[JadeD]

My puppies hate being confined. They are rarely put in the crate while I am gone. I have 2 crates connected to each other with zip ties. The smaller crate I put a pee pad in when I do have to leave them and they can go into the larger crate and there is food/water, bedding and toys in there. They will tear the pee pad to shreds while I am gone. However, the pee pads out on the floor they have never destroyed. I did get a pee pad holder and they would work at tearing up that pee pad until they had it all out of the holder. I got my holder off Amazon.

I also have washable pee pads, I got them off ebay, they are just used (but washed) bed pads that I got for about $10 each (I have 3). I keep one in the living room on the carpet with a disposable pee pad on it so if they miss the pad or it soaks through the washable one catches it nicely. I keep another in my bedroom for the same reason. In the kitchen I just have the pee pads on the vinyl floor.

I think he chews up the pee pad out of boredom as mine do. You can try the holder but it was just a challenge for mine to get it out of that. I have had more luck with the washable ones.

If you do get the washable ones here is the care instructions. Throw them in the washing machine and put about 1 tbls of baking soda on top of it. Add detergent to the dispenser and I put vinegar in where the fabric softener goes. Do not add fabric softener as it makes them less absorbent and then air dry them, no dryer. Mine look brand new after every wash no matter how much the puppies pee'd on them. I usually have 2 out at a time and then wash them together and put the spare one in the living room and let them air dry all day so the one in my bedroom is ready by that evening to go back on the floor. They go in yellow and come out white every time, my husband is amazed every time.

Good luck and I do think it is just being bored puppy behavior that they destroy it.