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As she builds up learning to hold it and you learn to look for and read her body signals to peeing with the other dogs absent from the room, you can leave her out longer and longer but increase the time back in confinement as she learns to hold it. If she's holding it over an hour in confinement, you can switch her confinement to a larger crate/pen and given her some more free space to move about in while confined with an area to one side where her potty pads are in case she reverts to old ways.

After she is holding her urine for four hours in confinement, you are on your way and can start to allow less time in confinement if you are home but you must always watch her when out and about free in the house for a couple of years. Sorry but that is the way it is now that she has formed this pee-walking habit. She'll have to be watched closely for a long time when out in the house - just a fact of life now. And of course she will have accidents during all of this but don't let that deter you. Just stay patient and know that with her gradual confinement and still-frequent outside visits all during the day when you are home, she will be getting the message, training her brain/bladder and her thinking to what is acceptable and what is not.

Early on in the re-training, when she does pee in the house, don't raise a big fuss at all. You are training her mind and body with everything you do around her during this time so she's looking to you to lead. Getting upset over finding pee inside the house will do a lot of harm and just make her think she should never pee, possibly making it hard to even pee outside. She won't necessarily know they you are just upset WHERE she peed but will just see that peeing upsets you and dogs can remember this outside and get scared to even pee out there. In time, once she's into the new program for months and is fairly successful at it, by then if she pees out in the house by accident, now you can begin to say "uh oh" when she has an accident, whether observed or you happen onto a puddle and she's no where around. Say "uh oh" in your trainer's voice(not mad/upset) if you see her doing it, say "Pee-pee outside" and take her out and leave her for a while to get the association into her head that outside is where she should do it and bring her back in and put her into confinement on your schedule. If you don't see the act but find a puddle, I would get her, bring her to it very matter-of-factly and not in an upset way at all and in your best teacher's calm voice, show it to her and say "uh oh" and then "Pee-pee outside" and take her out and leave her for a while to get the association into her head that outside is where she should have done it. Then back inside/into confinement for however long her present schedule requires. Staying calm and just teaching her through her accidents will, together with teaching her to hold her urine when in confinement, will slowly start to teach her how to hold it in your house and she will eventually transfer that ability and knowledge to how to hold it when she's out in the house, knowing that pretty soon she can count on being taken outside on her schedule. And make no mistake about it, dogs are schedule oriented and begin to know when it's getting to be time to pee, potty, eat, potty play, potty, sleep, potty, walk, potty, play, or train, potty, play games, potty, and watch TV, potty, go to bed, potty. They get schedules and quickly learn to abide by them if you keep to it with great regularity.

After she's holding it 4 hours plus and her confinement is way down, her observed time out in the house way up and she's not having accidents, you are on your way. But, truthfully, with the other dogs in your house and her history, it will likely take about two years of watching, confinement, re-starting the intense confinement/frequent-outside schedule and such for her to get re-trained completely so that she is fully trustworthy but she can do it. I've had hopeless seeming dogs like this that just peed at will anytime and walk-peed but an intense schedule of confinement gradually building up and then back down as she gets control and learns will actually work and she can become clean in the house. But it takes a long time of being diligently and just infinitely patient and staying in teacher/trainer mode the whole time. She's mixed up in her messages about when and where to potty now but after a good re-training program, she will begin to learn what you really want and your pride in her learning this will start to feed her rewards center in her brain and that's what will get her to success - learning what you want and how to please you and then she'll work hard to keep that magic going with you. Dogs truly are happiest when they get our intensely happy feedback and know that we are proud of them.