how many are pee pad AND outdoor trained?
 

How many people ahve dogs who are pee pad trained AND outdoor trained? Will they ask to to outside if the pad is not available? I originally was going to use the Wiz Dog because I thought pee pad would be confused with carpet but now I am hearing thatyou can teach a dog to distiguish...if that is so...pee pad would be so much easier to travel with. I will have him in hotels and friends houses. I like the pee pad for when I am not home on a day for a longer time then usual or during our harsh winter days. I want to train him to "go" on command. BUT I also want him to be trained to "ask" to go out if he needs to go...say at a friends house while visiting or while we are home and it is not bad weather. Is all of this possible?
suzie

I have four Yorkies at home with me, and they are pee pad trained, as well as outdoor trained. They mostly use the pads at night since it is hard for them to go all night without having to pee. And they let me know when they need to go outside. Guess I have the best of both worlds.

Okay...so give me your secret...how did you train them to do this? What if a pad isn't down? Will they ask to go outside? Have you ever traveled with them? How do they do? Can they distiguish pad from carpet?
suzie

If a pee pad isn't down, they will pee where one used to be.

Shelby has one pee pad upstairs and one down. She runs to it when she has to go. If we are out on a walk or I take her outside and tell her to potty...she will. But I always have to have her two regular pads down in the house.

When we stay at hotels etc. I introduce her to the new pads in the room as soon as we get there (after lots of time in the car). She potties then remembers where it is.

It works and I am so happy we did it this way. No waking me up at night, no accidents on rainy days, no problem if we visit a place with snow on the ground.

The way you teach them to do this is to gate off and area (or put up an expen) put the pee pad down where it will live forever. when you catch them using it, do cartwheels and give them a treat, tell them good potty. pretty soon they will do good potty when you tell them to, just to get a treat. you can give them more freedom when you see they understand...but watch them carefully. if they make a mistake, say nothing and clean up the mess. when they do it right, cartwheels and treats.

Good luck.

My girls are both trained to go on pads, they do not go outside!

i thought lexi was potty trained until i came home yesterday to find
crap on my living room rug, and crap under my bed...just wanna scream. the last 2 weeks have been hell at my house.. pee pee on the rugs.. why i ask?

I wanted Bailey to go outside from the day I brought him home. I did not do the pads or newspaper or anything, I just took him outside over and over, every time I thought about it, and eventually he learned, and eventually I learned his signs, to tell me it was TIME, he'd sit and stare at me, and whine,, and still does that.

Mine is stubborn stubborn stubborn. i could stand at the pad or outside 45min and he refuses to go. He is easily distracted...nosy...and afraid in the backyard. i watch his signs and take him to the pad every 20min etc. Everything I am supposed to do. he has only a small area and if I take him out of it, he is watched like a hawk and frequently taken back to the pad. If he does go...I make a big deal of it and treat him. the pad is by the back door facing the yard. He refuses to use it at night even if he has to go and even if I stand there for 45min. If I put it in the bathroom with me while I am washing my face, he goes right away. I don't want to put him to bed without having "gone" or else I am up all night listening for every movement and yes...he will hold it...all night. he is that stubborn. The more I am getting used to him (it has been less than a week) I am seeing his signs. I think because he is so afraid of the backyard...he doesn't want to use the pad where it is. We go on long walks and he will hold it the entire time.
suz

Housebroken, Kind-of
 

My Sissy is 8 months old and mostly goes outside. I do have the wee wee pads upstairs since we spend many daytime hours in my office and she will not go down the stairs (she fell down once). However, she will not use the wee wee pads, she goes wherever and normally in different spots/rooms. She rarely gives me the signal that she needs to go - she just does. I agree it can be very frustrating. She gets praise everytime she goes outside along with a treat. Not sure what else to try.

outdoor for both

Bella will go outdoors if we are outside (for walks, trips to the park, to wait for the bus to drop my daughter off), etc. She also has a pee pad inside that she uses about 80/20. The 20 happens somewhere in the close vicinity of the pad, just not quite there.

BTW- Bella is 16 weeks.

Lola is about 85% potty pad trained. She has gone outside too, but since I am a condo dweller it is easier inside. She always poops on her pad, but does not always make it to her pad. Some of the time she makes it and sometimes pretty close, but not there. :)

2 years ago we got sibling golden retriever pups in the wintertime - :eek: I said I would never get another pup in the winter - :rolleyes: Um, I brought Mayzie Feb. :snow: LOL Anyway, after dealing with the potty every 20 mins, many. many big messes (big dogs, big poop) and getting up in the middle of the night with them--I opted for pee pads. I am sooooooooooo glad I did too! Mayzie has had a few accidents but honestly, I "trust" her unlike the GRs. They would just cop a squat where as she just doesn't seem to go as often. She sleeps with me/hubby and she has slept the entire night since the get go and has only peed in the bed once (the very first time she was on it). She pees before bed and that is it until my husband gets up around 5 AM sometimes not until 7!!!! Woohoooo! Now she can get up and down off the bed so I am not sure what time she does her thing but she consistently leaves me a couple little tootsie rolls and a puddle on her pad. We have one in our bathroom upstairs and I have 2 downstairs at opposite ends of the house. I am going to get rid of one of them though. When we travel I keep a pad or 2 in her backpack and I will take her to the bathroom lay it down and tell her to go-she does, and I fold it up and put it in a ziploc bag. I wouldn't try this with the cheaper pads though. When I first got her, I had a cardboard box with no bottom or top with a pee pad in it. I would put her in there and tell her to potty and she learned pretty much to do it on command which is a very helpful skill! My first yorkie went outside, I would just open the door for her and out she went. We live in the country and far off of any roads. She was much bigger than Mayzie is. I am scared to let Mayzie out alone due to hawks and eagles. :eek: I might perhaps encourage her on her walks to go potty but I am not going to really push it. I think the pads will be really conveinient when we go camping too.

