I use these under the litter in the cat litter boxes. We use pine pellets, and while the absorbancy is great, it still leaks to the bottom of the box sometimes. This prevents it from getting to the plastic layer. I change these once a week and they are plenty absorbent.

I ordered a pack of these over a year ago and didn't feel like it was important to leave a review, but also because it took me almost a year to use the package I had purchased!
My little shih tzu is housebroken, but I always leave out pee pads just in case I am in expectantly working late.
It's not fair to my pup to make her hold it on those days that I didn't know ahead of time that I was going to have to stay at work for a couple of extra hours and I refuse to put her in a crate when I'm not home!
Also, living in the Midwest, winters get cold and it can be hard on a little dogs feet to be out in the freezing cold and sorry, I refuse to put little boots on a dog! A winter sweater, but no boots!
So, anyway, a year ago I ordered these, it took a long time to use the whole bag, but once I did, I was out at one of the larger home improvement stores and just grabbed a large bag of their pads and started using them. Pee pads are all the same right?

Well actually no, they are not at all the same!
With the brand that I purchased, I'd put them down and if I came home and saw that my dog had used one, when I'd go to pick it up to dispose of it, there is always always a wet spot on the floor!
My dog is about 8lbs, she is incapable of peeing out more than possibly 1/16th of a cup of urine when she needs to go and I'm being generous in the amount of urine that she would possibly go at one time, yet these pee pads that I purchased from the home improvement store ( that were 3 dollars more than this bag of glad brand bags mind you) have not even been able to hold that amount of urine and I always need to mop the floor under the pad once I get home on top of having to toss out the pad!

On top of the disappointing performance of the store brand for my dog, I have now rescued a lion head bunny. Since adopting her, I have discovered that you cannot put normal rabbit bedding down in her cage, anything you leave is going to stick to their long hair!
I was at a lose as to what to do until another lion head owner suggested that I use pee pads to line my bunnies cage! An ingenious suggestion that has kept my bunny's hair free of bedding debris, but once again, lifting out the pee pads is a disgusting mess!
They wind up being soaked with urine and wet underneath the pee pads as well!
So tonight I threw in the towel on this other brand of pee pads and I just placed an order for another bag of the glad pee pads!
They work incredibly well, not once did urine ever soak through the pad and onto the floor when using for my dog, I'm just hoping they work just as well in my rabbits cage!
I will keep you all posted if they do or not, but as far as using for my pup, they are the most absorbent pads that I have ever used and will continue to order these and only these from now on!
I should known that since they are made by glad, they were going to work better than any others!

No one paid me or gave me any promotional incentive to give this review, this is my honest opinion and I cannot recommend these any more highly than what I have said already!
No, pee pads are not all the same and the expensive ones that come from reputable stores do not work better than these!
Trust the Glad brand pads! They work better than any brand out there!

It still leaks but not as much as cheaper brand. It does help with urine Odors as well. I'll keep using this one. I do wish it came in a 25 X 25. My dog likes to pee and poo 💩 on the edges. 🤦"â'€ï¸

I have bought charcoal pads before and never had a problem, but I am noticing a trend with my goofy dog peeing next to this pad in particular. She is a professional pad pee-er, and I have never had this problem until I recently cracked open a box of these pads. There have been occasions where she missed a pad or was half off the pad and because of that I keep heavy duty plastic sheeting on the floor to lay her pads on (I do not care what the box says, all pads either leak or some reaction between pee and the material the pads are made of causes condensation on the bottom of the pad that wets the floor, even when they pee square on).
Since I have been using these charcoal pads, she pees off the pad at least 25% of the time. I work from home and her potty place is adjacent to my workstation so I can see when she goes. I don't let the pad get soaked with multiple pees, I usually pick up after a 2nd unless she has a big 1st pee on the pad, then I pick it up after the 1st. But even if I lay down new fresh pads (always 2 side by side) she still pees off too often. I spared you a picture of pee on my floor, and I included a picture of Baby Luv as dog tax. In this picture I am asking her to please pee on the pad, not next to the pad.

I really like these pads bcs they're black, and u can't see the nasty pee stains. I've been buying these for months, and when I bought them a 2nd time, they changed/redesigned the pads, and I thought it was better than ever! However I lowered a star bcs I recently bought them again, and they changed them again. Now they seem so thin and flimsy, I don't like what they did when they folded the sides in even more than before which I thought wa speeded too before! As I put these ontop of a tray so if the dogs pee off it, it gets absorbed or is on the tray(which they usually don't but some accidents happen) and the folded sides just bring it in, and stays folded making it more likely for that to happen unless I really fold it back for a minute or so. I also think the ones I used to buy would hold more pee, as these seep through a little bit but I just wipe it down, didn't have that problem before. Stop changing the pads and leave them alone. You keep changing the recipe it will be a different one, and more so less appealing. They were great as is. As this folded in side is rlly getting on my nerves! The top is the newer version and bottom is older, u can even see more padding on the older version. You can also see how the older version just sticks up better and the new won't stay up and keeps folding down. The only reason the other side of the newer version is staying up is bcs I have it pinned to the wood.