We will be getting a girl in November/December. I had decided on training her to go on pee pads, I even bought a frame(pink!) at the pet store.
BUT after reading about the trouble so many people are having with the pads, maybe I should do the outside training? I have a 3 yr. old boy, and trained him to go outside, but we got him in the summer...and I thought it would be so much more trouble and cold for her to go out so young. Any thoughts? Also---can anyone tell me what you use for the long term confinement area? Is it a metal fence that I see in the pet stores? I was thinking about a clear Rubbermaid container, with her crate at one end and the wee wee pad at the other. I even thought about getting someone to cut small holes in it so she can see out. I do have a small suqare metal "cage" that we used for a short time with Skippy-but he went nuts in it, made a mess if he pooped in there.HELP, running out of time to figure this out!