Stop Your Dog From Digging
27 Sep 2009
Digging Doggies
There are so many dogs that love digging. That’s what doggies will do. It can be seen as quite normal behavior in some cases. There are many reasons for it; to bury treasures, to create a cool spot to lie down, and also for the mere pleasure. But we we don’t want them digging up our lawn~However, we still don’t like holes in the lawn.
When left to his own devices, a dog will often times default to behaviors that come naturally like barking, chewing, chasing, and of course, digging. Thus, your dog will have to be supervised at the start to not encourage these behaviors. Here are some things you can do about digging.
If your doggy is already digging, you will have to intervene with some effective methods that we will provide for you here.
Here Are Some Valuable Ideas:
Allow your doggy to have her own special digging spot. To do it, you must encourage the behavior so you’ll want to take her out there and show this is her digging location. Just take her out to the area and start digging; bury her toys and help her dig it up - if your doggy is a digger, this will be no problem. And if you need to, bury some treats - that’ll get her digging! You’ll want to do this over a period of a couple weeks until she gets it. If you catch her in the act of digging outside of her zone, don’t get mad at her, just guide her to her special spot and resume training.
Here is a wild yet effective technique. When you find your doggy’s digging holes, place their feces inside it. He’s gonna not like this too much and will stop or look for a new area. Keep putting his poop in it and eventually he will associate the digging with yucky. If you don’t want to use poo, you can use rocks - doggies don’t like digging in this.
Say your doggy is digging up around the fence; just put down some wire mesh beneath the lawn or ground along the fence. When the dog digs, she’ll meet with the mesh and won’t like it at all. She’ll stop in a hurry.
Here is another craxy one. Bury a balloon in your doggies holes. Once your doggy digs in one of these holes, he will think twice about doing it again - and if he does, that’ll be the last time for sure.
Keep These Little Things In Mind:
Please don’t just tie your doggy up in the yard and leave him. This causes all kinds of emotional damage to the dog. And it really encourages bad behavior such as, you guessed it, digging. You can pretty much look for the hole(s) when you get home.
Provide space and time for your dog to really let loose and get some serious running in. If you do that, he won’t have the energy for digging!
Spend as much time as possible with your doggy. Just make some time to play a lot with her. She’ll love you for it and will respond better to training as a result.
Oh ya and one last thing about training your dog not to dig, if you want good results, you’ll have to be consistent. Don’t let it slip for a week and wonder why your dog still digs everything up in the garden. To uncover more Great dog training techniques to stop your dog’s behavioral problems, check out this complete dog obedience training manual.
With that said, Happy training all!
