How old is she? Really young puppies don't have the bladder strength to hold their urine for an extended period so potty training will take a lot of patience until the pup is older.

Google for articles or watch some youtube videos for instructions. Since I've never trained a dog to go inside the house I can't offer much, but here is one site that may help. One suggestion: try keeping the puppy confined with a puppy pen when you can't watch her every minute and place her pee pad at one end and her bed/food/water at the other. When I fostered litters of puppies I always kept them in pens and they always learned to go on the pads/papers that were in the pen.

Wow. I also don't know the age of your pup... you said you have had her for five weeks. Say 15 weeks or ~ four months.

A thumb rule I have used for estimating how long a healthy young dog might be expected to "hold it" is Age In Months + One = Hours. Your 4 month old ideally might go 4+1=5 hours. (Notice that means she should not be expected to make it thru the night in her crate without peeing!)

You should be rushing her to the desired spot to allow her to pee: 1) Immediately upon her waking (Bet she sleeps a lot.) 2) Immediately after eating: 3) Immediately after drinking: 4) Every 3-4 hours (Round the clock!!!)

If she has not got the message about using the pee pad, if you leave her in a crate or on your porch, you are setting her up for failure. Period. You are also setting yourself up for disappointment. If the dog does not yet understand the need to use the pee pad, it is not the dog's fault if she pees in her crate or on the floor. That would be your fault.

You must help her to go potty/pee at less than four hour intervals, encouraging her with praise when she does what you want. If you are leaving her for a few hours, you should delay your departure until you can get her to pee and you should return in a few hours and immediately try to get her pee. When you obtained her, you apparently did not know what your responsibilities were going to be. You do not get a full uninterrupted night's sleep until she is able to last the entire night... that's still months away.

Lest M1, M2, or M3 weigh in and claim their little foo-foo made it thru the night at age four months, it does happen. But is not the norm.

"I turn my back "

In my opinion, there's the mistake. Leash her to you and keep one eye on her, if she paces,squats, makes ANY kind of 'I'm gonna pee' signal, rush her out there and praise he if she pees.

Some would suggest that being proactive is better than waiting for her to "paces,squats, makes ANY kind of 'I'm gonna pee' signal."

Just sayin'. (i.e. no hassle.) lol

Saltidawg, did you happen to read the OP's post?

" Every hour (when I'm home) I bring her to the pad and say potty but she refuses to go. "

So, one takes the pup to a pee pad when it does not need to know and the pup learns what? Is this training called, "Training by hoped for coincidental need to urinate?"

And yes, I did read the OP's post - did you read mine?

As a former successful dog exhibitor and breeder, I house broke many, many dogs, and provided help and guidance to many, many others. I also am a huge fan of crating.

I believe if I had a pup on a leash (as advocated by the Monks of New Skete et al) it would help with preventing the pup's getting into trouble chewing on things, but I don't believe I would often be able to detect a 15 week old pup just starting to squat.

I can delete my posts if you find them offensive somehow.

Nice. Throwing a little tantrum there? Throwing around your credentials because I pointed out that the OP HAS been proactive?

A tantrum? lol

I tried to provide some backup to my post addressing the OP's situation.

You posted an approach that will not work, in my considered opinion. Instead of attacking you, I said:

"Some would suggest that being proactive
is better than waiting for her to "paces,squats, makes ANY kind of 'I'm
gonna pee' signal."

Just sayin'. (i.e. no hassle.) lol

You then went on the attack with a string of moronic posts.

Do you even understand what causes pups at a very young age to urinate or defecate? Based on your posts, you do not.

I wish you well.

Sheesh!

We still need more info from rustalgic............