Puppy pads

Puppy pads do work well. And I'm glad they are working for you! What kind of puppy do you have?

I was going to buy some of those for my six-year-old springer when we moved into our first floor flat in January. Before that we lived in a three bedroomed house and left the back door open all the time so he could come and go as he pleased, so I was worried that I would have to toilet train him from scratch when we moved into the flat. Luckily I didn't have to at all. If he needs to go out he comes and sits and stares at me, and if I don't notice him he barks to get my attention and then does this funny little "I need to pee!" tap dance on the floor.

I never saw the point in them. It only makes you have to do the same work twice, first train them to go on the pad, and then to go outside. You might as well train them to go outside in the first place, it is much faster. I trained my pup when I got him at 8 weeks of age to only go outside in just one week so it's not like it's hard or takes long. Another thing about those pads, it very often makes it hard for the dog to understand that he isn't allowed to go inside the house. First you say he is allowed to on the pad, but then all the sudden he isn't. It's too confusing for a dog, they don't have the ability to think logically like humans do.

I use them for my adult Pom. I put one on the deck, he goes out and does his business and comes back in. I keep a special trash out there for the soiled pads. no muss, no fuss. In the winter though he thinks snow is fair game, and if I don't stand there and say ON THE PAD! He'll go wherever he pleases. But it works well for us. he had surgery on both knees and some days he just can't go for long walks. When we do go for pleasure walks, he waits till we get back to go on his pad if need be. :)

That sounds like something i would like to try. Where do you get them? My puppy is having an issue- she dosen't go all over the house but she will go on the rug in my moms batheoom if she can get to it instead of the blue pad that i put out for her. Otherwise she is a sweet dog.

While I can understand the logic behind these, they really are not as good as they sound. Yes sure its great if the dog has an accident it makes for the puppy pad, but all you are doing is having to train the dog twice, you train it to go on the puppy pads and then train it to go outside. With a tiny bit of extra effort at the start there is no reason why the pup cannot be taught to go outside within a week, with fairly few accidents.

We had some of those for one of our dogs when he was being house broken. We had some leftover when my daughter was born, so I used them to put under her when I was changing her and she was poopy.