I have Eros' potty pad in a little litter box (without the litter box he would sometimes confuse rugs for his potty pads) in the laundry room. I leave the laundry room door open so that it forms a very large room with the kitchen and I put doggy gates in the kitchen to close it off because we have an open floor plan. He is doing VERY well with potty training and rarely has accidents at just 3 months of age. At night he sleeps in his exercise pen and will cry when he has to potty. So I take him out to his litter box in the laundry room and tell him to go potty then take him back to bed in his pen. Originally I had two pads out...one in the laundry room and one in the bathroom close the room his play pen is in. At some point he just stopped wanting to use the 2nd pad and would wait behind the closed bathroom door to let me know he wanted to go potty in the laundry room only
I generally let him pee on his pad twice depending on the size of the puddle and the smell. If he poops I change it right away. Actually, if he thinks his pad is too soiled he will bark at me to change it...and if I don't do it he will grab his pad by the corner and pull it out of his litter box
Desiree & Eros