I rather my dogs go outside because I don't want them to go indoors, but I just moved to a state that sometimes gets 80+ mile an hour wind for 1-4 days at a time. My house is brand new and not that small, but it still feels like it might blow away. I get blown away a little bit. I have a 4 lb Chihuahua, 4.5 lb Yorkie, and a 9.5 lb mini poodle. They don't do well in the wind and sometimes it's raining or snowing at the same time.
I now want to train my dogs to go on either pee pads or recycled newspaper litter in a really shallow pan. My compromise is having the dogs go in my attached garage. I haven't done this yet because I think I should have a dog door for them to use. I plan on attaching a dog door into the wall to my garage and gate off a small area big enough for the washable pads or litter pan so they can't just go anywhere in my garage. I did try to just take them to a litter pan in the morning, but they kept stepping out of the pan and going on the concrete. I got stressed out and stopped. I have to arrange things so that the dogs don't have a choice but to go potty in the gated off area in the garage when I take them out. The hardest part will probably to teach my dogs to go through a dog door. I have never used dog doors. |