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Confinement is not so the dog can "go" while confined, it's to encourage them to learn to hold their pee/poo. After a period of confinement I would first thing take my dog outside to potty, as the dog had usually held his pee/poo while confined and needed to go.

With yours, you'll need to take her to the area where there are potty pads out in the room and teach her to go there and not allow her to leave that area until she does potty on those pads, then praise/treat and celebrate the "go" on the pads. Once she's done both her businesses on the pads, now she is free to run about and play and eat, drink and do whatever, with you still keeping an eye on her in case she has any further urges or didn't both pee and potty on the pads once out of confinement. You will repeat the confinement for short periods and then taking her out of confinement and to the pads placed in the room to encourage her to use them and then praise/treat, allow some freedom for play and general living, training in obedience, eating/drinking, etc. Back to the pads a few minutes after eating/drinking for her to go again if need be, praise/treat and then back to short confinement to teach her to hold herself until she is free again.

Later, when she's used to only using that area with the potty pads and will want to get to that area to go, you won't have to restrict her as much to just that area. You can allow her out in the room and other parts of the house but watching her all the while she's out and about for evidence of staring, sniffing or excitement prior to needing to "go" potty. If you see that activity, get her and place her on the pads if she doesn't head over to them on her on. Eventually she will begin to go to the pads on her own and that's when you know you are getting through to her.

But at first, after confinement, you must place your dog in the place you want to to go potty. If she doesn't, you can either re-confine for another 15 minutes, then take her out and put her back on the potty pads and if she still doesn't go, confine for another 15 and so forth until she does. Confining a dog just usually helps them learn to hold their urine/feces until they get a chance to go potty in their usual spot, where you put them when removed from confinement. Of course you do cover the surface of the confinement area during training to prevent soiling that area if she can't hold it while still confined. It sends a bit of a mixed message to them, it is true. Some will soil the area they are confined to if the pads cover the whole bottom of it but eventually they get the message not to go where they sleep and relax and to hold it for when removed and taken to their usual potty spot.