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Dog Rings Bell to go potty and to go play!

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We started training our puppy (she is 13 weeks old-had her for 3 weeks) to ring a bell on doorknob to go outside and do her business. But she likes to go outside to investigate our cats and play around so she rings the bell even after coming back inside to go out again. We don't think we should let her out everytime because she is ringing it constantly but we don't want to take a chance on her relieving herself inside if we ignore the ringing. She needs to know ringing the bell means doing her business and not going out to play. Any suggestions on how to get this across to her?