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How to get my puppy to pee in the middle of the pee pad for training?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Medium (23 - 60lb) | Female | unspayed | 3 months and 4 days old | 30 lbs

My puppy has pee pads to help with potty training but she constantly pees at the very end of it, so I end up having to clean it up everytime anyway. Is there anything I can do to help her pee on the center of it?

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Answered By Mara Howard, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on August 2nd, 2017

The difficulty with pee pads is when dogs have their front feet on it, they think they are good and don't realize their back part isn't on it! You can buy plastic "trays" to put the pads on that has them step up onto it and then they typically are more likely to put all four feet up on it. Good luck!

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