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Old 09-24-2006, 04:41 AM   #1
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Default opinion needed pee pads vs outside

Or maybe bothh? I'm very tempted to stick with pee pads and go outside only for walks (still 2-3 times a day but only to get him exercise, fresh air, change of surrounding etc). Pepper's been very good with pee pads, he's almost 4 months but has pottied on them almost 100 per cent around 3 weeks now. He's getting his last booster in a few days and I'm debating what to do about his housebreaking. I never really wanted a dog to go inside but after reading the numerous posts I'm tempted to stay with the situation everyone's comfortable with (for now). For those whose dog's trained on both, how do you make them go outside if they're used to pee pads? I take Pepper to friend's backyard sometimes but even if we spend an hour there, he holds it until we get back home. Also, I kept pads in each room initially... When I tried to eliminate some, he still wanted to potty where he remember pee pad. I put them back. He's allowed to have run of the house and doesn't really get in trouble (mostly when we're home and sometimes at night). But hubby left him out of xpen and went shopping for a couple hours, no accidents when he got back. I'm really debating about it. I don't want to start crate training him now, he never reaally was... Any advice?? So confused...
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Old 09-24-2006, 08:17 AM   #2
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If you can train him to pee on the pads and go outside then I would do it because its going to be cold in the winter and you won't want to let him out in the snow.
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Old 09-24-2006, 08:33 AM   #3
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i would train him to go outside. start eliminating the pee pads again until your down to the one closet to the door your going to take him out of all the time. then start moving that pad closer and closer to the dog. then put it outside on the opposite side of the door. he'll eventually learn to go outside. i don't think pee pads are a very good idea because 1) why spend the extra money of pee pads when its free to go outside, 2) all that money your gonna spend on the pads for the rest of his life could be put towards something else. its like buying diapers for your child all his life, would you do that? and 3) do you really want a dog pooping in your house all the time? i think its disgusting.

I trained morgan to go outside from the day i got her. she was used to going on pads at the breeder, but i didn't want this. so i would take her outside and tell her to 'go potty' then i'd stand there and wait till she did. sometimes i was out there for twenty minutes standing still while she walked in a circle around me. but it got the job done. morgan is on a schedule now and is taken out 5-6 times a day to potty, plus a walk. early in the morning on the weekends when she has to pee at like 6:30 i take her out, she runs to this one spot, pees and poops, and then runs back in the house, down the stairs, and up the ramp on to my bed.

i think its well worth it to train your dog to go outside. if you had a lab would you be training him to go in your house? don't worry about the cold or the rain. morgan goes out in the rain with no problem. granted i have to dry her off or blow dry her afterwards. as for snow, we haven't gotten any yet, but i'm taking her out in that too. i'll shovel a spot for her. and i'm getting her snow booties since the snow here gets pretty icy, plus she has several sweaters, jackets, and hoodies to wear outside.
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I thought I wanted Schatzi to go outside.....but sometimes I wished she'd learned on the little pads. Today, for example, it's POURING outside and she refused to go. At first she ran bravely into the rain, but she just couldn't go (lol)....she was kinda freaking out with the rain and trying to shake it off
I think if you can do BOTH, it would be awesome. I'm trying to teach her to use pee pads now, but I think it may be a little late. Good luck with whatever you choose!
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We live in Chicago and Loki goes out in the snow and the rain... I don't see what the big deal is.

We started Loki outside as soon as he came home so I can't help you on the pads, except to say decide quick because if you do want to break him of the habit of going in the house you better not let him practice it for too long.
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If I wouldn't work full time I would take Bengi outside; but I'm not home for several hours and I'm tired in the morning and in the evening to take him out. The pads just work for me. He goes whenever he wants to. It rains a lot where I live and there are a lot of bugs outside; plus I live in an apartment and I don't have my own backyard. I don't have pads all around the house; I just have one in a litter box and that's where he's supposed to go.
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I don't see anything wrong with using pads and still going for walks. My Gracie pottys outside exclusively but my little boys are being trained only to potty pads. They are both pretty little (3 and 4 lbs) and both hate the grass and I worry about hawks- we have a lot of them. I don't worry with Gracie because she is 8 lbs. She also loves walks where the boys don't. I personally love the convenience of the pads.
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