How does your dog ask to be taken outside?

She hasn’t learned yet to scratch at the door like my old dog. She only paces around the dining room, near the patio door till I notice her nervous behavior. Her nails are long (even when clipped short) so it sounds like tiny heels tapping on the floor quickly.

He usually lays down in the hallway by the back door, if he really needs to go out.

I don’t, generally speaking, let him out on command. He lives on my schedule, not his.

She rings the bell we have hanging at the door.

I have a doggie door and mine comes in and out at will. But only when I’m home. I don’t let her out when I’m not home. I’m afraid someone will steal or hurt her.

@DoNotKnow Your doggie is truly talented!

I trained my dog to speak. He’d bark when he wanted out, he’d bark when he wanted in. Best trick I ever taught him! And he was smart about it. He’d bark only once then listen for me or give me adequate time. If I didn’t respond he’d bark once again.

My 15-year-old bird dog that I have had since he was 10 weeks old always communicated his needs to go out with a short, sharp, peremptory bark.

Now, we have a terrier who whines when he wants to be petted or when he wants to go out so I usually start petting him first and if he still whines, I ask if he wants to go out, and he madly wags his stub tail so I know the answer is yes.

Since we got him, my other dog has taken to whining too. Sigh.

Ask?
My English Shepherd (very like a Border Collie) assumes I’m a complete idiot in need of constant directions. Under his leadership, I have to brag that I’ve become quite well trained.

When he wants “out”, he stares at me. If I ignore that, he grabs my sleeve and backs up. If I make him go away, he goes and gets something of mine and parades it by me, then drops it at the door.

Eventually, I learn. I am rewarded with acrobatics and cold nose kisses.

This same dog pushed his water bowl around for a while, then went and grabbed the garden hose and laid it on my feet! I’m so glad he’s clever and alert. Somebody in this house should be in charge!

We just got our dog a few weeks ago, but her go-to method seems to be walking a circle through the house then stopping to whine a couple of times, then she starts walking another circle.

We have two dogs the both go to back door and “speak” If is during the night while we are asleep. they wil come into bedroom and “speak”. Speak is not a bark but a rsh-rah yip.

By semaphore. Puppy treat training really pays off.

My dog is old, deaf and has, in his dotage, become an obsessive compulsive asshole. He will go to the door and bark and then, when I open it, stare at the outdoors like he has never seen it before. If I wait long enough he will walk outside. If I am lucky he will wander into the yard and go pee, if I am not, he will turn around and bark at the door to come back in. Sometimes it pisses me off, especially when he does it repeatedly but then I realize the old fart is demented so I give him a pass.

He used to be a lot more demonstrative, jumping around, nuzzling, running back and forth but since he has gone deaf, barking seems to be his method of choice for communicating; “Bark!’ I want to go out; “Bark!” I want to come in; “Bark!” I want food; “Bark!” I want fresh water this stuff is hours old and you won’t leave the toilet seat up; “Bark, Bark, Bark!” I am lost in the hall again and can’t figure out how to turn around and come back to the living room. Asshole.

But we still love his little fuzzy butt.

Dog one- 18 yr old shitzu-rescued- and fading. Leans into your side with a soulful look- also used for ‘get my dinner. Now!’ I proceed to clap and whistle for her to follow the noise to find the door. She stands and sways. Reverse to come in.
Dog two- 16 yr old shitzu son of above. Rescued- eyesight failing. Sits at feet and steps on feet until I get up to start clapping and whistling for Dog 1. I feel as though I am viewed as a wastebasket with a pedal to lift when in use. Pee’s on any/everything that moves outside. When tired- squats like he sees the girls get away with.
Dog three- 15 yr old pug. Rescued. Obnoxiously believes her life is like flying on bow like in Titanic. I get to hold her up. Yea. She sits on me, or leans into me- giving the soulful gaze. Wants to be first out. Then, before getting down to business, goes to eat any bird suet on the ground, the piglet. One must stand in attendance.
To call the troops in… I say :Treat?-or if raining, all I get out is Tr?
Cat-who owns us all- 15yr old, rescued me- and lets me know it daily, waits by door for our return. Bites first dog in, and then runs to chair for a treat also. After all, she held down the fort while we were outside.

The little one paces at the door. Grabbing whatever is close by, because pacing is no fun when you don’t have a shoe or an empty bottle to carry.

My old girl just looks at me with sad eyes. When she gets desperate because I’m asleep, she lies near the door, whining under her breath and panting. Very ineffective, because I don’t sleep curled up at the front door. I wish she’d do that whining at the bed.

The Maltese stares and stands at the door, in turn. She then gets showered with praise because she was a challenge to housetrain.

They have a set schedule three times a day. If there’s an emergency they will sit and stare at us and wag their tail.

She just stands by the door until I let her out. Very occasional she will walk to the door, walk back to the room I’m in and so on and so forth until I notice.. She rarely makes a noise!!

14-year-old shelter shepherd mix. Usually just goes and stands or lies at the door until someone notices. If it becomes more urgent, she will bark.

If she needs to go out at night (happens a little more frequently the last few years), she will come to my side of the bed and “whisper” bark. If that does not get the desired effect, she’ll bark a little louder. If that does not work, she will bark loudly, which will usually wake my wife, who will then push me out of the bed.

@Love_my_doggie: “Your doggie is truly talented!”

She’s not. Really. It’s just what people do around here. Everyone has one of these hanging from their doorknob. It only takes about a week (sometimes less) before dogs learn to ring the bell to ask to go out.

As I type this, she is barking at the door. I better let her go out.