its pretty rare that a nine week old will hold it all night.
it wasn't literally all night.. she was taken out at like 3am. so it was actually from 3am-7am that she was in the crate. I'm not sure about you guys but if im already taking her out every 2 hrs during the day... I don't think it's unreasonable for me to have her in the crate from 3am-7am while I actually get some rest
IF you want her to stop peeing as soon as you open the door you should take her out more frequently.
That's not the issue. she goes out every 2hrs. throughout the day. She is peeing out of excitement YAY he is here to take me out.. pee... YAY he is putting on the leash.. pee
What is her schedule right now?
7am- take her out to release herself ..then I feed her food & water
then we walk around the neighborhood
by the time all of this is done it's usually about 8:30 so the next time I take her out is around 10-10:30am
(she is not crated during the day and she don't urinate in the house while being out and playing... UNTIL I go to put the leash on)
10:30AM I take her out again to release herself.. she don't pee much because at this point she already did in the house when I leashed her.. we walk around a bit and come back in the house
12 Noon- I take her out again.. same thing as above.. this time I feed her and give her some more water and we go on the same walk again... come back around 1pm
3pm we are back in the backyard again.. this time she actually poops (stools are solid)
5pm is when I take her out again and give food and water for the last time of the day.. and we take our walk again
7pm I let the kids take her out and play (I don't really let my kids out until the sun is starting to set because it's just too hot here this time of year
10/10:30pm I take her out again.. same as above... she would have either peed from me putting leash on her/or by this time I would have tried a diff. route than leashing in the house I would try to just have her walk outside on her own....but like always she don't and she runs to a place in the house where she isn't allowed and gets on our favorite carpet that's when the wife panics thinking she will urinate on it so I go to grab her to take her out and BAM.. starts peeing while Im carrying her outside
this is the reason the house has the odor of urine.. not necessarily from her squatting and peeing in the house... from excitement of being leashed/ excitement of being taken out of the crate/ fear from being picked up to be taken out <-- if I can fix those 3 areas I think she will be close to potty trained... she never just squats and pees in the house
12:30/1am I take her out again.. and we just hang out outside a bit.... it's really peaceful and quiet at this time..
on some nights this will be her last time going out for the day/night... other times if I'm not tired I will take her out 1 last time before I call it a night which would be around 2:30am/3am
then I get back up at 7am and repeat everything above.. this is our every day routine.. I work from home so I'm always here and able to keep up with this schedule