Every 4 hours is to long, you need to take her out more often. When you cant watch her all the time keep her leashed to you so she has no accidents. Take her to the door she will be going out to and then say potty and walk out with her leashed to the yard and say potty, repeat every so often till she goes. When she goes praise with excitement, so she knows this is good behavior, then come back in, do not mix play time in. Do this for weeks or ever how long it takes on a schedule. Once your dog starts going to the door praise and open door saying potty, go out with her doing the say steps. do this till she is going thur the motions on her own. My pin is trained to a doggie door. When we are traveling or at some other place I still take my dog out often, go with him and say potty, and he goes on just that comand. You just have to have a schedule and stick with it.
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