What make do you use and how much per pad do they cost?

They're a total waste of time, unless you want to confuse a pup by teaching it that's good to mess indoors and then have to teach it that no, it's not good to mess indoors.

Ditto JG. Total waste of money, just makes it harder to house train the pup.

Never used them and doubt that I ever will!

Used them for our fourth dog (current pup) and dont think I'd bother again to be honest- still have over half a pack left :D

Why would you want to use them?  Mine would chew them up, and I woudl worry abotu them ingesting the chamicals or wadding.

If you really need to put something down what's wrong with good old newspaper.

If you really need to put something down what's wrong with good old newspaper.


Absolutely, pups cost a fortune as it is, the price of those pads is ridiculous, I got one in the post once with a voucher and it just so happend to coincide with a litter I had, on a night I put paper down and so thought I'd try it, got up in the morning to find it ripped to shreds, I would never buy them, newspaper is free and at least as Brainless says if they are ripped up it will not endanger a pups life with chemicals or blockage if swallowed. ;-)

The one good use for them is as insurance when you are taking your pup out and about. I'd keep one with me so if the pup started to wee on the train, elevator, etc. it was caught by the pad. They are great for that. Never used them for housetraining in the home.

What a great idea Lori!

Never had that problem, mine have never done anything on a train or bus.

I took a pup from my first litter on the train from London to her new owners (friends) who lived on Anglesey. A folded sheet of newspaper (or one of these pads) on the floor was useful when I took her into the loo so that she could wee without soiling the train - and it was a long journey so she couldn't have lasted. :)

Neither have mine but I had my little insurance policy just in case.

Exactly what I was going to say Lori. And I did use to have a Border Collie who was terribly car sick, and I had to take 2 buses to get to training classes, so always had to lug lots of newspapers around with me as she'd throw up on the bus. Puppy pads would have been easier.

I have never used either puppy pads or newspaper. My dogs have been trained from the start to go outside to poo and wee. I've never seen the sense in training them to paper (newspaper or pads) only to then have to train them to go out...

All of mine were going outside within 2 weeks of being bought home ...obviously they still needed to be encouraged when they were out and it was ongoing for several weeks and months but they ALL were asking to go out very quickly

As with a lot of things...the more time you can put in, the better the results :)

<I've never seen the sense in training them to paper (newspaper or pads) only to then have to train them to go out...>

Couldn't agree more, exactly my thoughts.

I only use paper in a puppy pen or crate in case of accidents to make cleaning up easier, like you I don't paper train, and this is for litters not pups past 6 or so weeks

exactly brainless :)  For litters they are good however for puppies you want to start housetraining with they are awaste of money and time.

We too just encourage the pup outside, our latest pup was whelped in the owners kitchin beside french doors which went out to a small enclosed patio.  AS soon as the litter was old enough they were taken outside numerous times a day to do their business.

By the time she was with us she was trained with only afew accident in the house, most of them by the back door due to us not quite getting there quick enough! :D

She didn't even need paper and infact our first dog we did paper train and had the paper by the back door and found that any papers or mags lieing around the house one of the pups would go on.  Our fault not hers and we soon learn't our mistake and never repeated it.