I am another exclusive pee pad user. When Sissy first came to us, she was an outside pottier, but would have at least one "accident" a day as she would not give my any signals she needed to go out. She never knew what to do with pee pads.
When Angel came to use a year later, she was pee pad trained as a puppy, but would also go outside. That winter was brutally cold and snowy and both girls began getting up in the middle of the night to potty and I had had enough of being outside in my jammies freezing to death!!!!!!
We transitioned to washable pee pads primarily because of the winter and middle of the night pottying, but have continued as we have very few accidents with the pee pads. It is also so much easier for traveling, cause going out of a hotel to potty isn't fun and it can be difficult to find a good place to let them out. We also had two incidents with giardia and I know it came from our yard. Sissy is under 5 lbs and Angel is just 5 lbs and although I have a fenced yard, they can still squeeze under the smallest space and hawks are regularly seen in the neighborhoods, so they were NEVER out without me anyway.
For those who wonder about washable pee pads, poop gets picked up and flushed immediately, but we use the pads for 2-3 days before washing and there is NO SMELL with quality pads - plus they look much nicer than disposables.
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