My puppy pees inside the house when not supervised

Question
Hello, I have a Toy American Eskimo puppy for nearly 3 months now.  This is my first puppy and I had been trying to train/discipline her by following my friends who also have dog(s).  I had just recently started reading online for house training tips and realized I may have taken some wrong methods.

My puppy is extremely smart, she picked up the jist of how to sit, stand, lay down, roll over in 15 min each.  She's crate trained now fairly well.  At night, I let her sleep on the bed with me, and she never pee or poo in the bedroom area unless sometimes I sleep in and miss taking her out in the morning.  However, if I leave her in the living room, she HIDES from me and pee on the carpet.  She still poos in the living, but on a MUCH rarer occurrence.  When I see her pee in the living room (not during the act), I'd pull her next to the spot and scold her by saying "No" (not yelling her) and point to the carpet.  This method just doesn't seem to be effective.

1) From lots of readings online, I read that supervising my puppy once it's out of its crate is my responsibility.  However there're just times when I can't pay full attention to my puppy (cooking, eating, etc)  Should I keep her in the crate during those times?

2) Right now, my method of preventing her causing a mess in the living room is to try to take her out for a pee break 30 min after drinking water, and I try to keep it at about 4 times a day when I give her water.  Is this a feasible way or should I change up this routine?

3) If I keep using method #2, I feel as if I'm just controlling her pee schedule, and she's not learning to hold it until I take her outside, would this be the case?

4) Just today morning, I woke up for work then my puppy and I walked to the living room together as I was grabbing the leash to walk her.  She ran about 30 feet away from me (while still in my vision range) and peed.  This is making me concerned that she still thinks the living room is a restroom to her, and she can do whatever she wants there.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer
Hello Sean:

Here are my answers below your questions.

Should I keep her in the crate during those times?
Yes, if you can not watch her put her in her create.  Take her out for an opportunity to pee before creating and take her out again immediately when you let her out of the create.



Is this a feasible way or should I change up this routine?
No this is a feasible way, at 3/4 months of age, she can be expected to hold her toilet for 3/4 hours.  Excluding feeding times, waking from naps.


If I keep using method #2, I feel as if I'm just controlling her pee schedule, and she's not learning to hold it until I take her outside, would this be the case?
Dogs will not naturally mess their create, so this is how she learns to hold it. Using a timing schedule for pee breaks also helps in her learning to hold it.


Just today morning, I woke up for work then my puppy and I walked to the living room together as I was grabbing the leash to walk her.  She ran about 30 feet away from me (while still in my vision range) and peed.  This is making me concerned that she still thinks the living room is a restroom to her, and she can do whatever she wants there.
The answer lays in your pre questions comments "When I see her pee in the living room (not during the act), I'd pull her next to the spot and scold her by saying "No" (not yelling her) and point to the carpet.  This method just doesn't seem to be effective.

Dogs (puppies) do not have immediate control over their toilets, they have to learn how to control.  When a pet parent, yells, rubs the dogs nose in it, or takes to to soiled area, either to punish or reprimand, no matter the levels of voice or hitting or not hitting.  All they teach the puppy is that their toilet displeases them, not that where they went is the problem, but the fact they they went at all.  So dogs thusly treated will, move away or hide to go potty, because they have learnt you don't like them peeing or pooping at all.  No that you are trying to teach them where to go.

Never no matter what act with negative voice or feelings about potty training mistakes.  Just clean it up with a proper cleaning agent to get rid of enzymes dogs can smell, and mark it up to YOU not the Puppy need to be more careful and observant of when they need to go.

Using food rewards for toilet outside, will help, remove the fear your dog now has of going potty in your presence.

You have not irrevocably damaged your puppy yet at 3 months of age, and you can get back on track.  It is a realistic goal that it takes 5 to 6 months of proper house training for a dog to become fully house trained.  Occasional accidents may occur, smaller breeds are known to be a bit harder to deal with, and I would say this is because smaller breeds are often below eye sight, so their signals for I need to go toilet are often missed.

Look up the use of Bell training as a clear signal your dog can learn to give you when it needs to go potty.

Regards

Marcia