GoGo Bell Dog Doorbell for Housebreaking/Housetraining Door Bell/Potty Training Your Poochie to Let You Know When they Need to Tinkle (White, Qty 1)

If you are looking for a nice looking loud bell this is the one for you. I work night shift and sleep during the day so I worry about my pup having to pee while I'm sleeping. So I actually have two. One upstairs near the bedroom for while I'm sleeping (he stays up there with me while I'm in bed) and one by the door downstairs. It works great. Nice and loud and easy to ring. The only thing some people may not like is that it rings for a while. It hangs off a metal arm and bounces so if you hit it hard it keeps bouncing for a while. It's not a problem for me-I just hold it still for a second before letting go and it stops the momentum. I actually kind of like it because I don't know if I would wake up from one short ring. Another great thing is this mounts to the wall and holds the bell out away from the wall. (I actually bent it out a little more so it was farther from the wall) So it's easy for him to get to, adjustable since u can mount it anywhere on the wall, and it's away from the wall so I don't have any scratch marks in my paint from him trying to paw at it! And if you don't want to mount it to the wall I'm sure you could use the extra strength command strips or something similar to hold it up. I also chose this over the hanging bells on the string because if I got that kind I know he would just want to play with it.

I made a homemade version of this "doggie-doorbell" years ago for a German Shepherd puppy that I was training, he learned how to ring my old version very well, the only problem I had with the one I made was - it did swing across the door because it was hanging on the door knob, so therefore it marked up the door, also when ever someone came in or out the door it would ring, so you did not always associate hearing it with the dog ringing it to go outside.I recently acquired a little Norfolk Terrier, so when I saw the "GoGo Bell" on Amazon, I thought this is very clever since it does not swing across the door it will not mark up the door. After receiving the Bell, I placed it on to the door itself for a few days, using a "command-strip" adhesive tape so that I could remove it after the first few days of training.Dogs associate words and sounds, along with consistent actions when you are training them, so each time the door opened and closed he would hear the little bell ring. Then each time we would take "Tator" out to go potty, we would also say-the-words and give the bell a little ring. Within two days, he had learned that when the bell rings, it means the door is opening, so he would run over to the door as soon as he would hear it.On the third day, I moved the bell off of the door itself, by pulling the command-strip off, and I attached it about six inches to the right side of the door frame, down at his eye level (with another command-strip so it doesn't make holes in the wall using screws or nails). Days 3 and 4, every time we take him out to go "potty", we say the words and touch the bell.On day 5 we were sitting at the supper table and we heard the little bell ring, I looked surprised at my husband and went around the corner, Tator had rung the bell and was sitting in front of the door waiting to go outside. Needless to say, we were thrilled that he had learned the connection with the bell so fast.Today, the day of this review, it has been 7 days since I received the bell, and Tator rings it every time he wants to go out now. Good product and great idea, it works well with a little time and training!

Put this on my entry door. Love it. Sweet sound, easy to install.

This bell is a great idea and really worked wonders for our doggo. At first she was a little confused and afraid of the bell, so every time we would go outside we would grab her paw and drag her over to it and ring the bell. After a while she got the hang of it and actually got excited to ring the bell, to the point she would just go crazy and ring it a dozen times before going outside. We live in a maze of an apartment building on the top floor and have to pass through an elevator door and 2 more doors to get outside. Every time we approach one of these doors she goes up to the corner of it and starts "ringing" and imaginary bell on her way out it is the cutest little potty dance.Now that we are past the story let me get down to the details. The bell itself seems well constructed for its purpose. It has a slight curve and a decent shape that it will still ring without bouncing around too much. Now the reason I had to take a star though is that the included packaging came with a couple of very tiny very inefficient screws. Our doggo is really just a tiny pupper and has no real strength behind her swing (Boston Terrier), yet she was able to knock out one of the screws pretty easily and almost immediately tried to eat it up. I recommend using your own screws to mount it, something that digs into the frame a little deeper for a better hold.