Has anyone NEVER used Pee Pads?
 

I have read a TON of posts over the last few days regarding a lot of situations, but it seems 90% of people here use pee pads!?!? I am a person who (and this is just TOTALLY MY OPINION!!)believes that putting the puppy outside is the best way for it to learn not to go inside (pee pad or not). To me it was like raising my kids, I didn't believe in PULL UPS........I thought it was sending the wrong message. I hope I don't get people upset, but I am from MN and it's been snowing but we still TREK outside to do our business, he has had a few accidents, but I am adament about bringing him out every 1/2 hour if he's up (he's ALMOST 10 weeks) but I am interested in how long it took people who ONLY BROUGHT THEIR puppy OUTSIDE to potty train. WE have only had Scruffy for 2 weeks, and we are working hard at it, and he is doing great................so far:) :coolsmile :yay_jump: :yay_jump:

Thanks so much!!

Certainly, you're right about outside potty being THE optimum solution. However, there are circumstances that just don't allow for some people to take or let pups out. For these, inside training is a MUST.

I have one 25lb, 12y/o mix who is (of course) trained to go outside. And, my 6lb Abbie I can't let out, for fear something will happen to her and I cannot always be with her. I'm SO PROUD of Mozart for not taking up marking my house because Abbie is allowed to go inside. What a guy!

i agree with you 100%
i have never liked pee pee pads
it took a few weeks to get my boys 100% outside trained give it time your almost there !

I hate peepads and in the past I only used them when chachi and Jewels first came home because it was winter and I didnt want to take them out when they were so tiny. However Jewels decided this year that she didnt want to go out in the cold weater and I had to use the potty pads. Now she has gotten over that and goes outside again and I am happy.

we've never used them... to me it was just a step getting in the way of her going outside! the only time i wish she could use them is if we are flying.. and i need her to pee before we leave... however... now that i've had her for a while.. she is very "regular" in her pee and pooping so i can now know when she will have to go...

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when I start the pups I put newspaper by the door that i take them out. when they head for the newspaper i take them out so they figure out that hmm if i go to the paper by the door we go out and i go out with them til they pee or poop. but then there is the confusion of getting outside when it is raining... hmmm. actually PepperAnn who just delivered 6 puppies Last Thursday even wanted to go out in the rain this morning cold Tennessee rain I am surprised it didnt snow... but it doesnt bother her... i feel for them even thought of getting one of those doggie liter boxes. but then I thought that would confuse them so I havent...:)

I did try (<---try being the optimal word) when Baby was a baby b/c it came with her "puppy kit." Needless to say, she didn't use them at all, and now she is trained...well, about 70% so far, to go outside. We do not have any pee pads in the house. ;) But that doesn't mean there isn't pee pee and poo on the floor! :eek:

The "best" way in my opinion, would be to have a dog that was 100% trained to use both! That way, when you were home you would take him/her out. But, if you were running late, you knew you wouldn't have to rush home to take out the dog b/c he/she would know to use the pads. That way...no messes. But, I wonder if there are dogs like that. :)

My two Yorkies are outside trained as well as wee-wee pad trained. We do not relish going out in the rain and the dogs just wont!! We like traveling, so the pads work perfectly in the motor home or motel when we don't particularly fond of going out at night or early morning in strange places or if the weather is terrible. It just works perfectly for our family.
What ever works for each person is key. There are not rights and wrongs.

I have never used pee pads!

She's "regular!" You are so lucky!!!! :thumbup: :D

You are lucky too!!! :thumbup: I guess you answered my question! :D

what ever works for you. I find it handy for when it's rainy and they don't want to go out and for instances like this morning when we woke up to 6 inches of snow, and they had to pee before I could get a path shoveled.

I have as doggie door and 99% of the time they go out but there are times when they will use the pee pad.

Nope, never used them.

Thanks!
 

Thanks so much for the replies, I just went upstairs to put a roast in the crock and came down to 12 wonderful responses, you guys are AWESOME....and fast!!


I realize it takes persistance and consistency. Fortunately I pick my own hours at work, and really only need to be there for 2 hours in the morning, so I put him in his crate, run to work and am back before his nap is even over with:) :D

But those who HAVE only OUTSIDE pottied, how long did it take you/or is it taking you to potty train? Abies mom......that is just SOOO awesome that it took you two weeks, that has to be rare, but CONGRATS to you!! Did she actually start going to the door at two weeks? That brings me to another question.....when do they actually start going to the door versus just being trained??

Thanks!!

Grayson is trained for outside and we have never used a pad on him still working on the training he knows what to do outside just a matter of him telling us he needs to go, needles to say I take out about every 2 hours

We never used pads. Loki went outside from the day we got him and he was pretty reliable by 10 months and 100% by a year. (He had some UTIs and other bladder issues so that's pretty good! He was OK if I took him out all the time, by reliable I meant he would let ME know...) I would never use pads. I know some people have to work all day... but I don't think that a Yorkie puppy should be left alone all day even with pads. A dog walker or doggie daycare, or even a neighbor, would be necessary. We waited until our schedules were flexible before getting him and on days when we can't let him out I drop him off at the trainer's.

