Hello everyone! I’d like to start teaching my almost 6 y/o dog to use bells for when he’d like to go potty. He currently will whine and kinda stand by the door but with changing my medications recently I fear I’ll sleep through those signals. He also only does it if it’s a RIGHT NOW kinda thing but I’d like it to be also if he’d just like to go out. The issue I see with this has to do with my current living situation so I’ll outline that real quick. I live with my parents and their younger kids I’m their house. My parents have a dog that is aggressive towards female dogs but has gotten along with male dogs before. My dog is a male dog but we aren’t going to try them together again until we find a reliable trainer who can help with that. So that means that she gets the main house and my dog gets the basement where I live (I have a studio apartment set up). We will lock their dog up some times in a bed room to let my dog come up and say hi to the rest of the family and have some time, and then we let each other know when one of the dogs are outside and just switch them around for play/potty time. I do spend quite a bit of time in the basement or outside with one of the dogs but I do come up stairs some to visit with my family (mainly evening) and when I do this I can’t really hear anything in the basement unless my dog is crying (normally for dinner) I’m worried that if I start teaching him to ring bells to go potty that if he does that and I’m upstairs and can’t hear him it’ll cause him to get confused and not use them anymore. Are the bells a bad idea then if I can’t hear them upstairs? Also if I’m in the process of training and he uses them but we have the other dog up so we need to put her inside will the time it takes to get him outside deter him from using the bells again?