Pee pads in 2 different locations?
 

Well.. the wait for Franklin is getting more and more unbearable as each day passes. Luckily, I only have 9 days left! I've been going crazy trying to make sure everything is perfect for his arrival. :thumbup:

My questions is this:

Once school starts again, Franklin will be put in an x-pen while my boyfriend, roommate and I are at school. (Don't worry, one of us will be back every 1-2 hours to check on him) I'm planning on pee pad training him as we live in an apartment and the weather is too cold right now to take him out often. The breeder also already has him paper trained.

My question is.. will it be too confusing for him if I had two potty pad areas? I want to leave one in the x-pen while we are gone, but I also want him to get used to going on one in our bathroom while we are at home. Should I start out just using one? One of my concerns is that I'm not sure if the x-pen I'm getting has doors, so he wouldn't be able to have access to it if he's out. (I also don't want to lift him in and out of it because I don't want to encourage jumping out of it when he's older. Should I invest in one with doors?) :confused:

What are your suggestions?

Thanks, YTers! :D

Strictly from the experience in our house... My girls learned to pee on the pads...and now they will go on the pad where every I put it. And when we visit our other Michigan Yorkie Friends, they go on their pee pads if they have them out!

I have a friend who found a little fire hydrant that has an attracting smell for males to pee on... You might be able to use that as a clue for him too.

That's what I was thinking, but I didn't want to overwhelm him with too many options!

Did you start out training them on one? Or did you just always have multiple!

Thanks for your reply, and your babies are absolutely gorgeous!

Mine too can use more than one. In our house, Coby typically still goes on the one in the kitchen as that's where he started out (on non-carpet floor) and still doesn't have full run of the house. Reggie is 10 years old, and his potty pad is downstairs in a closet of the finished basement. As Coby gets run of the house, he will eventually go down there too (...well, hopefully!) Coby will go on Reggie's if he's down there, but Reggie won't go on Coby's upstairs.

But both will go on a potty pad wherever it is placed. For example, I was wrapping presents upstairs and Coby wanted to be with me, so I put a pad in that room, and he pottied on it.

Best of luck to ya!

Chloe and Zoey have their own pads. They are about 5 feet apart. Chloe often pees on Zoey's pad, but only poos on her own. Zoey is a one pad girl. Zoey pees and poos only on her own pad. I started using two because Chloe wanted to pee and poo in a certain spot. I just put a second pad down there to try to train her. I wish they would both go one one. Maybe some day. I think your baby can get the hang of two spots.

Great advice thats how I'm attempting to potty train Rockie with a pad in whatever room he is in. Glad to hear it actually works.:thumbup:

Yes, it does work, but just a word of caution. You do want them to learn to GO TO their spot (versus just having a spot wherever they are) in the end so you don't have pads all over the house. But during training, I've found it does help in a pinch when you're too busy to keep shooing them to their pad every 20 minutes or when they're still learning. Plus it does teach them that if you're traveling or at another person's house that they should potty where YOU tell them to by way of putting down a potty pad.

But try to limit it a bit so you don't have so many places to try to combine later on. Best of luck to ya!!

Gracie and Cessy always did so well with the potty pads, but we'd also go outside several times a day....

Since it's been so cold here and they don't go outside now, I have two potty pads down, one at each end of the house ..... they do use them... BUT, they've taken to ALSO peeing on ANY "pad" that's on the floor....

I had thought about those washable pee pads and decided against them for this very reason.... I figured if they were trained to potty on material of any type (other than the ONE disposable potty pad type they've used since they were born) then what would stop them from pottying on ANY material in the house.... (I saw some Boots n' Barkley washable potty pads and they were almost as "elegant" as some of their bedtime blankets!!)

Yet, even without ever having used the washable pee pads, we had to take up every rug in the house because the girls think that they are their very own designer pee pads!!! ugh!! They're okay with the laid carpet.... it's just rugs ON the carpet, or in the hall on the wood floor, etc...

Well I did forget one thing... LOL

When we first started learning to go on the pee pad...I had to cover the entire floor with them. Every time we go on the pad, we get a treat...slowly the area got smaller... :) And we still get a treat every day when there is no mess off the pad.

I have two litter boxes with pee pads inside upstairs and downstairs. Jambo uses both. The upstairs box is in the kitchen where I try to gate him in sometimes. One night he fell asleep with me on the sofa and got off to go to the loo. I heard him go downstairs and realized that it was because I forgot to take the gate off the kitchen area for him to get access to the upstairs litter box. He knew better to use the downstairs one instead. He also pees on the pad when he visits my boyfriend's house. I put it in the same spot each time and so far everything has been good. He has goofed a few times but it happens.

No, Barney has two- two in my room and one in his room. It is funny, he likes to use these TWO areas so I figured why not?

I have 2 wee pads for Fifi.

The big problem was that once I changed my bedsheets before going to work. Well, I took the old sheets off, but didn't put the new ones on. So I just had the mattress pad on the bed.

I didn't realize that the mattress pad looked like a gigantic wee pad. They were both white and somewhat quilted.

Needless to say, when I got home, there was a very unpleasant surprise waiting for me.