Mighty PawSmart Bell 2.0 – Potty Training Button for Dogs & Puppies – Train Your Dog to Ring The Bell – Wireless Pet Communication (1 Pack)

Love this product because it is/was easy to install and set up. We chose the two transmitters version so our dog can let us know when he wants to go out, and when he is ready to come inside. Additionally, training our dog to use Smart Bell has taken out the stress of worrying about our canine family member needing to go out to do his business, or simply wants to enjoy the backyard, or when he is ready to come back inside because he now communicates using this system.Installation: Smart Bell comes with everything needed to install and includes several 3M sticky pads for mounting the transmitters without drilling holes in the wall, etc. After a couple trial installations for the inside transmitter, we finally settled on attaching it to the inside glass of the door opposite the outside transmitter (see photo). WARNING: The sticky pads work very, very, well and the transmitter is not easily removed if you decide to move it. In our case, we tried two different locations on the drywalls and I used a putty knife with some effort to carefully pry it off without damage to the paint/wall.Training: Key to the training was to get our dog interested in the transmitter (button) to begin with, achieved by smearing a tiny bit of peanut butter on the button face. Because he was a puppy at the time, he was not pressing hard enough to actuate the bell when he licked at the peanut butter. That got him interested and what finally worked was to wipe a high-value treat across the face of the button, leaving its scent. He could smell the treat and began pressing with his nose and using his paw looking for the treat, activating the bell. As soon as the bell sounded, we opened the door, praised him, and offered him a treat outside the door to get him to go outside. We used the same method to get him to activate the bell to come in. Being highly "treat" motivated he quickly associated the bell with getting treats and we weaned him off as he soon understood the bell would get him out and in the door. We still give him a treat when he comes in as a reward for letting us know he is done outside and ready to come in.The Smart Bell is programmed with 38-different chimes and 4-differnt volume settings. Downside: There is no list and you must cycle through each chime to decide the one you want to use. BIGGER DOWNSIDE: If the home loses power, Smart Bell defaults to the first chime. It does not hold the choice in memory. Where we live, we have lost power often enough that we just use the default chime . . .Durability/Performance: Purchased and installed in November 2022, and as of this writing the outside transmitter exposed to all our weather, dirty/muddy paws and even a slight bit of biting for just over a year and works as designed every time.Recommendation: Highly recommend!

Purchased these for my Cane Corso puppy to let us know when she needs to go outside.We put one on the front door and one on the basement door, with the transmitter plugged in between.Within a week, she was using it in her own- she will either lean into it or hit it with her paw.The transmitter plugs in to a standard outlet, has several different tones and lights up blue when she hits the button. In a 5k SF house, we can hear the tone from wherever we are.She especially loves to hit the button when we are on conference calls, and if you do not move fast enough, she will continue to sound it off like an impatient angry customer…. DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG.Anyhow, highly recommend. This is much better than the ribbon/bells hanging off the doorknob.

The media could not be loaded. So it didn't take long for my 6 month old puppy to figure out that when she rung the bell I would open the door. The problem is that she believes she ALWAYS needs to be outside, so she is now 'constantly' ringing the bell and staring at me. Before we got this product she would just quietly wait by the back door, no whining or barking or scratching at the door, and if we were watching a movie or something we wouldn't know that she needed to go out and she'd just have an accident in the house. So now we at least have a way of her letting us know she 'needs' to go out, but now the downside is that I have to use my judgement as to if I think she actually needs to use the bathroom or if I think she just wants to go out for another playtime session because she's bored even though she was outside five minutes ago.I'm also giving this a four out of five stars for a only a couple of minor reasons. We've only had the product for a week or so at this point, so I can't say anything about the longevity of it, but it seems sturdy enough. The reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because 1. There might be a lot of different tones and rings to choose from but they are all super annoying and/or too long. The one I have chosen right now is the one I've found to be the least annoying but it would have been nice to have something a little less obnoxious.2. There's a big jump in the loudness levels. I believe you can set the ring at 5 different noise levels and right now I'm on a two and it's still pretty loud. However, I was BARELY able to hear it at a 1 level. So it would have been nice if there was like a 1.5 loudness level to set it on. But, it's not the end of the world as a 2 isn't ear piercing and 3rd and final reason is the amount of pressure you need to activate the bell/receiver. For my dog, who is 6 months and 60 pounds (large breed) it's not such a big deal as she's got some strength and weight behind her. For a smaller puppy or a smaller breed dog I would see how they might have more problems activating the switch with their noses and would probably need to be taught to activate it with their paws. I taught my puppy to "touch" the point of my finger with her noise before we ever got this product, so that made it easier for training on the button.I also for the first couple of times, just placed the button on the ground next to the door so that gravity was on her side and when she hit it with her nose it was easier for her to make it click and activate the bell and I praised her a took her outside while telling her to go out and potty. So she made the connection really quick and when I mounted it on the frame of the door which you can see in the video, she already knew she needed to press it until the bell rang.Other than those minor things, this is a pretty nifty little invention. I like it better than the traditional bells on the door because when I go into the laundry room my dog doesn't hear a bell every time and think she's going outside. The bell only rings when she hits the button. It's also nice having a receiver on the outside door so that when she's ready to come in from a playtime and stick chewing session she just rings the bell and I know she's ready to come in.