Washable pee pads vs disposable

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by KendraE

Of course mine are all in Texas Longhorn fabric!!!

hahaha

[lynzy420]

[QUOTE=carmen in nj;3813925]LOL, I guess you mean can the washables be bleached, yes they can but I don't bleach mine, I wash mine is hot water with soap, 1 cap full of white vinegar and a dust of baking soda, and they come out of the dryer smelling angelic..LOL and yes some of my parents that train their pups to use a litter box use the washables with the box. I use the pad holder from Walmart with my washable pads..
here's a picture.. oh and I never had a tracking problem with the washable ones..

LMAO (ranks up there with the human fish oil)!! I'm liking this idea ALOT. I have a super duper state of the art washing machine with the sanitize and extra rinse cycle! However; I think, I will probably just wash them with soap and Odo Ban (I swear by this stuff) and it kills all bacteria etc.,

Two more questions (sorry for the t/j) but how absorbent are they? I have 3 boxes throughout the house, (for my puppies convenience) and right now I am changing them wayyyy tooo many times a day. (approx 5x per box per day).

I'm so excited how many do you think I will need to purchase?

(I am so excited over puppy pads!)

[navillusc]

Ya know...there was a day when we all...well, some of us......used cloth diapers for our human babies, and no one thought much of it.

I know I did, and was quite upset to have to use paper/plastic disposables for my second child due to lack of laundry facilities. Back in that day, they leaked horribly except for Kimbies, were quite expensive, and my child could only wear one brand because the plastic would break his skin out in a horrible rash.

I have a couple disposable pee pads down for my fur babies at the moment...who are still acclimating to their new lives with us, but they rarely use them because they mostly go outside.

I do like the idea of washables...if mine decide they prefer indoors over outside, and since I used cloth diapers, I would have no health qualms about using washable pee pads. I'd just remove all the solid waste, and soak them a bit in pail...or the washer's soak cycle...of vinegar and borax water, wash them in hot (my washer heats its own) water, borax, washing soda, and laundry soap (like all my other laundry), with bleach if they are white, and put vinegar in the rinse cycle...same as I did with the cloth diapers.

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by sbgooljar

Honestly, unless you have a separate washing machine just for those wee pads, I'd say no. I personally prefer disposable since they are more sanitary but it's definitely more expensive.

There is no reason whatsoever to have a separate wash machine for pee pads. Washing a pee pad is no different than any other article of clothing you throw into your washer. I'm sure you wash sheets, towels, underwear and don't take any extra special precautions to wash those article of clothing or consider it unsanitry. Not to mention baby clothes (not any longer at my house) but they were always covered in all types of grossness~pee, poop, spit up and even throw up. Then when my boys were in sports in High School the smells/nastiness that came home along with that was even worse. Always used the same machine but I did/do washed items with ickiness on a hot water prewash and in the separate load. This is what I do now with pee pads, separate load, hot water prewash and then wash as usual. No bleach or anything extra added and I never do anything extra after washing since it just is not necessary and a waste of water.

My only requirement for washable is that they are not the resold hospital pads. I've worked in and around hospitals for years and find it gross to use those in my home. You have no way of knowing what they were exposed to while in use in a hospital environment. I don't care if they have been sanitized, I have a choice of buying pee pads that have never been used by others.

I've been using disposables for over a year and all mine are from T. Bumpkins.
Washable and reusable dog and puppy pee pads, belly bands, and diapers by T. Bumpkins & Co.

The T. Bumpkins pads are very absorbent, never have leakage problems and they wash wonderfully! They all look brand new and believe me I have beat them up over the past year or so. I also like the idea of being able to order different sizes and fabrics to match my laundry room. I started out with the smaller size but just ordered the largest and love it.

With the disposables, when Doodlebug was a puppy he always made a mess of them and it was a reoccurring cost. I started with just one disposable to try and added from there.

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by navillusc

Ya know...there was a day when we all...well, some of us......used cloth diapers for our human babies, and no one thought much of it.

