@aaronrulz I know I thought the same at first. As a city dweller with a small dog, I always used wee pads, (almost everyone here does for small dogs). Like @SimplyJen found, I found Ravasheen potty pads like a month before it came out for public release. Very weird because it's something that should come with cats and dogs. There is the pile of newpapers, but it doesnt function like a place for them to go potty. I was trying ot train them with that the whole month waiting for it's release.
It's annoying because even owning pets in houses, when you ask them to potty, they go right on the porch and you still have to mop it up or step in it accidentally. Even sometimes I has to mop landscape- Like I don't understand how natural ground wouldn't absorb that. So I use the grass pads on natural landscape even in houses in the suburbs. They should fix that. I liked in the sims 1, there was a fire hydrate, and you just click it to tell them to go, and they just go. I thought that was a sweet touch, because, when you live in the city, dogs always naturally go on fire hydrants because all the other dogs do and they want to cover they scent with theirs for innate doggy territorial instincts.
@Caerfinon I had that mod, but never sent my dog out without me. I truly love all of Little Miss Sam's mods, but somehow they all dont really work with my computer anymore. Some updates broke them and I dont know which file to take out.
@NRowe apartments with a terrace are the best. I usually use the grass pad from RSVN there and asking them to go on the pad in that sense always works.