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5 "Untrainable" Shelter Dogs That Used This Pad Correctly on Day One
What these dogs taught me about why house training fails—and how to fix it.
Sarah Mitchell
Former Shelter Director
14 years, 4,200+ dogs · "I got tired of watching good dogs lose their homes over a problem that shouldn't exist."
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Cooper — Two years of accidents. Fixed on day one.
His mom came in looking like she hadn't slept in a week.
"We've tried everything," she said. "Different pads, the attractant spray, taking him every two hours. He walks right up to it, sniffs it, and goes six inches to the left. Every single time. We don't know what we're doing wrong."
I'd seen this a hundred times. The problem wasn't Cooper, and it wasn't them. Standard pads don't actually smell like anything to a dog. There's no signal telling him that's where he's supposed to go. He wasn't ignoring the pad — he was looking for a cue that wasn't there.
I put down one of our pads. He sniffed it, circled once, and used it.
They haven't had an accident since.
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Sadie — No training, no history. Figured it out instantly.
Marcus came in alone. His wife had stayed home with the kids.
"We adopted her six months ago," he said. "She was a stray — no history, no training, nothing. We knew it'd take time. But we're still having accidents every single day and we're just... we're exhausted. I feel guilty being frustrated because of what she's been through. But I don't know how much longer we can do this."
With a dog like Sadie, you're starting from zero. But that's actually fine, because pheromones aren't learned behavior. They're instinct. Every dog is born knowing what that scent means. You don't have to teach it.
I put the pad down in their house that afternoon.
Sadie used it the first time she walked over to it.
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Milo & Otis — Her landlord's final warning. Fixed the same week.
Rachel wasn't there to adopt. She was there to give her dogs back.
She lived on the fifth floor, worked nine to five, couldn't get home at lunch. "By the time I get back, there's already two puddles by the door," she told me. "I've tried pads. They just ignore them completely. They're like furniture to them. I don't know what else to do and my landlord is done warning me."
She wasn't wrong about the pads. To their noses, a disposable pad is just a thing on the floor. There's nothing about it that says bathroom. I gave her one of ours and told her to put it right where the accidents kept happening — right by the door.
She texted me four days later. They'd both used it every time she got home.
She kept her apartment. She kept her dogs.
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Max — Perfect for ten years. Then his body changed.
Linda called before she came in. "He's ten years old," she said. "Perfect for ten years, not a single accident. And now it's happening every night. He looks so confused after. Like he doesn't understand what happened."
When she came in she had a grocery bag full of different pads she'd tried. "I'm going through almost a hundred dollars a month," she told me. "And they still leak through."
Bladder control weakens as dogs age — it's just biology, nothing anyone did wrong. But what I've seen is that a strong pheromone signal can do a lot of what a weakened bladder can't anymore. It gives the dog a reason to find the pad before it's too late.
She put ours down that evening, in the spot Max kept having accidents.
He used it on his own. The accidents stopped.
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#5 The only thing these dogs had in common was the pad that worked.
Cooper's family had tried every pad on Amazon. Rachel's dogs treated them like furniture. Sadie had never been trained a day in her life. Max had been perfect for ten years until his body started failing him.
Different situations. Different dogs. Same result — day one.
Here's why. Dogs don't decide where to go based on what you show them. They decide based on what they smell. In the wild, dogs mark a spot once and return to it forever — because the scent tells them that's the place. Standard disposable pads don't have that scent. There's nothing in them that registers as a bathroom to a dog's nose. So when your dog misses the pad, walks past it, or ignores it completely — they're not being stubborn. They're just not getting a signal.
Our pad has pheromone technology built into the fabric — the same compound dogs naturally use to mark a bathroom spot. The moment they smell it, something clicks. It's not training. It's just giving their nose something to actually respond to.
That's why it works on the first day. Not because dogs suddenly got smarter, but because they finally got the information they were looking for.
If your dog has been missing the pad or ignoring it entirely, it's probably not a training problem.
Try it for 90 days. If it doesn't work, send it back — even after it's been washed.
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Melissa H. Pruitt
Using these at night for our older girl. Makes everything easier in the mornings.
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Debbie Lorne
LOVE mine!!! My dogs do too 😂
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Jacob Minter
I use one in the car when we go on long drives. Just makes me feel better having it there.
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Tasha Egbert
I ordered 6.
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Kari Amoah
Love mine!!
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Renee Porter
My puppy figured it out pretty quick. I keep one by the patio door for rainy days.
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Cindy Robles
My dog refuses to pee outside when it's cold so these saved
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