How do i keep my dog from tearing up her training pads?

Answer 1

I hate to tell yout his, but training pads are the worst things you can use to teach a dog to be potty trained. You're essentially leading her to believe that potty-ing in the house is acceptable. I recommend crate training or more frequent trips outside until she gets the hang of it. If you need more info on crate training, try googling it or ask your local vet. Good luck! :o)

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/chP70

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

I would reccommend training pad holders.

See these pad holders at: http://www.wiggle-n-waggle.com/servlet/the-379/Clean-Go-Pet-Puppy/Detail

These Training pad holders keep the pads securely in place in order to discourage digging/chewing. They hold any pad 22"L x 23"W or larger. I always reccomend these pads by the same company: http://www.wiggle-n-waggle.com/servlet/the-147/Clean-Go-Pet-Puppy/Detail

If your dog is chewing the pads (or chewing anything else) then I always reccomend Grannicks Bitter Apple Spray : http://www.wiggle-n-waggle.com/servlet/the-155/Grannicks-Bitter-Apple-16/Detail

But I really think that you should be fine if you just keep your pads in the puppy pad holder. This will also eliminate the messes created when dogs pee half-on half-off the pad, as your dog will be encouraged to be completely on the pad before eliminating.

I do not agree with people who say that you should not train your dog to training pads. It is not always possible for people to be home all day to let their dogs out. My dog has been using training pads since she was little, and she has not had an accident since she was about 3 months old. I believe that training a dog to a pad is as simple as training a cat to a litter box if you have the right supplies and know-how!

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Don't use training pads. Teach the dog to go outside. Allowing it to mess in the house (even on training pads) just slows the housebreaking process (IMO) and is disgusting. Especially if she's dragging them around and tearing them up.

Take her outside! Get on a feeding, outside, playtime, and nap routine. It will be much easier to housebreak that way.

Answer 5

You can try spraying them with some of the spray that is supposed to keep your animals off of the furniture and stuff, but then you might get the adverse effect of them not using them for bathrrom reasons as well. I had the same issue with one of my dogs, and it was actually the smell of the pads that attracted her to them. I eventually had to just give up and leash train her to go outside and crate train her when I was not home. I wish you the best of luck.

Answer 6

Have you tryed a spray bottle of water. Spray it at dog when it is doing something you don't want it to.