Do Housebreaking Pads Work When Potty Training Your Puppy?

By Howard Young Feb 10, 2008

We’ve had mixed results using housebreaking pads for Dachshunds. They worked very well for Chloe, but Odie and Molly thought the pads were toys and promptly chewed them up.

The best thing to do is to tape the pads down with masking tape. This helps prevent your Dacshund from playing with the pads.

The best masking tape is the “blue painter’s” masking tape that you can buy at Home Depot or some other hardware/paint store.

The two-inch wide painter’s tape holds securely holds down the pad. With Chloe, all we needed to do was tape down the corners. With the other two, we had to tape down all four sides of the pad.

Once your Dachshund figures out that it should pee on the pad, you start moving the pad closer to the door so that it knows to go to the door to pee outside.

Eventually your dog (and you) will associate going to the door as an act of asking to go “potty.” Usually the hardest part is you watching for the dog to ask to go out. this process of potty training your puppy may take several months, so during the early stages you need to keep an eye on your puppy otherwise he will go to the door and then go on the carpet if you’re not watching.

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