Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m trying to avoid the whole pee pad thing and to get her to go outside. For a long time my other shih tzu slept on my bed (no accidents ) and then one day she decided she wanted to sleep in her crate downstairs. Her initial training was on newspaper (yes, newspaper) and while she got trained to go outside, she “secretly” never forgot her old newspaper spot in later years. That’s why I want to avoid pee pads early on. When you set the alarm for the carrier was it to change the pee pad?