Don't ever punish her for accidents, unless you catch her in the act. She will only learn to hide it from you. We went through this for a long time with my grandfather's dog, his mentality seemed to be "if it does something wrong, hit it with a stick. If it does something right, hit it with a stick" As soon as we found this out we took the dog away from him, but the issues were well and truly in place already, and took years worth of rehabilitation. He's a great little dog now though
Be super vigilant, you will learn to read the signs. It makes your life easier if when she's not supervised, she's outside (don't leave her outside all night though, that's mean
), that way she's toileting in the right area already, and less messes for you to clean up.
When you praise her for going outside, start low key, just a soft "good girl" as soon as she starts going, when she's finishing her wee, ramp it right up to become the most amazing thing EVER! You want her to know she's done the right thing, but you don't want to distract her from the task at hand by being too exuberant at first.
I'd strongly suggest a toilet command, for example, mine all know "go toilets" means either wee (if they're already outside); or get up, go outside and go wee.
It makes life soooooo much easier when it's freezing and/or pouring with rain, toileting before bedtimes means a 2 minute trip outside as opposed to waiting around for 10 minutes until she decides she wants to go.
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Oh, forgot to add. If you catch her in the act, just a "no" will do, take her straight outside and praise like crazy if she goes while outside (see above note about starting softly though)
She may not start to urinate immediately when you take outside after interrupting her, that's fine, just be aware that she does need to wee and watch her extra closely, take her out every 5-10 minutes until she goes. Remember, every time you avoid an accident is one step closer to being toilet-trained
Also, don't expect miracles. I'm guilty of this, because our pup has slotted in so well and has picked up most of the house rules pretty well, I tend to forget she's a puppy with a tiny puppy bladder, and can't be left inside for 3 hours without having to go wee-wees. My point is, even when she is toilet trained, she will still be a pup and won't have the control of an older dog.
Also, I'm really sorry if my rambling didn't make any sense, I only got 3 hours sleep today because my stupid family came over to my house and were playing with jackhammers or something (that's what it sounded like anyway)