[Karrie]

Unfortunately, we work too - so Bailey is in an ex-pen 8 hrs a day - 4 days a week. I never tried to train her in it. I just laid down pee pads in a litter box and cleaned it up every day.

Sometimes she went on the pee pad, sometimes she'd go outside the box and often she chewed up the pee pad. At about 8 months she outgrew all those bad habits. Now, she either holds it - or goes on the pee pad - and she doesn't chew it up at all. I was always told that dogs will not mess where they live - and it was true - they just have to grow into it.