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 ai wanted to teach some words.
“Play” was next. Then “Cuddle”. Then He’d his “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.
SaintWacko@midwest.social 7 months ago
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
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I also use bells, but she doesn’t use them yet. I’m hoping she gets the hang of it soon.
navi@lemmy.tespia.org 7 months ago
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 😂.