Digging Dogs

DIGGING DOGS

Dear Fellow Dog Lover,

I assume you love your dog, or you probably wouldn't be reading this. But, looking at your "battle-field" of a yard filled with holes sometimes makes it tough to love your dog like you want to. You look out the window, and there he is digging like crazy, for no apparent reason. As if there is something buried there that he HAS to have right now! My Border Collie used to drive me nuts!

So, I started checking around. Calling every dog expert I could find trying find someone who knew the answers. Then, Bingo! I found a trainer in who actually had some ideas.

He said most dogs don't dig for no reason. They smell something that intrigues them and compells them to dig. It could be many things. From moles to mold.

In my case it was mold from an old decaying tree stump just under the surface. "Buster" had dug a virtual "foxhole" around the area.

Here's what I discovered. First, there are some commercial products you can by like "Keep Off" and "Repell" and I had some success with them. But, they soon loose their effect. Either they simply wear off, or get washed away by rain, etc. But the attraction to dig remains.

Here's what I did that actually broke my dog's digging habit forever!

The trainer who finally helped told me to put the dog's poo in the holes. I said "will that really work?" And he said "Well, unless your dog likes digging in s---." I grabbed my shovel and everytime I cleaned up after my dog I put the poo in the hole. It worked almost immediately. Everytime I saw a new hole, I started filling it with poo. Within a week my dog gave up and quit digging.

So, since you need to clean your yard anyway, you might give it try. Get a couple bags of soil, put in the dog poo, fill up the holes with the mixture and plant some grass seed. Soon you'll have your yard looking like a yard again.

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