Artificial Grass Girl

No more "accidents" in our house with the Purchase Green Potty Pad!

See this little princess? Yes, she truly is a princess (haha!) Well, as cute as she is, she has a genetic knee problem called patellar luxation. This condition can be very painful and has also allowed for another more painful condition to set into her little knees…arthritis! Some days she is fine, and running around like a puppy…then others she is limping around like a little old woman.

On those painful days, it is hard to get her out of the bed, much less outside for a walk. After more accidents than usual as her condition progressively got worse, I decided to contact Purchase Green. This company makes the neatest artificial grass “indoor puppy potties.” These are sooo neat, and real looking. Honestly, it’s the most realistic fake grass I have ever seen. It even has the brown under the green blades that looks like dead grass. What is even cooler is it feels like real grass!! When we got this in my little man and Layla, the princess, immediately started rolling all over it and just had so much fun. After informing little man that this would be Layla’s toilet he backed off of it a bit (couldn’t have him rolling in it after-now could we?).

The Purchase Green potty is now set up in our bedroom where Layla spends 90% of her time, and has proven to be very simple to care for. We simply keep a puppy pad underneath the artificial sod, and scoop the “accidents” off of it. We change the puppy pad when it becomes soiled and spray the grass down with a mixture of disinfectant and water. I have found that this does not have an odor, and it is much more effective than any other kind of “house breaking” we have tried. She simply cannot get up and go outside all the time…and we adore her, so sometimes we have to make sacrifices.

I urge you to check their site out if you have a stubborn puppy that just will not wait to go out, if you work long hours and cannot get home to walk you furbaby, if you live in a city and have no place to walk your dog, or if you have a crippled furbaby like me!! Purchase Green offers the coolest way to indoor potty train your baby at a very affordable price!!

Be sure to check out our first Puppy Potty Pad blog review at www.thenursemommy.com .

We basically fell into the pet potty pad business.  We were receiving frequent requests for tiny patches of turf.  We finally figured out that most of these requests were coming from pet owners living in apartments or condominiums, or they had a situation in which they needed to leave their pet inside their homes for an extended period of time.  One of our partners also lives in a condo and owns 2 small chihuahuas.  So he decided to take a remnant piece of artificial grass home and try it out.  He had been using the disposable pet pads on his balcony, but was tiring of looking at their mess.  Also, there were not completely potty trained yet and was hoping the turf would somehow help.

He placed the artificial grass on top of the disposable pad.  And to our amazement, the two dogs took right to the turf!  It's as if they have some instinct to do their thing on grass, even if its synthetic grass.  Who knew?  What is it about grass that draws the dogs to it?  I don't have the answer, but we have had several customers send  us glowing reviews of our pet potty pads say that as soon as they put the pad in front of the dog, it did its deed immediately.  Go figure.

From there we did some research and found out that we were not the only ones who have figured this out.  There are several varieties of artificial grass pet potties.  Some come with trays and other contraptions.  We are probably the simplest, and therefore, the cheapest option out there.  We found the most common sizes of disposable pet pads and cut the artificial grass to fit on top of them. 

Another benefit of our potty pad is that the disposable pet pad beneath the turf lasts for up to 2 weeks. This can probably be attributed to the fact that we sell high end artificial turf, not the stuff that you can buy at the big box stores.  Our ultra-dense artificial grass has drainage holes in the backing, is treated with an anti-bacterial solution, and easily cleaned off with a hose.