My partner and I rescued a 9 month old dog less than 3 weeks ago. Both of us work full time, which generally means we have to leave her alone for between 8-9 hours each weekday, except when one of us can work from home, which is probably once or twice every couple of weeks.

Anyways, we're working on setting up a dog walker to come take her for a mid-day walk, but honestly she's been pretty good home alone (not crated) for the whole day. Sometimes she has no accidents at all, other times she'll have a small pee somewhere in the house, which I don't blame her for.

I noticed recently, though, that when we're home and sitting in the living room with her, she'll get up OFTEN (every hour) and squat to pee. When I catch her in the act, I yell "No!" and she usually stops mid-stream, at which point I take her outside (though sometimes she won't even finish peeing when we go out after that happens despite being very good about peeing and pooping when we take her on her 4 regular daily walks). Today, for example, while working for home, I took her out for a walk around 1pm--she peed on that walk. Within 10 minutes of coming back inside, she squatted and started to pee again! Then when I took her out to relieve herself, she didn't go. What could this POSSIBLY be about and how do I help her learn?