PETMAKER 4-Layer Dog Grass Pad with Tray, Small

For reference, I bought this for Reese, my five month old six lb. Chorkie and placed it on my back patio. Previously, we have been taking her out the front door to the grass on a leash. This is so we can just let her out on the gated patio and not have suit up to go out in the cold at all hours of the night. By the way, my puppy seems to be ultra smart. She learns very quickly and is eager to please. She already has us well trained, lol.Day one: I put some turds on it and when she went out she put her front paws on the mat and peed on the concrete. I soaked up the pee with a paper towel and squeezed it on the mat (wearing rubber gloves) and gave her praise. I later discovered you can just pick up the faux grass and pat the puddle with it, much easier! She later pooped on the patio and I moved the poop to the mat again praising her for going potty on the patio (and not inside the house).Day two: She peed on the mat for Daddy, but every time Mommy lets her out she holds her pee and will only poop on the patio, but not on the faux grass. I removed the old piles of poop that I placed on the grass, just in case she needs the space. Remember that prior to this, she only went potty out the front door on a leash in the grass. So this is a totally new and probably confusing concept to her, as this is the back door, no leash, Mommy and Daddy are inside and the grass is fake.Day three: She peed and pooped on the patio, but not on the faux grass. We are at this point pretty happy that she is confident going on the patio. We can hose it off. One thing to note is that she saw me cleaning up the poop and spraying the pee and washing it. I think this confused her, because she has seen me in the past clean her accidents inside the house, after having scolded her. So I think when she saw me cleaning her patio messes she might have thought she did bad. I would suggest cleaning it when they are not looking.Day four: No pee pees on the faux grass yet. Maybe when Daddy gets home he can get her to go. Maybe I give up too quickly. I take her out the front door if she doesn't perform out back. I'm just afraid that if I don't, she will go in my new house and I love that new house smell.Day five: She is pottying on the back porch, one time next to the mat, but most of the time nowhere close to it. We have a new problem, for some reason, she now squats and pees on the indoor house carpet right in front of me when I ask her to roll over! I have no idea where this came from, as she absolutely loved rolling over for treats. I think all of this has just really confused her. I'm going to go on YouTube and see if there are any videos showing tips on how to get them to pee on a pad. (No tips found).Day six: Today we got a poop that landed on the pad. She backed up to it and did her business. Technically only half the turd landed on the grass, but it was time for a poopy party! We celebrated her accomplishment. The rest of the day, she did her business on the back patio, but not on the grass. Thankfully she is back to rolling over and not thinking it means to squat and pee. We just make sure to let her out to potty before doing inside tricks (which she loves doing).Day seven: We got a pee on the faux grass! Just one, but we are seeing progress, so we are happy. We let her out onto the porch and watch from inside, no coaxing or trying to direct her to the pad (it's too cold outside for that). So we are hoping that she will gravitate to that pad on her own.Day eight: The last five peepee's have been on the pad!!!! The poopoo's are landing closer too.Day nine: I'm so please to report that Reesie now runs straight for the faux grass to do ALL of her peepee!!! Her poos are still landing elsewhere on the porch, but I'm okay with that because they are easier to clean, especially now that it's 15 degrees outside (think poop sickles)! Let me reiterate that I have done no coaxing toward the grass, I just patted her initial puddles with the pad to get her smell on it. I then gave treats and praise for going outside, with extra praise for going on the pad. I am removing the poo now from the patio and placing the freshest batch on the pad. We may still buy a second one, for extra space and to take on vacation with us (we stay at beach condos/houses and would probably transport it in the bed of our truck as I'm sure it smells like pee). I saw a video on YouTube where they placed two just outside the door and gated the area to include only the pads, so the puppy had no choice but to go on the pad! Excellent idea!I'm upgrading my review to five stars!!!!! This thing is SO WORTH IT!!!! Especially now that it's 15 degrees outside!!!! I will update when the poo starts landing on the grass.SMELL: As far as smell goes, there is none, it's too cold for that, all pee pee is turning to ice in the bottom tray and I just discard the p'ice.