I know I did, and was quite upset to have to use paper/plastic disposables for my second child due to lack of laundry facilities. Back in that day, they leaked horribly except for Kimbies, were quite expensive, and my child could only wear one brand because the plastic would break his skin out in a horrible rash.

I have a couple disposable pee pads down for my fur babies at the moment...who are still acclimating to their new lives with us, but they rarely use them because they mostly go outside.

I do like the idea of washables...if mine decide they prefer indoors over outside, and since I used cloth diapers, I would have no health qualms about using washable pee pads. I'd just remove all the solid waste, and soak them a bit in pail...or the washer's soak cycle...of vinegar and borax water, wash them in hot (my washer heats its own) water, borax, washing soda, and laundry soap (like all my other laundry), with bleach if they are white, and put vinegar in the rinse cycle...same as I did with the cloth diapers.

I can remember my mom doing all that when I was little. My sisters and I would all go down into our basement and she would do the laundry and now that I think about it that was a LOT of hard work

Thankfully, by the time I had my kids disposable diapers were very good and we all used them. When my youngest was a baby (she's 16 now) I use to joke that a disposable diaper was so absorbent we could toss it into our pool and it would be capable of absorbing the entire pool dry! Unlike cloth diapers, I really don't think the pee pads need that much treatment. Mine always come out spelling clean after a hot water rinse and regular wash cycle.

[navillusc]

Originally Posted by megansmomma

I can remember my mom doing all that when I was little. My sisters and I would all go down into our basement and she would do the laundry and now that I think about it that was a LOT of hard work
...
Unlike cloth diapers, I really don't think the pee pads need that much treatment. Mine always come out spelling clean after a hot water rinse and regular wash cycle.

I never found it to be a lot of work...not like at gramma's when I was itty bitty...(I am only 26 now ) with the rub board, and all......and it was a lot less smelly than disposables. It did take a little time, especially the folding part. The stuff in the wash took care of most of it, and it was only a couple seconds to dump all the liquids and powders...and shave the laundry soap up...into the automatic dispensers...which I've always had, as well as a pre-wash-soak--advance-to-wash cycle on my washing machines. The final vinegar rinse took care of so much in the way of micro-organisms...although I washed just about every day...and made the diapers 'rash-free' as well. It was a trick I learned from my gramma, who used vinegar almost as much as water......and my pediatrician said that was how diaper services made their diapers "diaper rash free' too.

[carmen in nj]

I love and buy from Ryan at newpuppypads.com
and I don't think washing them is a lot of trouble, they are more absorbent than the disposable ones by a long shot, also my dogs do not track pee on the floor. I do change them daily every morning. I have a baby diaper pail with a lid and keep the used ones there and wash every other day.
hugs,

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by carmen in nj

I love and buy from Ryan at newpuppypads.com
and I don't think washing them is a lot of trouble, they are more absorbent than the disposable ones by a long shot, also my dogs do not track pee on the floor. I do change them daily every morning. I have a baby diaper pail with a lid and keep the used ones there and wash every other day.
hugs,

What made you stop using the hospital pads, did you have a negative experience with them?

[carmen in nj]

Originally Posted by megansmomma

What made you stop using the hospital pads, did you have a negative experience with them?

No it was the shipping charges...LOL, they charge as much as the cost of the pads, plus I would only use those for pee, I use the Ryan ones for whelping the babies too, and his shipping charges are very fair..
hugs,

[peachesmom1sc]

i like this one and they wash up good

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by carmen in nj

No it was the shipping charges...LOL, they charge as much as the cost of the pads, plus I would only use those for pee, I use the Ryan ones for whelping the babies too, and his shipping charges are very fair..
hugs,

Sometimes when you start figuring things like shipping, great deals are not what you originally thought.

[carmen in nj]

yes, that is true, plus I only use NEW pads for whelping babies, then I wash them recover them, so we don't see the stains and use them for pee pee, I just used the last new ones I had for this litter, so I need to go and order more, but I have at least a year now, my Delilah just had a season and I did not breed her,so she is next when she comes into season..
hugs,