Bethshaya

We trained our tiny Pom on Puppy pads. She never misses and it is easy to clean up. We don't have to go outside in the snow and rain either.

This entailed a week of us putting her on the pad and kept sayng "go pottie, go pottie". When she tried to get off the pad, we put her back on until she went, and then we praised her and made a big deal and let her go off and do what she wanted. Rinse, repeat. By the time the week ended, she was running to go to the pad when she had to go, we praised and sang the "good pottie song" and she was trained. Never had a problem since.

The fun thing about our little Pom is that everytime she was "good" on the pottie pad, we made a big deal about it and sang a silly song for her. Two years later, she still expects the "Good Pottie" song and will spin in circles and jump all around after she does it to make sure to get our attention and say "I did it!".

Always use the harness leash. Small dogs have a soft, flexible trachea, and because of that, pulling on a collar around the neck could crush their throats and cause problems. The bigger dogs, their trachea is harder cartlidge so not a problem.

Also, make sure you put a sweater on the lil pups when going outside in the winter. Because of their small size, they don't have enough body fat to keep themselves warm. So sweater on if going to be outside for a bit.

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