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Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom  I don't think they are difficult at all. the young puppies I sell that leave me at about 11-12 weeks are 90-95 percent pad trained when they leave me. nothing I do. But, I have found that being with my other dogs, they pick it up from them. |
My puppies are piddle pad trained by 8 weeks of age, their mothers do it. But the training begins in the whelping box. I line the puppy play pen with washble piddle pads, from the time I put mom in there a week before her due date. By the time they have their first shots and allowed down on the grown in the training area with mom, she begins herding them towards the piddle pads..By the time they go home at 12 weeks or more the only thing new families need to is to make the transition to going outside. What a couple of my new families have done is put a piddle pad out on their patio in the beginning and from there it has become easy.