Lori, I'm glad to hear your girl is doing so well! Wish I could report the same for my puppy.
I am absolutely at my wits end with Max. Take today for example. He has peed four times in his crate. At no point was he in there for more than an hour and was taken out to potty right before being put in the crate. I'm doing everything "they" say to do but it's not working. Max just goes whenever, and wherever, he wants. It sounds terrible to admit it but I'm losing my affection for him.
I tried the belly band but he kept getting it off. He figured out how to rub along the side of the couch and get the band to slip farther and farther down his hips until he could wiggle out of it.
My last thing to try is blocking him in our only bathroom with tile (the other two have carpet), putting a pee pad down and his crate in there. I've done that a few times during the day when we've been gone for several hours and he's done well with going on the pad. I really didn't want to rely on pads permanantly because I wanted him going outside 100% of the time but I don't know what else to do. I don't have the time to bathe him every time he pees all over himself in the crate.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I know others have experienced very difficult housebreaking issues. Please give me some ideas to try!