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View Poll Results: Which potty method does your fur butt use? | |||
Disposable Pee Pads | 130 | 46.93% | |
Washable Pee Pads | 34 | 12.27% | |
Artificial Grass System | 10 | 3.61% | |
Outside | 165 | 59.57% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 277. You may not vote on this poll |
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07-05-2009, 07:49 AM | #1 |
Lola's Love Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Mill Valley, CA, USA
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| Disposable pee pads, washable pee pads or artificial grass system Which potty method does your fur butt use?
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07-05-2009, 07:54 AM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MA
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| My guys use both the washable and disposable pee pee pads....but I prefer them to go outside....I only keep them down for when I am not home or I am upstairs and they are downstairs and nature calls :-) I was thinking about the artificial grass for them to use on my deck...
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07-05-2009, 09:07 AM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In the sticks, MN
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| Outside! Unless I'm in the potty training stages of a young puppy, I wouldn't use piddle pads inside the house. In my opinion they have to learn to relieve themselves outside, even in the winter. Giving them too many options will only confuse them and that will eventually lead to accidents on bath rugs, carpets, etc...But that's just my personal opinion. They're a great training tool, but that's it.
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07-05-2009, 09:34 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northern New York
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| My boys use wee wee pads in bad weather or overnight if needed, and they go outside during the day. This system works great for us and Snickers and Baxter are just as comfortable inside as outside. Never any accidents.
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07-05-2009, 09:56 AM | #5 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NJ
Posts: 393
| London is a little potty genius if I may say so She is trained for both outside and disposable pottypads. She never has accidents, it's amazing. She was already trained like that when i got her, at age 2.5 years. |
07-05-2009, 10:30 AM | #6 |
LEADER OF MyPACK Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sugar Land Texas
Posts: 3,978
| I have 2 that use the washable pp pads and 3 that will only go outside. So i have both i guess. The pp padder's will also go outside. I have a mess on my hands during bad weather as NONE of them will step outside if it is even damp. I end up taking them with an umbrella one at a time to the grass. I wish the 3 outsiders would use the pp pads but they won't. |
07-05-2009, 08:25 PM | #7 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: new zealand
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| George uses inside peepads at night (if need be) and outside during the day, but he prefers outside
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07-06-2009, 06:44 AM | #8 |
Peanut Gallery Mom Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Maryland
Posts: 1,256
| Mine generally go outside unless it is cold or wet outside. On those days they use washable pee pads. I always leave one down for them and most of the time they don't even use it for days on end. |
07-06-2009, 08:11 AM | #9 |
megan - g Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: South Texas
Posts: 2,324
| I have a doggie potty artificial grass system with a fire hydrant for my boys! We mainly use outside but there are times when the weather is too bad for them to go out and I want them to be able to still use grass and not my floor! Pee pads were too messy and expensive with 3 yorkies trying to use them!
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07-06-2009, 01:14 PM | #10 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Myrtle Beach,SC
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| Total Confusion & Mixed Messages? All 3 of mine go "Outside", regardless of the Weather/Climate, I dress them appropriately or I wake-up earlier and walk them earlier so it will be cooler. I also walk them later in the Evening when it's cooler if I have to. They are 5, 4 and 3 yrs. old and they NEVER have accidents. I did NOT use Pee pads to House Train them, ever since they were puppies I have always taken them outside! I think it sends a mixed message as to where and when they can "GO" and can cause total confusion! I control when we are "GOING" and where we are "GOING", it teaches them to Hold it and regulate it. They know that, that is the purpose of our "Walk" besides the "Exercise" (w/c they don't know?) I usually take them out to go pee, in my front or backyard w/c is NOT fenced in at all and they are also Trained to go "OFF Leash" as well. Besides I am very sensitive about how my House smells and if it smells clean or not? I cannot tolerate the ammonia smell from the urine, part of the reason why they continually pee on the pads w/c are placed in the same spot is b/c they can still smell it from the previous pee pad. Sorry if I offend anyone but I think it's gross and I could never live like that. In the old fashioned days before they made them, all DOGS went to the Bathroom outside. Every Breed of Dog is capable of learning how to be "House Trained" or to go Outside. Some how "Yorkies" got a bad rap about being "Hard" to House Train? I beleive that rumor got started by a "Lazy" Yorkie owner b/c mine learned within 2 days or less as long as I was consistent. As you can tell by reading this it is one of my "Pet Peeves". I beleive they were invented as a Training Tool and to replace the "NewsPapers" role.
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07-06-2009, 06:12 PM | #11 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2009 Location: Derby,CT,USA
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right.on!....i.totally.agree!!! | |
07-07-2009, 05:14 AM | #12 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Osage Beach, Missouri
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| Mostly an Outy! Toto goes outside when I am home and all the time during the summer. I am a teacher though and a lot of the time that means long days. If I keep him in his crate he will hold it the whole time but I want the little guy to be able to move around a bit. So I do put a pad down when I am gone. He has never gone on my area rug but has sometimes missed the pad. I just hate having to shut him in the crate all day now that he's trained. I will have to pen Barkley up during the day at first but I think he will learn and I will eventually be able to allow him the kitchen and livingroom like I do with Toto. |
07-07-2009, 05:33 AM | #13 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts/Florida
Posts: 2,614
| My Pasquale uses washable pee pads..however he will even use the disposable ones if i put them down. He even pee's outside if we're outside. BUT living in new england...i'm just happy that he does use the pads...cause i look out my window in the snowy winter and laugh at my neighbor who is out there with her dog screaming "c'mon..go pee pee" LoL
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07-08-2009, 03:57 AM | #14 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Brunswick Maine
Posts: 440
| Mine go outside and only outside. When I first got Baxter, who was only 2 lbs, and It was winter here in Maine, I tried pee pads. But my vet said to take him outside, he will learn to go faster. So with sweaters, hoodies, jackets, and even raincoats, thats where he is going to go. He is 1 1/2 and hasn't had a accident in over 15 months! What a boy.
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07-08-2009, 05:45 AM | #15 | |
Luv my Angel, too! Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA
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Hi Antoinette!!!! If we had a climate more like yours, we would be outside as well. However, since our winters get brutal with lots of snow and my girls like to get up at 3:00am to go outside - we are washable pee pad users. The thing I really like about the pee pads as well is since I travel with my girls, pee pads are a godsend. Taking them outside in the middle of the night in a hotel in my nightie isn't something I want to do. We do have occasional accidents, but I believe this would happen even if they were outside trained.
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