Indoor potty training for small dogs

Ok, so as you all know I have 2 very small dogs and one small dog; and what some don't know is that I am handicap. When I got Kotton I was living in a 2nd floor apartment and she was so tiny I was afraid she would freeze (I still worry) so I litter trained her; well that worked until a cat visited and used her litter box and now she refuses to even look at one. So I use wee pads for her and have since she was 6 months old. When I got Kash and Koko I knew I would have issues because Kotton was trained indoor so they were going to see indoor potty getting rewarded (Kotton does this cute little dance if you say "Yay Kotton!") so I decided to indoor train them as well.

I don't ONLY use wee pads, they do go outside and they will potty as soon as they get out. Koko and Kotton don't really present a problem with this (I now live in a downstairs apartment, in the basement) but Kash has gotten bigger and therefore has bigger potties (I can't think of how else to phrase that) but I can't punish her for going inside when the other girls do.

So long story longer Do you indoor train your small dogs? Have you gotten a larger dog at the same time? If so how did you handle it?

 

My dogs because of their size, have to potty a lot which I'm sure your all to familiar with, do both. I'm disable myself but I do try to get them outside as much as possible. Liter training didn't work from day one. I did use wee pads also and from some reason, whenever they spotted a plastic bag on the floor, it became a wee pad also, don't know, don't ask. LOL. I finally relied on the tried but true, newspaper. A little harder to clean up, but it works for us.

 

Try putting cardboard under the newspaper, or put the wee pads under the newspaper to work it in there instead of paper. I had to ease Kotton into wee pads because she was used to newspaper, which is what I went to after litter, and that is how I did it with her. The other two have always been really good about it. They do go out often, but there is no way I could go up the stairs as many times as they would want!