March 31, 2008 | Retail gone wrong, Pets
Tired of taking your dog for regular walks? Unable to look up every now and then to see if Fido is standing by the door, whining and crossing his legs?
Well, my friend, clearly you’re in need of a Tell Bell
(I don’t know why I find this so hilarious and unnecessary. Perhaps because it comes in four different colors, and dogs are colorblind.)
Should you now decide that your life is incomplete without a Tell Bell, you can use coupon code Promo670 to take 20% off the price.
But I reserve the right to mock you if you buy one.
Posted by Mir @ 8:27 am
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Part of the funny with this is that the dog has to step down on a button - it looks like he’s playing a game show.
*buzz* “What is ‘I have to pee’, Alex? (correct!) I’ll take trees and bushes for $100.”
My friends who have dogs trained them to nose a string of jingle bells they had hanging on the back of the doorknob. It worked well (and they could adjust it to different sizes) and then didn’t have to deal with Alex Trebek.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:45 amWe just used a Santa necklace. (A jingle bell on a cord.) Works like a charm!
March 31st, 2008 at 9:45 amHrmp. Products like these are just going to stifle the innate creativity of dogs. Why, in my day, dogs had to figure out their own ways to alert their owners of their going out needs! My recently departed dog used to bang the mail slot up and down with her nose, and the dog I had as a child learned to modulate his yawns to produce a noise that sounded much like “want out,” or, for more urgent matters, “need out.” Would he have learned to talk if I’d given him a Tell Bell? I think not!
Next thing you’re going to tell me is that dogs need sweaters and raincoats. As if!
March 31st, 2008 at 10:08 amAnyone who buys that needs to change their name to Jeeves because they’ve just become the doggie’s butler. “You rang, sir? Very good, sir!”
March 31st, 2008 at 10:23 amLol Summer!
March 31st, 2008 at 11:10 amOh gosh. I have a friend who trained their dogs to ring the bell to go out. The bit that they didn’t realize would happen is that the dogs ring the bell whenever they want out, be it for peeing purposes or just a general yen for the outdoors.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:39 amRING RING RING RING!
Yes, Stew, that is exactly what happens. Now we have the 2-minute-wait rule. If one of the dogs rings the bell, we tell him “no”. If he rings again within 2 minutes it means he actually NEEDS to go out, rather than just wants to run around the backyard. So far they haven’t figured the rule out, but once they do we’ll be screwed.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:05 pmI can think of many things to spend my money on rather than this. The old jingle bells on a cord work wonderfully well and are cheap!
March 31st, 2008 at 1:13 pmY’know, I might just have to buy one just for the pleasure of teaching our Bulldog to play ‘Press Your Luck.’ No whammies!
March 31st, 2008 at 4:25 pmYou KNOW you have funny commenters if I’m reading the messages out loud over my shoulder. Hee!
April 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am