Puppy house-training plan: sound OK?

We welcomed Pretzel into our home on Dec 15th, and she's absolutely wonderful. She's such a lovebug and is doing really well with her sits, downs, and stays.

But we can't seem to convince her to stop peeing in the house.

For the first month and a half or so, we had Pretzel using training pads inside the house since we had to wait for the last batch of shots to take her outside. We put the pad on a towel and set it outside of her crate (crate door always open). At night, we would put a small fence around her crate and the pad so she couldn't wander about. During the day before heading to work, we'd take the fence down and restrict her to the kitchen and leave the pad+towel in the same spot, and we'd come home to a torn up pad... but at least it seemed like she still used the pad and towel for her business (no stray puddles or piles to clean up). When we were home and let her out of the fenced in area, she would do a good job going on her pads and soon she was going exclusively on her pads.

Then two things changed:
(1) We started to be able to take her outside. She's gotten really at going pee when we take her to her spot and say "Go pee".
(2) We bought a pad holder for during the day to discourage her from tearing her pee pads to shreds. Just a small plastic tray that has a frame that locks down to keep the pad in place.

Sometime after these two changes, Pretzel has started leaving puddles around the house. We take her out every hour when we're home (despite the fact that she's 4 months old and should be able to hold her pee for at least 4 hours, I've heard), and 95% of the time she pees when we take her out, but she still manages to go pee in the house. And there doesn't appear to be any warning when she doesone second she's playing with her toy, the next she's squattingnone of the tell-tale sniffing or circling.

After a few days of coming home from work with puddles and piles to clean up, we started leaving the fence up so she's restricted to her crate and her pad. Luckily it doesn't seem as though she's peed in her crate (thank goodness), so she has no choice but to go on her pad. Since she's restricted to her fenced-in area during the day, we open up the fence and let her walk about when we get home, and we make sure to take her out every hour. But like I said, even with the hourly potty breaks, she stlll pees on the floor.

Thanks so much for any advice you're able to share. Other than keeping her confined to her pad area or taking her out every 30 minutes, I'm all out of ideas.

Thanks so much,
Leah

Having trouble housetraining my 3 and a half month old Coton de Tulear. He is ok all night, he sleeps upstairs with us, and he was using paper with about 80% success in the house and also going and being praised for it in the garden. He is now allowed out for walks but doesn't seem to want to pee whilst out on the leash, and tonight, after a long walk and a play in the garden he has come in and wet on the carpet upstairs - in the bedroom. I cannot understand what he is thinking when there was newspaper nearby that he didn't use! What are we doing wrong??

Thanks for the helpful advice, Preethi. I realised what the problem was with the above 'accident' ! Theo had just come out of the bath the previous evening and went onto the newspaper, my husband moved him off it as he thought he would roll on the newsprint and he put him on the carpet where he instantly made a puddle. He was merely remembering the fact that he was taken off the paper to toilet. So now he won't use newspaper at all. He goes outside 99% of the time now, and I am aware that I will have to 're-scent' the newspaper to encourage him to use it again!
My problems now are firstly, he is confusing the games where he runs around the house and garden and we chase him with the times that we want him to come when he is called. Does this mean we cannot continue the chasing games if he is to obey the 'come!' command? Also he is eating everything in sight on walks and in the garden. Especially cat and other dog faeces. Is his diet deficient? I am feeding him a mix of chicken, rice, vegetables and a small amount of good quality tinned dog food at the moment, as he would not eat his meals if the dry biscuit (junior type) was added as his breeder suggested. I'd like to 'wean' him off home cooked food anyway, but I live in France and the varieties of dog food are quite limited in the local stores, especially the non dried type. Any advice would be welcome, thanks!