but the bells were well worth their money during the potty training process.

I bought the hanging door bells to replace a set one of my neighbors had given me to make the door look a little nicer. My neighbor had given me a string of bells that she'd picked up from the dollar store and she took off all of the bells except for the bottom one. I'd added some string on it and hung it on the door with the string. The dollar store version actually rings louder with just one bell than this item does with 4 bells. The dollar store's bell is a little bigger and gives a lower pitched ring whereas this device gives a high pitched ring that can be a little harder to hear. Also the strap is little more than ribbon. I was expecting something more around the thickness of a thin dog leash, not the case.I think you could do about the same or better with some pretty ribbon and some dollar store bells from Christmas. It looks nice but could be made a lot better.

My 2 year old lab/jack russell mix learned to use the bell in a few days. Now he drives me crazy because he loves to go in and out. LOL. I purchased it for my little chihuahua/Pomeranian pup because I knew I wouldn't notice her sitting by the door to go out. She is only about 4lbs and is able to reach the bell too.

I personally love it. It looks cute and the dogs notice. Unfortunately, so far, it scares them. The ringers are pretty loud and my dogs are still nervous. I'm hoping to reassure them soon as I think it's a great product.

Great quality. Works well. My 4 month old terrier learned how to use them in 2-3 days by lightly knocking them... Now she slams into them because she's REALLY figured it out & wants to go outside to play so bad, lol.

I didn't believe it at first when I heard that a friend's adopted dog had been trained to ring a bell to go out. When I found this item on line (after experimenting with a homemade version that was too heavy and didn't work well because bells were too large) I thought it was a good idea. It is a GREAT idea. It hangs at a height at which my short dog can easily reach it. Repetition and consistency are the keys to using this. Glad someone thought of it!

Nice product, puppy understood straight away.

sadly it hasn't worked for my dogs:((

Fantastic idea my 16 week old Patterdale took only a few days to get the hang of it no more guessing if he needs to go outside BRILLIANT !!!!