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12-12-2013, 06:39 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Carrollton, Texas, USA
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| Ripping up the potty pads? Hi everyone! I have 2 6 month old Yorkies (a boy and a girl). When I go to work during the day I separate them by gating 1 in the kitchen and the other in the laundry room. I usually go check on them during lunch (so they are gated for about 4 hours). I paper trained them so if needed they can use the potty pads while I'm out. My girl was doing very well and my boy was doing it about half the time. Then one day I got home and my boy had completely shredded his pee pad! And since then he consistently turns the pee pad into confetti and goes to the bathroom on the floor. I bought the fake grass potty patch, but he is now pulling up the grass and still using the floor as his potty. And to top it off, it seems he has taught my girl to tear up her potty pad. So now she will use her pad and then rip it up some days. Please help! I don't want my pups to go backwards in their potty training!
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12-13-2013, 07:31 AM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: South-East England
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| If you use potty pads you should never use them without a potty pad holder. You can find them at most pet shops or online, it keeps them from moving the pad, chewing it up, and they are very easy to clean you just take the pad out, trash it and then put a new pad in it. Once a week you should clean the holder under the shower or running hose, don't use any soap on it because that will wash away the urine smell that we can't smell, and they will have to learn to use it all over again when you put a new pad in it, or you'll have to confine them on it until they mark it again. |
12-13-2013, 11:10 AM | #3 | |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Carrollton, Texas, USA
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Thanks for your reply, but we currently do use the pad holders. They are able to shred the pads up by what I assume to be a digging motion. Once enough paper is pulled up through that, they then tear it up some more. The pad holder will sometimes have half a pad still on it.
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