Puppy Pads vs Fake Grass For Indoor Potty Training

 puppy pads versus fake grass

for indoor potty training which one

is best for you and your dog do you like

the artificial grass

like this one that fits into a

tray or the real grass like

doggy lawn or fresh patch

or do you like the potty pads we're

going to talk about

all of them and give you the pros and

cons of

each of the indoor potty training

so you've decided you're going to

potty train your dog indoors

there are many advantages to it one

of course is if you have a new puppy and

they haven't had their vaccinations

they don't have to go out in public

second one

is if you're delayed and can't get home

your dog or your puppy is not stressed

because they

can't go to the bathroom third one

is if you live in a high rise or an

apartment building

you know you have to scoop the puppy up

run to the elevator wait for the

elevator and then if there are people in

the elevator maybe you don't even get on

all this while your puppy is struggling

in your arms

if you are fortunate to have a yard

and you think well i'll just take my dog

outside

it's really so convenient to not have to

go out

in the rain you don't have to put on the

boots

and the umbrella and take your dog out

and for mine

they're just going to stand out there

and stand on three legs

and lift that fourth one and say i'm not

going to pee out here

it's too wet and of course the same

thing when it snows

you don't have to worry about shoveling

the snow and shoveling a path

and also if you have an elderly dog

great way

to help an elderly dog is to create an

indoor potty area

so there are some of the reasons why i

use

an indoor potty area for my dogs

so how do you keep a puppy from peeing

everywhere in your house in your

apartment

now we're going to talk about the

different choices

first one we reviewed was the spotty

indoor dog potty and this has a tray

and on the tray you put a disposable

potty pad

you put the grate down on top and then

you put down the synthetic mat

this is very porous i had this set up

when i

had the dogs at my office and i thought

this will work pretty well

i won't have anything the

pads on the floor but what happened was

you had to pick up the synthetic mat

and the grate and i had to keep a

waste paper basket very close by with a

lid because then i would put the soil

disposable puppy pads in the waste paper

basket

but then i was faced with the synthetic

mat

that had been peed on so i needed to

wash it

so i had to find a utility sink or

something that i could wash it in

even washing it very well and letting it

dry

because you almost needed two because

you washed one and it was heavy

and over time these synthetic mats

need to be replaced because they do get

stinky so that was the first one the

spotty indoor

potty the second one that i reviewed

was the porch potty it looks nice

it has its own little frame the grass

sits in the frame

they encourage you to use a drainage

system

so they have a basin that fits

underneath when your dog

urinates on the grass you are supposed

to

daily wash the grass and let the water

run

into the drainage basin take the

drainage basin out dump it in the toilet

so their other alternative is to attach

a hose

to let it drain into your garden off the

deck or something

i wasn't so sure about that one looks

nice but to me it was a lot of work

some people use kitty litter to help

so that there's not as much of a urine

running in all of the synthetic mats

need to be replaced quite frequently

even if you wash them down they still

tend to have an

odor so the pros of porch potty

looks nice would look nice on your deck

or on your balcony

if you are okay with watering

the grass and pulling out the little

drainage basin

and dumping it i think it said about 12

gallons of

water needed to fully rinse the grass

that's a little bit of work each day and

it is expensive

between everything for the entire setup

it's maybe 250.

so that was a lot and then the grass

needs to be replaced

on a regular basis so the next one that

we reviewed was the real grass

and that was doggy lawn and fresh patch

they are both real grass they have

no dirt no soil and

fresh patch comes in its box you can see

in the picture

it has a box it's like a waxed on the

inside to keep

it from the water from draining

and it can actually stay in the box you

can open the box and fold it flat and

that's the way your dog can use

it very simple you have to replace the

grass

on a regular basis every couple weeks

every three weeks four weeks

depending on how often your dog uses the

fresh patch the other one is doggy lawn

now i made the mistake with doggy line i

ordered a

tray that was much too big a piece of

grass

that was way too big but i was doing it

for two dogs so i wanted to make

sure i had a large enough piece now one

of my dogs immediately

peed and pooped on the doggy lawn grass

the other one never touched it

i had it for three weeks she never went

near it

so just the difference in the dog so

your dog might love it from the very

beginning

my problem with the doggy lawn was the

piece i had

of course i could pick up the poop off

of it very easily

i didn't have to rinse it because it was

real grass and i thought oh this is good

but then it started to get all stinky

because it had been two and a half weeks

and so i was going to order another one

and i thought oh my goodness i can't

even lift this

it was so heavy so for me at the time

i had shoulder surgery i only had one

good arm so for me

it didn't work so i have synthetic grass

that i really wasn't pleased with i have

the real grass

that had drawbacks now i never had any

bugs in mine

but some people had said that they found

a lot of bugs in the real grass

but i can't say that so what do i do

i went back to what i've always used

which are the potty pads

and in this video you'll see how i set

up

my corner for the potty pads this is the

area i've chosen for my potty area

i have a nice little corner eventually

my puppy will run over here and go potty

on

one potty pad or two

uh but right now i'm gonna cover the

whole area

i like to use a pad holder

harder for the puppy to dig it up to dig

up the corners

easier to keep it down and keep it

secure

so this is my potty pad holder

i like it because it opens and you put

the potty pad in and you clip

and then of course you do the same thing

on the other side

and then i lay potty pads on top

now i can just hear people out there

saying oh no potty pads

never all they do is shred them

they lay on them they play with them and

it'll teach them to go

everywhere in my house well that's not

what i find

i use the tray the iris

holder for the potty pads

the holder keeps the edges clamped down

if my puppy starts to dig at the pad i

just simply remove them

same i was do if i had the grass i'd

remove them

from the grass and i remove them from

the pad

redirect them then bring them back i

only leave them in the potty area for 10

minutes

and if they start to play with the pads

just take them out

attach them to you keep them with you

and then take them back this little clip

shows nikki we're both upstairs

and nikki comes downstairs pees on the

puppy pad

then goes upstairs and finds me and

we come down and i give her a treat

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my dogs are 99 trained for puppy pads

the only time they aren't is they don't

like to use a soiled pad

so if the pad is soiled on a rainy night

i better make sure there are enough

clean pads down or

they may go off the side of one but

that's rare

we can also do a video comparing the

washable

puppy pad which is this one to the

disposable puppy pad

would you like to see a video on a

comparison of those

please put it in the comments below we

can do

a video comparing doggy lawn

to fresh patch would that be interesting

for you

what do you use for your puppy for

indoor

potty training i hope you've enjoyed my

comparison

of puppy pads to

fake grass and real grass please watch

the video above on potty pad training

how to train

a puppy to use potty pads thank you

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