I know the recommendation is to be ever present in the early days but most people seem to build to 4 hours as time goes on. I always took it to mean in one lump but when I look at our day it goes like this, there is the school run, - approx 30 mins, then on the days I go to gym i am back in for about hour then out again for 1 hr - 90 mins. There will be food shopping once a week - approx 90 mins, or a trip to town for something - possibly 2.5 hours, then a school run about 30 mins again. Obvs all of these would not occur every day but school run will and i would generally be out for 1 - 2 hours at one point most days. I can tweak this but do you think that sounds OK? I can take dog to town of course and school run some days. Surely dog owners do not stay chained to their homes all day every day. If I was out accumatively for 4 hours in any one day with the bulk of the time indoors would that work for a dog?
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Of course it would be!
You will have to adjust your life around the puppy quite a lot while she's very little, but as she gets more used to being alone - and has a little more control of her bladder 
it will become less and less necessary.
Puppies do need teaching that alone is OK, and the most reliable way to do it is bit by bit, starting with a second out of a room, then a few more and then a couple of minutes etc. Build it up over the first few weeks.
8/9 week old pups need to pee and poo every 30mins/hour or so, so leaving them alone for much longer than that will not help speed along house training.
But it's only for a few little weeks. Very little when compared to the length of time you'll have the dog in your family. It's much like having a newborn toddler at home for a little while.
The 4 hour advice bit is relevant to leaving a dog alone for 4 hours in one chunk - not little bits of time here and there over a day.
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