[RowdysMom]

I didn't have any luck at all training Rowdy (14 months) to pee pads, so I didn't even try with Rexy (3 1/2 months). Can you take them outside (when you are home)?

Both Rexy and Rowdy seemed to instinctively know to go potty when their feet hit the grass. And if I had a nickel for every time I've stood in the yard and said "go potty", I'd be rich.

Anyway, like I said, I had no luck with the pee pads. We took Rowdy and Rexy out every 1/2 to 1 hour and said "go potty" Rowdy was a bit more difficult, but Rexy has been a breeze. We now have a doggy door and Rowdy goes in and out ALOT and so Rexy goes with him. Rexy has very few accidents in the house - oh don't get me wrong, he has some, but because he has this instinct to go potty in the grass, and because he is in and out so much that he goes outside "most of the time".

I understand that some people can't take their dogs outside every hour or so - or that they don't have a doggie door. But it seems to me that both my guys had an instinctive urge to potty in the grass - so that made training them to go outside so much easier than to go on pee pads.