Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I really, really wanted to like this. We’re struggling with our puppy (we live on the 25th floor and can take 15 minutes to get down to a patch of grass), and I so wanted this to be a solution for us. First: the grass is cheap and falls apart easily. It shed quite a bit of grass right as we took it out of the box. The mat is woven, and weave was even falling apart (entire strings came off). If your puppy is like mine - she loves strings! - she’ll quickly learn that it’s fun to pull apart. Not safe: It did “work”, though - my puppy went right up to it and peed on it. We put a puppy pad in the tray to make clean up easier. But then she started digging and biting at the grass. Since it isn’t attached in any way, she pulled it right up and started taking chunks off of it. It’s so poorly constructed that it quickly fell apart. Little pieces of grass were everywhere in seconds. My puppy ripped off large chunks (again, the weave was so loose she could easily do this) and was about to ingest large clumps of fake grass! We knew we had to watch her like a hawk anytime she was around it. I even tried taping the grass on, clipping the grass on, etc. Nothing kept it in place. Big bummer that she couldn’t use it safely without constant supervision. The smell: But we figured since we keep her in a crate while she’s not totally supervised, we could still make it work when we let her out to “go”. But guys....the smell. It starts out like “am I imagining it?” but then it became unbearable. If you keep it outside/near a window/in the sun it will get gnarly even faster. Imagine a public latrine or a porta-potty on a hot day. Then imagine that smell confined to the small space of your apartment. And magnify it for every window you have. We washed it on the *second* day we got it because we couldn’t take the smell. Washing is easy, but time consuming. The only way to get rid of the smell is bleach. You have to soak it in a tub with bleach for a few hours to get rid of the smell. This will also cause large amounts of grass to come loose. It takes another few hours, yes hours, to dry. Then you have to clean the grass out of your tub. You have to do this everyday to keep the smell at bay. We couldn’t even keep it up for one week before the grass went in the trash. I’m giving it one star for the tray it comes with. We’re still using that to put our puppy pads in. Everything else is trash!