So angry with my dog, why does she do this?

[Marne]

Our dog is kept in one room when we go out (which isn't often for more than an hour or so), she kept in with a stair gate. A couple times in the past week she has bashed through the stair gate (its just a presure fit gate) and has gone upstairs, peed on our bed (ruining the duvet) and pooed on the landing (and today in dd's room). Today she has done this twice (whilst i have been on the school run), i am so angry with her, why does she need to wee on our bed and poo on the floor, she never does this in the room she is left in and has a huge garden to poo in. She knows i'm angry and keeps looking at me with her sad eyes , i am fed up with replacing duvets and now she has peed on our matress (as i had already stripped the bed from the time before). I wish she could have access to the whole house but she can't as she cant be trusted.

My 16month old JRT would behave like this if left in the house....I got him a crate and it's the best thing I've ever brought and luckily he loves it....but even if he didn't he would still be put in it! I have a stairgate on the kitchen door but my dc seem incapable of keeping it shut, it drives me insane!
3 weeks ago I popped up to my patents house for 1 hour and left dc here, they didn't shut the stairgate after going in the kitchen and when I came home he had ripped a hole in my leather sofa......that I've had for only 9 months!!!!!!!!! He also chewed a hole in my bed and dug a hole in one mattress!!!!!!

I think there are some dogs though who it's not best to crate. The OP's dog has already shown it doesn't work in this case.

And GAH! at the damage to your house. Does home or pet insurance cover that sort of damage? SO glad I got a much older dog.