Pee pads for dogs?

[Bernadine]

Can you use these for male dogs?  How hard would it be to train a 5 yo?  Manny is still peeing in the house, after ruling out a UTI and kidney stones, and having him on prescription food.

[VeryViolet]

You can but honestly I wouldn't. Training them to pee on the pad is still them peeing in the house and it isn't easy to then get them to go outside. Can you go back to the basics of housebreaking (tether him to you when you are home, take him out every hour or two, etc.) and crate the dog in a small crate (they should be able to turn around but that is about it) when you aren't home? If it is marking they also sell these bands that wrap around them so they basically pee on themselves.

ETA It is probably harder to train a 5yo because they have years of bad habits but it isn't impossible. 

[Bernadine]

We've tried housebreaking him again, and he was fine, but as soon as we let up, he starts again. Maybe twice a week or so?

I'll have to look into the band that goes around the crate. He has peed outside of it (when he's been inside) a few times.

[Alyssa]

We had them for our chihuahuas while at work. We had 2 females and a male. He rarely used it but when he did, you could tell because he made sort of a cursive pattern while he balanced on 3 legs. All three would poop on it.

We got ours at Costco.