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Originally Posted by KazzyK810  Indoor pee pad trained. My work hours are unpredicatable & irregular, so it allows my pup to go potty when she needs to. Any yorkie I've ever had has been pad trained. I love it because is makes it so much easier to travel. I can put a pee pad down, on the floor of my car, the floor of a friends bathroom, my kids dorm room & she knows to go on it. I'm on the go alot & my pup goes everywhere with me, other than work and I love the convenience of the portable pads.
To the person above who stated that pee pads are dirty & nasty & smelly....I don't whose homes you frequent....but I change my pads frequently & poop is immediately picked up & flushed, morning & night. I use both the washable pads for home & disposable pads for travel (& when I'm slacking on my laundry duties  ) |
I agree. I think potty pads are wonderful...and we change ours so many times I'm beginning to think it was a missed stock option!!! lol "but"...
I wish mine used their doggie door more. We have multiple decks and one is 12x12 outside the kitchen, so we chicken wired all around (so they couldn't fall through - we have a pool and it would be extra dangerous if they got loose) - put in a doggie door that opens to an "outhouse" - about a 3x3x4 wooden box (former dog house without the steeped roof - roof replaced with an open/shut lid (for easy cleaning) with 1/4 plexiglass cut out on top for light), potty pads in that...then a door (that can be open/closed) so they can go out on the deck in the spring/summer/fall for fresh air. Which was working great until Gracie just upped and decided she'd start pooping on the deck-bypassing the outhouse!
Anyway, blah, blah, I went off in some other direction, which happens alot !!! lol ( I think I'm just proud of the Yorkie's "yard"...lol)
So potty pads, if kept 'clean' and changed are great. And yes, they "get it" when you take them places and bring a potty pad. Our new pup was dog door trained so she goes out there "most of the time" but doesn't always make it (yet). As I've said before...could be other foods, but the Royal Canin makes the poo hard and smell free and easy to pick up off the potty pad and flush.