Sorry this got to be so long.

When TeeJay has to go, he would first run to the door. His preference is to use the great outdoors as a bathroom although I trained him to use the pee pad. He will use the pad when he cannot hold it any longer. But when he has diarrhea, he likes to go in a secluded spot for instance, the laundry room. It's weird, i'm not sure why he does that. Anyway, good luck with everything!

Same here....I used an X-pen. Boys are trained to both. Dudley more than Dinkey for his outside business, but he's getting there. Consistency is the KEY!!!! I love puddle pads!!! GOOD LUCK!!!! :)

I think you are making it too complicated for the dog. How are they supposed to know what is bad weather? (Loki loves snow, I hate it.) How are they supposed to know they can pee on the the pad at your house but they can't pee on the rug at someone else's house. Inside/outside distinction is very clear to dogs. You are better off picking somethig and sticking to it. Eventually your dog can learn to potty on command, then you can use that to tell them where/when it is OK to go. Loki would never pee on mulch until I told him it was OK. Now he will go in mulch if I tell him to.

I too am confused about this. My little Georgia is so little and hasn't had all her shots so we can't do outside training right now. The vet said she doesn't agree with pee pads and outdoor training is best..and I have to agree. It's kind of gross to me to have these diaper pads in my kitchen with pee all over them...but for right now we have to do this. We've taken the pee pad out of her x-pen and put it in the kitchen and next week we'll move it to the front hall..then front porch then finally outside. By then she'll have had all her series of shots and be bigger hopefully. I guess what I'm saying is for right now we have no choice but we will be doing outside training when we can. I just can't see myself having pee pads in the house for the rest of her life. I kind of rambled thanks for reading this!!! Happy Easter!

I had to reply to this one. I too am trying to train Kirby to go on a pad AND outside too. He's only been with me for a week and is not house broken, but is making progress, sort of. I work at home so I can watch him very closely.

When he pees on the carpet, I just yell No! and pick him up and put him on the pad. Pooping is easier to catch because it takes him a little longer to do that one and allows me time to get to him.

We've had several pee 'accidents' on the carpet, each of which I've caught him and moved him to the pad, have had no un-caught accidents. Then finally yesterday he went pee on the pad twice, well one was 80% on the pad so that was still a sucess in my book, the other was 100% on the pad and he got HUGE praise for both of them. Then today he seems to have forgotten what he learned and had an accident on the carpet again. Hmm...

When we are outside and he goes I don't make a huge deal out of it, I just say 'go potty' and good boy when he does so he'll get used to the command and will recognize the 'go potty' command when inside and I place him on the pad.

I'm not sure if I'm confusing him or if this is a good method.

Any thoughts?

You might try keeping in confined in an expen around his inside potty until he uses it on a regular basis. Plus I would give him a tiny piece of treat every time you catch him going potty in a good place.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is an expen? I have all the rooms closed and the hall and kitchen gated off so he is pretty much confined to the living room, which is pretty small, I live in a condo. he sleeps in his kennel (crate) at night and doesn't mind that at all, untill he wakes up in the morning, he pretty much whines until I let him out.

Then I put him on his pad and say 'go potty', but he won't go. I intentionally keep him inside in the mornings so I can train him to go on the pad. but today he didn't go at all, I let him out of the crate around 6:30am but he didn't go potty all morning until we went outside around noon and he went immediately upon getting on the grass and peed for quite a long time, so I know he did have to go but he was holding it in the house, which is a good sign I guess, for outdoor training.

I think he understands that peeing on the carpet is bad but he hasn't made the connection that its okay to go on the pad, the pad is in the breakfeast nook which has a tile floor.

Also, when he has an accident on the carpet I dab a little of his pee on the pad so he can smell it and maybe help with the connection.

Why not try putting the pee pads where he wants to go, like in the bathroom, then after several months when he is using it consistantly start moving it toward the back door, an inch a day.

I have 3 pads in the kitchen, one in here, (the computer room), and one in the laundry room. she spends the majority of the day in the kitchen, and nights in the laundry room.

She goes immediaely when I take her outside, (if she has to go). She has her favorite spots for pooping and peeing outside.

Right now she is getting the pads about 95% of the time. As she gets completely reliable on the pads, I will start to move them toward the door. Right now they're in the spots that she chose to use.

Lexi is both
she was originally pee pad trained bc we lived in WA and she hated going outside and getting wet then we moved to MS and gradually just pulled the pad to the door so she could learn to go outside, and it worked. We put the pad down if we are going to be gone for a long time but when we are home it is put up and somehow she seems to get it. We had a couple accidents at first bc she would look for the pad and it wouldnt be there but after some consistancy lexi got it. Good luck.

This is an expen (exercise pen)
http://www.petco.com/Shop/ProductLis...=22+97+30+5613

It's like having a small bedroom in a room in your house so if you leave, they have everything they need. Shelby had one upstairs with her bed, wee pad, food and water. She learned to use the wee pad by being confined to that area. Downstairs I gated off a small area of the kitchen and left a wee pad down. When I saw her going to it most of the time I gave her more space. If she started having accidents, we started over.

bunjee is indoor potty pad trained and will potty on command. if a potty pad is missing, he'll just potty where the potty pad should be. he used to just hold it outside, but now he'll just go outside if he needs to while we're out.