[gt350mike]

I trained my Lab to ring the bell when she was about 3 months old. From the time I got her home as a pup, I started out teaching her the commands "inside" and "outside" whenever I took her out of her kennel or out of the house. Afterwards, it was easy teaching her to ring the bell to go out of the house.

It was pretty "cute" trick until she started ringing the bell at 3:00 am and we would run downstairs only to find out that she didn't want to go outside to potty, she only wanted someone to play with her...........it only took her about 4 months to figure out that she could ring the bell and within a minute, she had a playmate! After that, we kept her in the kennel during bedtime.