Mans Best Friend
We have all heard of dogs being called a man’s best friend. This is because if you treat a dog well, he will be your best friend forever.
When we first got our dog, it was mainly for the kids. The kids wanted a puppy, so we got the life long puppy, the Chihuahua. This little dark haired white spotted puppy was going to be the family “puppy” forever. The kids quickly named him “Jacob” aka Jake after a guy in the Twilight movies.
So after buying Jacob and making him our puppy, we ran into a few problems. Jacob needed a place to sleep and a place to use the potty when everyone was a way at school and work. So we invested in a Dog Pedic Sleep System and purchased him a Potty Patch.
Our puppy loved to sleep with in our blankets, so getting him to use the Dog Pedic was going to be a challenge. Well it turned out my son had a brilliant idea. He took the blanket Jacob loved to sleep in and laid it on the Dog Pedic. About a month later, Jacob now uses the Dog Pedic without any problem, just say bed time and off he goes.
The potty training/potty problem solution was to buy the Potty Patch. You see it all the time online and on television and we thought this could be our solution. So we decided to get the larger of the potty patches and man I glad we did. We ended up cutting the carpet/grass in half and making to potty patches.
The first potty patch is used on our balcony shoved away in a corner. We go outside and sit Jacob follows and usually without any problems will use the potty patch. We put the other half down by the main doorway; he goes down there and uses that when no one is home. It took about a month to train our Jacob to use the potty patch, but we are glad that we do not have messes on the carpet anymore.
Clean up is easy, we use the scooper to clean up his poop and we take them out in the driveway and spray them with water once a week to remove the urine. We learned not to do this in the yard because it was killing our grass.
