How do I train a puppy to use a puppy pad?
You probably who live in a city, or don’t want to go through the chore of taking a puppy outdoors five or six times a day.Puppy pads are a shortcut to housebreaking. Set out four pads at first, in order to zero in on exactly the part of the pad where the puppy will relieve himself. As the puppy begins to use them correctly and to refine and mature his behavior, you can remove the pads until there is only one left, at exactly the spot . where he will go every time.
In order to attract the puppy to the pad, find a piece of grass or dirt with the scent of urine or feces from another dog on it and place it on the pad. This may sound distasteful to you, but the presence of another dog’s excrement will stimulate your puppy’s brain to pee right over it. Eventually you won’t need to do this, once the puppy is conditioned to the pads. Make sure to give the dogs a place to sleep that is far away from the pads, since dogs don't like their bedroom and their bathroom to be in to close to each other.
Roll up the used pads and immediately mop up the floor beneath the pads so there is no more scent. This is a must for using pads, newspapers, or anything you put on the floor for the puppy to relieve himself on: always replace the used pad immediately and clean up the floor underneath, because a dog doesn’t want to pee on a place where he himself has already peed.
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