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Dog Digging Holes in Garden

  • 06-02-2015 8:33pm
    #1
    compo1
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    How do I stop my dog digging holes in the garden? She's got the place destroyed and always does it while I'm not watching.
    Any ideas, I'm all ears.


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  • #2
    scudzilla
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    compo1 wrote: »
    How do I stop my dog digging holes in the garden? She's got the place destroyed and always does it while I'm not watching.
    Any ideas, I'm all ears.

    Good luck with that, been trying years to stop mine but just gave up, always the same hole, always to the same size, i fill it, she digs it up.


  • #3
    VonVix
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    What's your dog's schedule like? What do they generally do during the day?

    [Dog Training + Behaviour Nerd]



  • #4
    peasant
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    It's difficult to stop the excavation of new holes, but the extension of existing ones can successfully be prevented by depositing some of their own poop in the hole :D:


  • #5
    Knine
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    I have a section of my garden for the dogs. I recently moved house & had concrete put down & I brought a mesh dog run. It is much easier to clean up. No digging & much more hygenic for my kids using the rest of the garden. My terriers love digging & flower arranging!


  • #6
    Graces7
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    I had this issue with my cats and laid chicken wire over the soil... you can plant through it and it hardly shows. Works on veg patches as they grow through Not tried it with the dogs as I have a fence between path and garden now. My two have always enjoyed digging a good hole when we have been in fields.. Maybe leave one section they can still excavate.. But simple fencing areas where they cannot access is really the only answer.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    Are they walked enough? Seems like they have an abundance of energy and take it out by digging.


  • #8
    SingItOut
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    What breed is your dog? All dogs will dig up your garden, some breeds more than others regardless of how much excercise they get. My dogs are walked for two hours every day and will still dig up the yard. That's the joys of owning a dog ;)


  • #9
    compo1
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭compo1


    SingItOut wrote: »
    What breed is your dog? All dogs will dig up your garden, some breeds more than others regardless of how much excercise they get. My dogs are walked for two hours every day and will still dig up the yard. That's the joys of owning a dog ;)
    One little Corgi Cross. Walked twice a day, also gets some pampering just so she can tell me how much she loves me.:D
    Might try Graces7 suggestion or maybe peasant's idea.


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