Porch Potty Small - Self-Draining Dog Potty Tray with Premium Synthetic Grass Pads - Dog Grass Pad with Tray - Puppy Pee Pads Washable - 4x2 ft

UPDATE: We found the artificial grass needed to be replaced a couple of times per because it wore (smelled) out even with cleaning.After investigating real grass I decided our weather and the need to replace it fairly often ruled it out as the best option. Quite by accident I hit on the idea of using Rubberific Rubber Mulch. The mulch is from recycled tires. It is soft, bouncy, non-water absorbing, gives a bit when you walk on it and best of all you can hose it down with water and even soap (I use a dilution of vinegar and water every once in while. The material is used for children's playgrounds as well as for garden mulch. One of the nice things is that it does move around a little so my dog can find "purchase" for her feet making her business easier.ORIGINAL REVIEW I am leading off with my interpretation of the wildly disparate ratings on different potty solutions for dogs. I think that all potty options are totally dog-owner dependent. They are like leashes. You have to keep trying until you find one that works for you. Problem is, leashes are not as expensive as dog potties. Before the Porch Potty, I had one that was expensive, one that was cheap and one I made with heavy cardboard and an old rug pad. Because we don't have close neighbors and it was frozen in the winter, the cardboard one actually worked very well. When spring came I had to make a decision whether or not to replace the cardboard box. My dog and I agree that the Porch Potty works for us. It took a little bit of effort to move from the beloved frozen card-board box to the Porch Potty but the transition was made. I left both in place and gradually my dog began to use the Porch Potty. I was helped along but a few well-timed snow storms that covered both the box and the Porch Potty but even without that she would have made the transition. As she increased the frequency of using it, I (gingerly) removed the frozen cardboard box.I think her initial reticence to use the Porch Potty is that it flexes. Dogs go on hard ground. The ground does not flex. This does. There is also a cant toward the drain. Because of the slight flex, if your dog faces out to do its business it is possible that the floor of the potty will flex enough to cause balance problems. For my dog it caused a bit of consternation and made it harder for her to do her serious business. She has gotten used to the flex pretty well but it is still hard to get her to do the big business but she is happy, happy to use it for her regular business. I would recommend putting two together for larger dogs. My dog is a medium size and it is a bit of a challenge for her to march around as much as she would like. Her strategy is to march around the outside of the box and then hop in. That may be important when you are considering placement size.I like how easy it is to keep clean. The drain hose is just great. I don't imagine the catch basin would be perfect but if you could not use the drain hose it would be a reasonable solution. I did not get the training grass, largely because of the weather but also because I wanted her to learn to use the box in less than her picky-perfect way. The artificial grass is quite nice although really not exactly like grass as some have said. In a perfect world it would cost less to make a product like this. In the real world, this is a well made, attractive potty that seems like it will last a good long while. Honestly, I was surprised that she used it and I was surprised at how easy it is to maintain. Three cheers for Porch Potty!

The media could not be loaded. We recently bought this after having a PetSafe Pet Loo for years on our patio. We have a very small patio and even spraying it every few days with odor eliminator, we could still smell the urine unless we rinsed it with water daily. That meant emptying the urine collector pan frequently and we got tired of the tiny spills we often had doing that. We switched to the Porch Potty and love having a flushable dog toilet. Ours is next to a hose, so it's easy for us to spray it off. Watering can works great as well.If you're willing to give it a quick rinse with water daily and have a place to direct the urine drainage tube, this is ideal. For us, it is worth the extra cost to not have to empty the urine collector pan again. But if you're not going to rinse it often, the Pet Loo may be a better option since its collection tray design is more angled and allows for better drainage into the urine collector pan.PetSafe Pet Loo-Less expensive and great value for the money-Collection tray has a sharper downward angle allowing complete urine drainage-Sturdy & durable enough to last several years on a covered patio, but not as sturdy as Porch Potty-Urine collector pan is not large making it less practical to rinse daily with water. To use a larger pan, you'd need cut the plastic underneath.-Lighter and easier to move around than Porch Potty-We found we had the least mess when we lined the urine pan with a small trash bag and filedl it 2/3 full of kitty litter. Changing it is as easy as tying the bag. But if you forget and it overflows, it becomes even worse when you slide out the pan and the mess goes everywhere.-Unless we used kitty litter, we often had some spillage when sliding out the urine pan regardless of how full it was.Porch Potty-Heavier and appears more durable than Pet Loo. If you're planning to use this in uncovered area, this is a better choice than Pet Loo.-Nicer appearance than Pet Loo with the wicker sides-As shown in the video, the collection tray has a minimal angle, so some urine will remain in the tray and stink unless rinsed daily with water.-The drainage tube is slightly larger than 1/4" width, and we needed a smaller one to fit through an opening in our mosquito screen. Replacing the drain attachment and tube was an easy and inexpensive fix at the hardware store.-Ideal if you have a place to direct the tube drainage and plan to rinse daily. You'll still need to spray it with odor spray as well.

The porch potty is a huge quality of life improvement over the fake grass we were using on our apartment balcony for our Aussie puppy. It’s so much more sanitary than the faux grass or pee pads that it was worth the price. It’s great but it’s not perfect, it’s a small hassle to clean the grass on it, unless it’s somewhere it will get rained on. It does not come with a basin for underneath, you have to buy that separately. Overall a good solution if you live in a high rise with a dog who tells you they have to pee at the last possible second.