Housetraining Pads… can they chew 'em?
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I'm one of those folks who advises against using puppy wee wee pads in crates, period. The pads are impregnated with a scent to entice the dog to relieve themselves and thus it could teach the dog to relieve itself in the crate. Newspapers are an affordable and relatively safe bedding. You can buy rolls of unprinted newspaper at the newspaper printers. These are solid white and thus do not leave ugly grey all over a Basenji's pretty white feet.
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I bought a pad today for Keoki that is guaranteed to not be tear-able. If he tears it w/in the first 7 days, we get our money back.
I put it in for the drive home and Keoki curled right up and went to sleep. Usually he shreds and whines in the car. So maybe…. {or maybe he was just exhausted from his big day}.
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LOL Got my money back this morning for the "indestructable" crate pad. hee hee Keoki had it torn in three places in the hour it took us to drive back for the second day of the show. ha ha….
Ha, ha! I did the same thing many years ago with Querk at a show….we bought it, put it in his crate on the way to the hotel. By the time we got there it was trash...the next day I took it back to the guy and dumped it out on the floor of his booth ;)
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Cairo is 7months now and will unstuff toys (not eat) and will eat pieces of towels if I put them in the crate. I think it is just a stage that they pass through with age.
I like the gray padding/ bedding that fits the shape of the kennel exactly. If they have an accident, it absorbs in, they can only destuff the edges and cant tear it apart.
I think the towels are kinda a sucking chewing thing.
The pads (at Petsmart) are super easy to throw in the washer for the occasional accident.
Puppy pads have a particular scent which helps puppys know where to go to release themselves. I would not suggest using this in the kennel because you may be working against yourself with potty training.
Typically my guys may have accidents, but they are usually pretty upset about it when I get home. Almost like they are embarrased.
Caesar even taught himself to drink less in the morning to stop having accidents while I was at work. He guzzled water as a puppy.
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Keoki apparently didn't like my being gone last week. He cried a lot at night and tore up his night-time bedding,which is something he NEVER chews {I take it out when we crate him during the day or he will tear it. But he never shreds at bedtime}. My son replaced it, and Keoki tore it up again. The last couple of nights he slept on bits and pieces of fluff and rags.
I got home Sunday night, went out and bought the same kind of bedding for night-time and we've had no problems. He goes to sleep in his crate just like he should and his bedding is still intact.
Sigh. I am leaving again Monday through Friday. I expect things will go as they did last time. I've already bought a cheapie little bed that I guess he can tear up while I'm gone.
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Poor Daisy gets nothing . . . Hope you all don't think I'm mean, but even if there is urine soaked newspaper or paper towel, there is still an unsanitary mess to clean - right? Wicked puddles would be better than not. I really fear that Daisy would eat the paper towel. I'll try it and see what she does, next time she's crated.
Since this post, I gave Daisy a washable round bed pad for her crate. It has been over a week and she has not destroyed it, nor has she peed in her crate. I wasn't so much worried about the pee as with destruction. She loves laying on it - as she should because she is used to the sofa when we're home and sleeps on my son's bed at night. You just never know when to give back privileges until the guilt sets in. :o However, when Duke & Daisy are outside, they lie on concrete or hardwood. The plastic crate pan on carpet is much nicer :p but cozier with the pad. Thanks, I got some good info here.
