How does your dog tell you that he has to go out?

Nikita licks my feet

Brown and Grey have a certain look that you just *know* they have to go. If they really need to go, they usually sit at the door, but Grey also comes up to us and howls until we bring him.

We taught Chico to ring a cowbell attached to the wall by the back door where we take him out. How we trained him was,
 
We started out taking him out every hour. Each time we went outside we would make him ring the bell with his nose.
 
That's all you have to do!
 
Then about... maybe two weeks of doing that when we were all sitting in the kitchen playing a game, Chico ring his bell very sheepishly- it was so cute! Then we praised him and took him out. Now (probably about 9 months) he is very foreward about ringing his bell and he doesn't even ring it to go chase rabbits anymore!
 
But every once and a while when it rains he will ring it because rain is just so darn interesting!!

I wish I had a video of how Sofie asks me to help her out. It's hard to describe because I've never seen a dog do this, and I am 99% sure it's a coyote thing.

She comes up to me and tosses her head while keeping eye contact, and doing a sort of special panting that sounds a lot like that "dog laugh" that was recorded a while back. The head toss is really almost her whole upper body being twisted. She always does this with an open mouth.

If that doesn't work, then she ups the ante and huffs some, then huffs and pounces, stands up and does amazing body English to tell me with her WHOLE SELF that she really needs my attention or assistance.

It's sooooooooo funny to watch her! She's SO emphatic it's hilarious! You'd have to be a total moron not to get what she's saying, but I've let her go on just to see what she'd do, LOL.

She knows better than to pounce right ON me (it sure was painful until she understood my large OW!) if I'm in bed but she'll pounce right NEXT to my head and huff and whuff and do extreme maneuvers.

If all that doesn't work the huffs turn into whuffs and into short little barks all the while the dancing and "come follow me" stuff like you wouldn't believe. Eventually she'll bark loudly, obviously frustrated.

When I ask her what she wants she always leads me right to it, either the door, or points at something on the counter or table or whatever. Sometimes it's a rabbit she saw walk past the window. []

sydney was taught to ring a bell.

amelia will just stare at you.

Nikki calmly waits by the door until we notice her, Cairo trots around the house really fast.

I love the whole staring thing, I find it amusing.

I don't get any asking at all, I'm supposed to be psyhic.

I don't get any asking at all, I'm supposed to be psyhic.

 
LOL... My dog is having some weird dream right now, whimpering and kicking his legs. >_>

My 1 year old, Duke, will sometimes go to the door and scratch.... but the odd time he will just go in the middle of the living room!!!! Right in front of us!!!! (He doesn't do that very often).

My little one, Daisy, doesn't do anything yet. But we have ony had her for a few days. She hasn't had 1 single accident yet though (but we take her out almost every hour!)

April stands right in front of me, if I don't pay attention she woofs a little bit of a woof.  Sometimes I wait just to hear her little woof.[]

gee, we refuse to let the dogs decide when they get to go out. We take them out on a regular schedule and they do learn to hold it. Otherwise they'd be constantly pretending they needed to pee, and going in and out, just for fun. I'm not a doorman.

Emma herds me to the door.

Teenie whines at me, and if that fails, she goes on the floor.....

Mojo is so easy, he jiggles the back door handle and if we don't respond in what he deems to be an appropriate time he sort of does this very insitent grunt/bark thing.
 
Emma will scratch on a door a few times.  If it's really an emergency, she has this thing that's of between a loud yawn and a whimper.
 
We're lucky to have really communicative dogs.
 
 

i taughet chloe and malakai both, how to knock when they need to go out, they usually will paw at the door a few times and if i still dont notice they'll  whine at me and pace from me back to the door.