When you are training you do have to let them out like every hour until they can learn to tell you they need to go. And you have to watch them every second. And sometimes you have to stand outside for 10 minutes waiting for them to poop! (Once Loki got the hang of it he rarely spent more than 2 minutes outside.) Some people here think I am crazy, but it's all worth it to me. I know I've had people on here ask what you do when your dog doesn't use pads and needs to pee in the middle of the night. Um, you let them out. Then you go back to sleep. Not a big deal!! But some people act like it is. I guess my thought is that if you want a dog with an iron bladder get a Lab. I am allergic to just about every other breed so I feel fortunate just to have a DOG. Getting up in the middle of the night once in a while is a small price to pay. Yorkies have to pee twice as often as big dogs. They are small. It makes sense. It's not a huge deal.

Oh, and it snows here too! And we don't have a fence so Loki goes outside on a leash...

I have tried puddle pads. My thinking is that they would be absolutely perfect since there's days that no one's home for hours (work/school).

And if she would use them, they probably would be. Our problem is that she seems terrified of the silly pad! You put her on it and she starts shaking and acting like "OH NO!"

So we're about 75% outside trained, and instead of using puddle pads, we're going to cut a hole in our wall and install a door where we can put a puppy door to a fenced area for her to go out when no one's home. That's the only thing I know to do at this time :animal36

I use the pads all the time. Hannah is so little and our yard is so wet that I just don't want her to get wet and dirty and then when she goes outside the other dogs wont leave her alone and let her do her business. I would love for her to go outside but right now it is better to use pads. My husband is putting a privacy fence up this weekend and we are planning to put a doggy door in for her when she gets a little older. She uses the potty pads about 90% of the time. I have it by the back door so when we do try to transition over to outside maybe it wont be too confusing for her.

I don't use pee pads.They are 100% trained to potty outside. However when the weather is yucky I wish they would use one.

Have you tried a bell on your door? We had two completely trained dogs once we trained to ring a bell to go out. Tink was about 6 months old when we introduced the bell. It works great!

Hi there! And welcome to YT from another Minnesotan. I have 2 dogs that are trained to go outside and I never used paper or pee pads with them. They both took until appprox 5-6 months before they were 90% or better and it was at least a year before I trusted them completely. My Yorkie is now litterbox and outside trained, and I would say she has been 98% since 10 months old and in the last 2 months, she has been outstanding!! I must say, that I work full time and I am sure that made the training process a bit longer for me. I just prefer that she be able to go inside, and when a pup, it was sooo nice not to have to go outside every night 2 or three times, instead, we would just go to the pee pad.:) Now she will go ring a bell at the door to go outside, and if she doesn't like the weather (rain) she will just go to her litterbox. Keep us posted on how your little one is doing and congratulations on becoming a Yorkie Mom!!!:thumbup:

Buddy is my first puppy, others were trained when I got them.
I used the crate methond and he caught on immediately.
He can go for 10hrs, possible more if need be, with no accidents.


Carol & Buddy:aimeeyork

When I owned medium to larger breeds they were trained outside. Now with the cold weather my small ones would freeze outside and by the time I dress 3 of them in quilted parkas, accidents inside.

Do you crate him at nite also? Do you get up in the middle of the nite to take him outside? My Hanna is 10 weeks old and just have alot of questions.:)

when i first got gracie i planned on her being trained to go outside i had never really known much about pee pads and such since my other dog was trained for outside ... well i brought her out all the time severalll times a day and she just wansnt getting it and would always go on the pads i had out so i decided pee pads were best for her but if it works for you thats great!

We've never used pee pads. Don't want the smell in my house!

Oh ours are the same age, fun!!! Yes, I crate during the day and night, he loves his crate!!! I have had wonderful luck with him at night!!! Out of the 13 nights that I have had him, he has probably slept through the night half the time, other than that he gets up at 4:30, I bring him out to go potty and put him back in his crate until we all get up (times vary ranging from 5:30-7:30 for when we get up) The most he has whined at night is 1/2 hour, otherwise since then it's only been 10 minutes of whining at night when I put him back in the crate.

They don't make your house smell if you change the pads often.

We do have pee pads in our house (the washable one) but our three are trained to go outside mainly. We have a doggie door which made teaching them to go outside very easy, they go when the need to. But we have the pee pads for during the day when no one is home (we close the doggie door when they are by themselves). And for the last week, we have had ice or rain and the grass is all muddy so we just have let them use the pee pads to help prevent mud in the house.

We got Captain at 12 weeks and within two weeks he was 90% trained and now at 17 weeks he is 100% trained either to a pee pad or outside. He learned so quickly and is crated at night and has never had an accident in there. During the day he is in a X Pen and has a pad in there he uses and never misses.

I say use whatever works for you...we did want worked best for us and have all three of them completely trained by 6 months with just the occasionay accident.

Lucy and Tucker have never used them. And we got them at 8 weeks, at the tail end of Sept. and live in northern IL- so the weather hasn't always been the greatest. I'd say it took about 12 weeks to get to about 85% house broken for both of them. There's still an accident now and then.

Teresa

We've never used pee pads. I thought it was a great idea when I got Tatum but since I wanted to train her to go outside, I thought the pee pads would be confusing for her. Luckily, we hardly ever have weather bad enough that she won't go out. She'll even go out in the rain. She's almost 3 years old now (wow, where DOES the time go???) and we can stand at the door and watch her run out, do her business and run right back in. BUT I can remember the days of fighting over who was gonna be the one to stand outside in the cold while she ran around finding her spot. That first year was a doozy! I just made sure we took her out every hour and watched her like a hawk.

I can definitely see the advantage of pee pads though.... if you live in an apartment and can't easily go out (and down the stairs) constantly or if you live where the weather gets bad. I'm just a firm believer of outside training and luckily it worked for us!