Lylli Pilly Puppy Training Pads
Lylli Pilly is an Australian-market brand of household pet consumables, sold through pet shops and supermarkets rather than through a site of its own. The name plays on the lilly pilly, an Australian native tree. We stock one product from the range: the Lylli Pad, a 60 x 60cm disposable absorbent training pad, fifty to a box.
How many pads a puppy actually goes through
This is the number most people get wrong on the first order. An eight to ten week old puppy urinates roughly every one to two hours while awake, so in the first fortnight you are changing a pad three to five times a day even if the puppy is accurate. Fifty pads is about a fortnight at that rate. By four to five months the interval stretches out and two or three changes a day is normal, so a box lasts closer to three or four weeks. Budget two boxes for the first month, then one a month after that, and expect it to taper off as outdoor training takes over.
Where to put the pad, and how to move it
Pick one spot and leave it there. Dogs learn toileting by location as much as by surface, so a pad that moves around the room teaches nothing. Put it well away from the bed and the food bowls — no dog will happily toilet next to where it eats and sleeps — and somewhere the puppy can reach without going through a closed door. Hard floor is better than carpet, so anything that gets past the pad is easy to clean up.
Once the habit is reliable, and only then, start moving the pad towards the back door in steps of half a metre or so every few days. If accidents start again you have moved too fast; go back to the last position that worked and wait a week. At 60cm square the Lylli Pad gives a dog room to circle before it squats, which is where smaller 45 x 60cm pads fail — the dog turns, ends up half off the pad, and you clean the floor instead.
Why a SAP core beats fluff pulp
Cheap pads are mostly fluff pulp: shredded paper fibre that holds liquid between the fibres the way a paper towel does. It works, but the liquid stays liquid. Press on it and it comes back out, which is exactly what happens when a dog stands on the pad, and then the wet paws go across your floor.
A super-absorbent polymer core works differently. The SAP granules bind liquid chemically into a gel that does not release under pressure, so the top sheet dries off within a minute or two and stays dry. That is the difference you notice day to day: no tracking, and no puddle at the edge when the pad is disturbed. The Lylli Pad uses a Japanese SAP core over a waterproof polyethylene liner, with an activated charcoal layer for odour, and self-adhesive stickers under each corner so the pad cannot slide or bunch.
Disposable or washable?
Disposables win on convenience and on hygiene during illness or post-surgery recovery, when you want the mess gone rather than in the washing machine. They cost more over time and they go to landfill.
Washable pads — we stock the Simple Solution Washable Training & Travel Pads — pay for themselves over a few months and suit a long-term situation such as an incontinent senior dog or an indoor cat's litter area. They only work if you will genuinely put a soiled pad through the wash, and a determined chewer will destroy fabric faster than plastic-backed disposables. Many households run both: disposables through the intensive training weeks, washables afterwards.
When to stop using pads
Pads are a bridge, not a destination. If your long-term plan is a dog that toilets outside, keep pad training short — a few weeks of it teaches a puppy that indoor surfaces are acceptable, and past a couple of months that lesson is harder to unpick than simply taking the puppy out every hour from the start. The signal to stop is a week without an indoor accident while you are supervising: pull the pad, keep taking the dog out to the same outdoor spot on the same schedule, and accept a small relapse in the first few days.
Keep pads on hand after that for illness, for storm nights, for the first week in a new house and for a dog on crate rest. Those are the situations they genuinely earn their place.
