Chewing on Pee Pad

Coco has picked up a nasty habit of chewing on her pee pad. In the beginning she'd just move it around in her pen. Now she has realized that she can chew on it and send all of the stuffing (which would soak up her pee) flying all over the place. The past two days I've come home from work only to see her covered completely in white stuffing and bits and pieces of the pee pad everywhere.

It was so hard to try to comb out all of the stuffing from her fur (some had even lodged itself into the fur on her face) that she got an impromptu bath to help get rid of all the pee pad remnants.

Since we don't want her to rip up her pee pad everyday, thereby not giving herself a place to pee when we aren't home we started to hunt for alternative solutions. We gave bitter apple a try and, surprise, surprise, it worked. The bitter apple has proven an effective deterent if sprayed on both sides of the pee pad. The first time I used it I only put it on the top side of the pee pad. Coco quickly realized that only one side of the pee pad tasted awful and proceeded to just tear up the back side of the pee pad (sans bitter apple.) The next time we used it we got smarter and put bitter apple on both sides of the pee pad. Presto. Ming came home today from lunch and saw the pee pad was still in tact. Coco didn't have any stuffing on her and she still had a place to pee. Hallelujah! I am forever indebted to the guy who invented this stuff.