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Originally Posted by OpheliaLoved  Well if you use newspaper, then my theory is out the window! I have been using the pee pads that "smell like grass" (I've smelled them, and they don't) and "contain pheromones that attract your dog to go on the pads" (I think this is a bit of BS, but it sounded good in the store which is the power of good advertising) I thought maybe the scents were telling him "pee here" but not "poo here, too!" I guess if you are using newspaper and he pees there but not the other then it can't be because of the scent...
Has anyone else used these pads? They're called Nature's Miracle... I think I'm just going to get the plain ones without all the supposed grass and puppy scents. It seems those work just as well.
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I haven't tried the Nature's Miracle pads, but Sukoshi uses the normal potty training pads (that's the only place she'll go...doesn't even realize she can go outside), and I had trouble getting her to poo on the pad at first too. She was in puppy training classes at the time, and I talked to the trainer about this, and she said it was because the pads are scented with the pee smell (nothing that us humans can smell), but not the poo, so there's nothing to tell them to poo there. I tried leaving a little piece of poo on each pad until Sukoshi finally learned that's where it belonged. Every time I saw her trying to poo elsewhere too, I carried her over to her pad. She's gotten the hang of it now though, so I say just don't give up!