Hi all
First I'd just like to say that Angel has been doing great! I've been taking her to the park and she never strays far and plays really well! The general training is coming along fine and everythings great! The only thing is that she's not great with the toilet training. She's usually fine when we're there but when we go out she's terrible and will mess everywhere, never in the same spot!
If we put paper down she rips it to shreds! So, to get to the point, does anyone know the best place to buy puppy training pads?
Does Wilsons Pet Shop sell them or should I get them off the net?
Thanks!
Jo and Angel

Have you thought of using a crate when you go out?  I never suggest paper training or puppy pads.  They just make the whole process longer from my own experience.  What I would do is when you leave the house I would put her in a dog crate with a chew toy and maybe the radio on.  This will deter her from destroying anything, hurting herself and it helps with potty training because most dogs don't like to potty in the crate/den.

I got mine from Pets at home, quite resonable as well, a box of 50 for £29.00 i think.

Jenna.

Hopefully will be needing some more if everything goes to plan to getting a new puppy :-)

Puppy pads are a really bad idea.  You teach puppy to pee in the house and then you have to start again to teach him to go outside.  I talk to lots of puppy owners in the course of my work and every one that is having house training problems with an older pup have started them off on puppy pads.  I'm sure that there are exceptions to this but this is my experience.  Only one of my rescues has been a nightmare to housetrain and he was taught to go indoors on newspaper. (same thing)

Sally

Im i confussing them with something else?? Are they to replace newspaper? a soft top with protective bottom to prevent waste leaking through?

Jenna

A poor substitute for a newspaper.  They don't have a crossword.  ;)  but seriously why not teach puppy to go outside from the outset?  If they do their business on puppy pads they are learning to toilet WHERE the pads are and are likely to still do it when they are not there.  Another important process of house training is learning to cross your legs and hold on for a bit.  If puppy is free to go whenever they need to they'll take much, much longer to learn bowel and bladder control. 
Sally

I understand what you mean, i only used them at night time or when i was out for a short time, when i was at home i took her out every half hour - hour, after every feed and play. I thought they worked quite well, but i did use them from the first day i got her, only after a week or so of being in her new home she was sitting at the door wanted to go out.

Probably stick to newspaper when i get my new puppy,

Jenna

I used them for paper training my last litter - saw them in the local pet shop and decided to give them a try. I thought they worked very well and I was able to remove the paper from all but a small part of the whelping room in a couple of days. I used them again on top of a larger area of paper when the pups came out to the kitchen and the pups got the hang of using that corner only very quickly. Admittedly the litter also had regular trips outside but all of the pups sold (and the two I kept) were clean in their new homes without paper in less than a week.

Thanks for all your replies. Angel is Crate Trained at night but I cannot leave her there during the day as I work full time. There are other people in the house but they would be useless at remembering to put her in her crate and taker her out again and they never remember to put her out. So basically I want to just make sure that she only goes in one spot when i'm out rather than all over the kitchen floor! And then to go outside when I'm there, which she pretty much does anyway.
Does that make sense?

Instead of puppy pads which seem really expensive you could try human incontinence pads. I use these for one of my dogs who has bouts of the runs, i get mine from work but I;m sure they would work out cheaper.

I assume you mean the ones intended for bed use, not the ones for fitting in underwear???

lol, yes the ones for bed!

I occassionally use training pads if I leave Becks in the kitchen while I am out as he too rips you paper to shreads.  My only criticism is if he does one wee on a big pad then you have to throw ir away which is really expensive.  You could just cut that corner off or not if your pup is like becks and goes directly in the middle of the pad!!!