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Dog digging in the garden

  • 07-10-2012 7:04pm
    #1
    City boy turned country
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I am looking for some advice. My dog (a golden labrador 4 years old) keeps digging a hole in the exact same spot in the back garden. It has happened 5 or 6 times now. It's not from boredom as I walk her twice a day.

    Has anyone any advice?

    Thanks

    Cbtc


Comments

  • #2
    barbiegirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭barbiegirl


    Sounds weird, but it worked for us. Take some of her poo and put it in the hole, then fill the hole in. It stopped our girl for 18 months, she dug it again, we did the same thing and it stopped again. Weird but true


  • #3
    RubyGirl
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    barbiegirl wrote: »
    Sounds weird, but it worked for us. Take some of her poo and put it in the hole, then fill the hole in. It stopped our girl for 18 months, she dug it again, we did the same thing and it stopped again. Weird but true

    works for me aswell.


  • #4
    Chucken
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    I'm not trying to be smart but dogs like digging.


  • #5
    Cedrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Pepper sprinkled where you don't want them to dig works, if there's a place that is safe and where you don't mind her digging, let her, as it is a natural activity for dogs and they like to bury bones etc.


  • #6
    SillyMangoX
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    You could try buying a kids sand pit and burying toys or treats in it for her to dig, it could be a hard behavior to fully get rid of but giving her someplace to dig without ruining the garden could help her satisfy her need to dig in a controlled manner.


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  • #7
    Quality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    My lab buries bones and toys in the garden.. she has few areas, she will hide things in.

    She took a big like to digging in one particular spot in the garden for no reason.. a big deep hole... maybe she was getting a scent from the area??

    I just covered that spot so that she cant dig there anymore, and it seemed to stop the problem.


  • #8
    él statutorio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭él statutorio


    barbiegirl wrote: »
    Sounds weird, but it worked for us. Take some of her poo and put it in the hole, then fill the hole in. It stopped our girl for 18 months, she dug it again, we did the same thing and it stopped again. Weird but true

    This.

    Mate had a Great Dane digging up his garden, the dog was wrecking the place. He lobbed a few of the dogs (huge) turds into the holes (didn't fill them in though) and that was the end of the digging.


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