I tried the blue and white absorbent dog pads. I really did. They stayed true to their word and absorbed the urine and neutralized the odors, but my Parti Yorkie puppy never consistently figured them out. She'd pee on them (or near them) in her dog pen, she’d chew them to shreds if I didn’t wake up soon enough (I wake up early!), and she’d lay on them like a bed at times. Ewww!! When she was out of the pen, it was a constant battle to get her to pee on her outside-the-pen pad.Enter the PETMAKER fake grass...I bought two - one for inside the pen and one for outside the pen. She figured out the inside-the-pen grass faster because the absorbent pad was gone (I inserted a blue and white absorbent pad under the grass for a few days to have proof that she was peeing there), but she also had plenty of accidents in her pen, so I knew we had to do some training. The outside-the-pen grass was where the magic happened. I started by introducing the grass - putting a treat on the grass and saying, "go on the grass" and then praising her when she walked on the grass to get her treat. She liked that game. Then, when I knew she knew what “grass” meant, I took things to a new level. Whenever I would find pee on the floor, I would flip the new grass upside down and rub it in the pee. If the pee was in a tricky spot, I'd get a tissue (which is not so absorbent) and sop up most of her pee and then rub it on the grass. She started noticing that the smell of the grass had changed and that it smelled like HER PEE.I’d see her doing a lot of smelling around the room before she needed to pee and I’d say “Go pee on the grass” and she’d run to the grass (because she understood “grass”), but then she’d wander the grass and end up peeing near it. Each time she’d pee ON the grass, I’d say a higher pitched, “YES!” to anchor the proper behavior, I’d praise her, and I’d give her a small piece of cheese to reward her choice. Each time she peed off the grass, I’d say nothing and quietly clean up the mess. One day it just clicked. I saw her squatting to pee on the carpet and I was thinking to myself, “Seriously? Not AGAIN.” And just as I was starting to feel really disappointed, I saw her stop what she was doing and run to the grass and pee! Of course I praised her profusely and gave her a well-earned piece of cheese!She quickly figured out that the more times she peed on the grass, the more times she’d get cheese, so she’d come pee 3-5 drops and look up at me optimistically. Of course I gave her cheese and said, “YES!” (because she did the right thing), and the behavior began to be more and more automatic.I encountered one problem with the Petmaker system, and that is the middle layer which keeps the grass from sitting in urine. It’s a great concept, but my little dog decided it was a great chew toy. After waking up to find that she had chewed off over an inch of the corner of the middle layer (and worrying about how much she had swallowed), I decided to outthink her and rub Tabasco on each of the four corners of the middle layer. She smelled and smelled and smelled those corners, and I’m guessing she probably tried eating it once because she has never tried chewing it again. (We used the Tabasco method on a printer cable she tried chewing and it worked beautifully there, too.)I’ve moved on to teaching her to poop on the grass. To aid in this quest, I’ve sprinkled kibble in every area where she normally likes to poop. That kinda made the area a prohibited poop area in her mind. Also, whenever I do any kind of training with her around the house, I purposely drop food or treats in areas where I know she’s pooped. Her options of where to poop (aside from the grass) are shrinking by the day. There are three areas she still tries (probably because I haven’t sprinkled food there yet). This week, when I see her sniffing in those areas, I’ve been saying, “Poop on the grass,” whenever I see her starting to smell out a poop spot. She’ll run to the next poop spot and I’ll say, “Poop on the grass,” and she’ll run to the next poop spot, but eventually, if I can keep up with her, she actually poops on the grass (and gets a better treat than a pee treat)! Today she took things to the next level because no one was watching her or saying anything and she went up to the grass and pooped on it!My next step (once the pee and poop thing happens EVERY time) is to start scooting the grass pad a few inches closer to the door (2-3 inches per day) and then it will reside on the deck and then it will be moved to the lawn where it will ultimately be eliminated. Honestly, I’ll still keep this grass pad for future use because when it snows two feet and I don’t feel like shoveling a path to the lawn for my little 3.5 pound Parti Yorkie, I want her to know that she can just “pee on the grass!”

Keep DAWN dishsoap on hand. Once a day, allow them to wander outside in a pen to allow the time for the fake "grass" to soak in the cleaner and then jet-clean with heavy jet-faucet flow.Be careful, the makeup causes smells to stick around. Definitely clean daily.Also, puppies like to rip it apart. Good luck with that.

We got this as recommended by the breeder we got our dog from. We stick the disposable pee pads underneath to prevent a mess. At first, it was great. We keep it in the crate at night and out during the day when I cant take him out as often due to work. The puppy peed on it immediately from day one, but he will not poop on it. That was fine by me, we have hard wood floors so I don't mind the grass staying clean from poop. However it's now been about a week and a half and the smell is horrible. Also, he likes to sleep on it. I went to get him out of the crate this morning and he was soaked in pee from laying on the grass. And I've noticed his paws being colored yellow at the bottom so I had to bathe him today. The idea is great, but the smell and pee sitting atop the grass is almost more trouble than it's worth. Washable pee pads would probably be better.