Wolfiefan, where did I say I restrict her to only a small area all day long?? I have a 4 by 4 foot area for her to do her business in, which most of the time she does. It is about once a day, usually in the afternoon, that she will have an accident when I take her and she does not go and then bring her in and she goes. I suspect she needs a little more time. During the day, after she has peed and pooped, she is allowed to roam the garden, or play in the whole of downstairs (which is our living room and kitchen) and basically where I am at all day long. Also, she does the school run with me or the au pair, being held, as I am waiting until her last vaccine kicks in to let her on the ground.
And Daisy doesn't, the dog park is literally one minute walk away for a human, which probably means 5 mins for the puppy with 3 trees along the way, so I am hoping it works out just fine, and if not I am fine to keep doing most of her pees in the garden, as we have been doing.
Adeline, I get the dog would prefer all of the garden to go wee or poo, but we also have to think of our kids the play in the garden. At the moment the puppy is doing well with her training. She is only 9 weeks old and does several weeds in her spot, usually the morning poo. She does have a couple accidents in the day, but we have only had her a week.
And, our entire Garden is of tiles, not lawn. We bought the house and that was the way it was when we bought it. So at the moment, this is what she has to learn to do. She does usually go in her spot and btw when she does have an accident, its on tile or wood floor usually, as all of down stairs has no rugs. We had one carpeted rug that we removed, after she weed on it, as did not want it becoming a habit.
If its a problem for her to walk to the park, when she can walk outside, I can carry her, as its literally next to our house and one minute or less for a human, as I have never timed it. In fact, if I had a door to my garden, it would open up to the grassy dog park!!!!