binka
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Post by binka on Mar 10, 2009 13:22:06 GMT -5
We've only had her since Nov and the past couple of weeks she's started digging like mad in the garden. At first it was just below the conifer hedge and in the boarders so not to bad but today she's dug a massive hole in the middle of the lawn. DH is going to go seriously nuts when he sees it, he was mad enough about the other holes and was saying she had to go.  I promised him I'd sort this out! |
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Post by Letty's Mum on Mar 10, 2009 14:10:38 GMT -5
Sorry I don't have any advice for you because I am having the same problem with Buster, my foster boy. It doesn't help that my house is up for sale at the moment and the garden looks awful. Hopefully, someone else will be able to help us both out. In the meantime, I hope you manage to smooth things over with OH  |
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Post by vickyb on Mar 10, 2009 17:46:50 GMT -5
Our last dog was a nightmare, we gave up and grassed the borders and just repaired the lawn as and when, decided it was a fight we couldn't win I'm afraid, so stopped stressing it. What we lost in pleasure from the flowers we more than made up for from him ;D. We've now got it all paved with just a few pots of flowers but even so Gracie enjoys a nice nose dig in them every so often, I just shrug and sweep it up, life's too short to stress it . |
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Post by Jane and Sara on Mar 11, 2009 5:08:28 GMT -5
No idea - Poppy and Nelly dug up the garden last year - and the greyhound who lived across the road at the time was doing the same thing - we decided they were tunneling under the road to get to each other! Seriously hope they are not going to try it this year as now have artificial grass!
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Post by andywillow on Mar 11, 2009 5:15:07 GMT -5
I was going to say take her spade off her  Can you not go out in the garden with her and give a firm No!!! when she starts. Other than keeping a constant eye on her I'm not sure what you could do. Our garden is going to be flagged this year or something similiar as its got beyond repair but thats nothing to do with digging Sue |
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Post by lurcherlot on Mar 11, 2009 5:28:20 GMT -5
I think your husband has to accept that a lot of dogs do dig  Mine will if I let them out alone - so I rarely do. Having said that, I no longer call their garden a garden ..... t'is a field  Lurcher race tracks, uneven surface from the bl**dy rabbits digging, mole hills etc ..... I've given up the uneven struggle! |
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Post by ragsysmum on Mar 11, 2009 5:36:52 GMT -5
Some folk make a special sand pit area for them to dig in and direct them to that whenever the urge takes them. Burying a toy or odd treats in there can encourage them to dig in that spot only and it defintely works for some people so has to be worth a try. Been lucky so far and never had a digger.....probably famous last words that!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2009 5:39:44 GMT -5
Ellie digs, she has a designated digging area under a bush which is out of the way. After her digging frenzy has finished I fill the hole back up again.
Can you let Bonnie have an area to dig in?
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Post by vickyb on Mar 11, 2009 7:49:12 GMT -5
No idea - Poppy and Nelly dug up the garden last year - and the greyhound who lived across the road at the time was doing the same thing - we decided they were tunneling under the road to get to each other! Seriously hope they are not going to try it this year as now have artificial grass! I know its off the topic, but have been wondering how the artificial grass went? A new thread with pics is essential I'm intrigued as it's a different process to ours. |
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Post by binka on Mar 11, 2009 9:33:18 GMT -5
I'll think I'll try making sure I always go out with her for a few days or until the habit's broken. If that doesn't work then will look into getting her a sandpit! Thanks.
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Post by bigbird on Mar 12, 2009 4:57:48 GMT -5
Sky is a devil for digging- we've got a disused raised bed she loves to get in and go at it like a dog posessed! I've heard providing a designated area is the way with a digger, but I thought I'd done this for sky but she's now started on the flower beds! :-)
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Post by ragsysmum on Mar 12, 2009 6:12:23 GMT -5
I thgink even a designated digging area will only work if you are with them and direct them to it every time they go out in the early days though. The more rewarded they are for digging in that one spot the less likely they are to move to some other area.
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Post by elmuervo on Mar 12, 2009 13:06:15 GMT -5
Barney digs, digs and digs some more, and Biggles is a post-wee kicker and scraper . We, too, are planning to have paving done instead of grass . . . very soon indeed!  Jo x |
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Post by hippyhounds on Mar 12, 2009 13:13:51 GMT -5
we gave up on lawns and flower beds after about 6 months of owning hounds,we,ve got 2 diggers and it just was,nt worth keeping it.we now have paving, pea shingle and stuff and its so much easier.
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Post by kris on Mar 15, 2009 10:23:23 GMT -5
My old boy is just the same every evening about 8pm - he races around the garden full tilt - arthritis and all then digs a huge hole  I gave up! He has his own bit of garden now - which was his favourite digging spot. I filled the crater with forest bark - which I can just rake back in. Strategically placed garden pots put him off the other favourite areas - and now he only digs in his spot. It also means his feet are much cleaner than digging in soil! Oh - and his nose - as he buries his own wee with his nose once he has dug his hole |
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