it depends on how you look at it I guess :)

Bathroom issues are a little different than behavioral issues. They can be connected, sure, but dogs aren't perfect. In this case, the dog in question is 13 years old and is probably getting cranky in her old age, but even young dogs can have times where they just don't want to cooperate. They are living, thinking beings, not machines. My dogs are awesome, respectful, well behaved dogs. I expect them to be this way because they are large animals, but even they aren't perfect and can misbehave. Dogs, cats, horses, etc will ALL misbehave at some point because they are not machines. The day adult humans can go through life without ever misbehaving is the day I will expect animals to.

haha, she's far from cranky, but she certainly has character :)

My dog does the same f**king thing

Give her a bath.

We usually bathe her once a year in the summer. Does her for ages. This year, she got two baths in two weeks. There's only three other times this has happened in her thirteen years; before her hysterectomy of her infected womb (we didn't know what was going on at first), after she swallowed a knuckle off a lamb hock, and needed to be ... um... cleansed, and after she massacred a rat after my mother be lived she was too stupid to do it :P Given her bath track record, we reckon she stinks due to her old age. We love our smelly bitch.