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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- Get on a schedule. Immediately after eating, drinking, sleeping (including naps), and play sessions take her out until she pees. If she hasn’t peed, go in and back out again five minutes later.
- Use a crate only big enough for her to turn around in. Naps are in the crate only. They don’t like to pee where they sleep, but will if the space is big enough that they can pee on one side.
- Use the pen only after she’s peed. 
- Some people tether puppies to their side so they’re constantly supervised. That way you may be able to see cues you’re not noticing now. Also a reminder to take them out more often when they’re literally always next to you.[/quote]

I guess my issue is that I don't understand how/when to transition to more freedom.

Like she will go a week with no accidents and then we start letting her nap in her pen or roam the kitchen and then bam, accident.

I guess I just need to accept that this is not a linear process.

In reference to what someone else said, I will say I feel deceived by this notion of "substrate preference" that I read all about. Our dog pees/poops on grass 95% of the time but the other times, she seems unconcerned if it is a flat hard surface, a blanket/bed etc. She has 1-2 accidents a week at this point and we super scrub with deodorizing cleaners to ensure she isn't associating one place with pee spots. But the accidents keep happening at random. [/quote]

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