OMGoodness two wild Indians lol. Ok so here is my experience with two 8 week old puppies and pad training.
(this is yearssss ago) Ok so my cousin and I went out one Sunday to just do nothing, at this time I lived in NY and we ended up in Manhattan, we passed a pet shop SHE HAD to go look at the puppies. Well they had a Poodle and a beautiful mini Schnauzer all groomed like a big girl, I fell in love with both of them, I tried talking my cousin into buying the poodle, but it was a no go, sooooo, I ended up buying the Poodle AND the Schnauzer
. I was working at the time, I confined the puppies to my very large kitchen where they had their newspaper for potty, food, water, bed and toys. When I came home from work they were let out to the rest of my apartment under MY supervision. When one of them peed in the living room (I had hard wood floors, no carpeting) I took their pee paper that was kept in the kitchen, absorbed the pee, took the paper back to the kitchen, got that puppy placed her on that paper and told her "pee pee on the paper" It took a couple of weeks to train BOTH puppies where the proper place was for potty. You are home all day with them, they must be confined to a small area where their pee pads are, you cannot give wee babies free roam of you home, maybe investing in a Iris or an Xpen where they can be confined would help you in keeping them in one area. I realize being home with the babies and keeping them confined when all you want to do is play with them, and love them up, or set them free to run and play, but you have to be firm with
yourself and keep them confined, let them out every few hours to be their crazy lil selves, but always put them back in their pen. When you see one of them use the pee pad treat and praise like crazy, happy dance helps to show your happiness and approval that they did something good, treat and praise both puppies when you
SEE who uses the pads.