Dog digging in flowerbed :(

[Rick]

Once or twice is all it usually takes, and dogs dry all by themselves just like eveything else that gets wet.

[Doug Kanter]

Great, but they stink when they're dry, and they're even worse when they're wet. Sorry. No prize for you today.

[paghat]

Yes yes, we already knew the only troll on board was yourself. When you anonymize yourself in order to make light of child molestation, confessing that to you "It's amusing how many people rape their kids," & then you brag that you've easily trolled the ng after you are provided with the level of respect you merit, well, it's misplaced pride to say the least.

-paghat the ratgirl

[Rick]

Dropped off the meds again I see.

[paghat]

Well, I think a wet dog smells pretty nice compared to a dog that has been rolling happily all over a magotty dead racoon.

-paghat the ratgirl

[Rick]

I am crushed. It did work for me, and does work for others but YMMV. How do you think you smell to them?

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[Ann]

sockiescat expounded:

Are you, by any chance, amending the soil with bone meal? Years ago when my mother was a new gardener she tried to keep a rosebush by the corner of the porch. Every time she put the thing in the ground the dog would dig it up, and she just couldn't understand why - the dog wasn't usually a digger. One of her friends had told her to use bone meal as rose food. Finally my father figured it out The rose died, the dog stopped digging, and Mom stopped using bone meal while the dog was alive.

[al]

Have you considered an invisible fence. I hear they work quite nice.

[Cereus-validus-...........]

So you are admitting it, eh Rickett?

Shouldn't you be at your weekly AAAKKK meeting?

[Suzy O]

How about fencing the area off with a chicken wire fence or something similar and then try to train the dog to dig in his/her designated area? It worked with our mutt. Maybe it will work with yours. Suzy O

[Suzy O]

Sorry, but sometimes certain dog behaviors such as digging are not at all about neurotic dogs, but simply part of the particular dog's breeding. Training can sometimes help curb the behavior, but it usually doesn't work to entirely extinguish the innate behavior of certain breeds. In that case, why fight mother dog nature when it's so much easier to use fencing to exclude off limit areas and then work on training the dog to redirect the digging to an acceptable area? Suzy O

[sockiescat]

Suzy O Sorry, but sometimes certain dog behaviors such as digging ar

not at all about neurotic dogs, but simply part of the particular dog's breeding. Training can sometimes help curb the behavior, but it usually doesn' work to entirely extinguish the innate behavior of certain breeds. In tha case, why fight mother dog nature when it's so much easier to use fencing to exclude off limit areas and then work on training the dog to redirec the digging to an acceptable area? Suzy O

hi everyone sorry i didnt introduce myself earlier im sockiescat an i live on a farm in ontario canada.

i have a problem that hopefully someone might be able to help m with. we redid a couple of flowerbeds this year with new shrubs and some perennials. the problem that we are now having is my sons dog (which we ended up with lol) is now digging up those flowerbeds. its really getting t me because she is a medium size dog and digs huge holes to lay in. we have tried just about everything thinkable to try and stop her but she just wont listen. does anyone have any suggestions as to what we might be able to tr to stop the flowerbed digging dog. any help would be greatly appreciated thanks for any info you can give us. take care, sockiescat

Persistent digging (like biting or persistent barking or chewing everyone's stuff to pieces) tends to be a neurotic behavior, usually caused by some degree of bad socialization or neglect or lonelines or stress in the dog's life, all invariably the fault of the owner. Onc a bad behavior begins, it will not stop until you have gone throug some strict training alongside the dog with a trainer expert in modifying harmful behaviors in dogs -- & harmful care techniques of owners People unwilling to invest the time, money, & training required to have healthy happy well-behaved dog should meet the same fates as most of thes poor animals.

-paghat the ratgirl

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yup paghat some dogs can do strange things if they are neglected o under stress but this dog gets lots of love and attention. she follow me everywhere i go and puts her nose in my hand if im walking or lay her head on my lap if im sitting outside so i sure dont think that sh is to neglected. i want to thank everyone for their comments and ideas on how to dea with nora. i ended up squirting her with the hose if i was out and had caught he near the flower beds. as well as using a firm command of NO if she did go near them and didnt have the hose then praised her if she left them alone. we also encouraged her to dig over near our grain bin so that she ha another place to dig and followed up with a lot of praise when she di so. of course she also had to have some treats to go along with that prais lol. she didnt do to badly up until snow fly so i guess we will see wha happens in the spring again. thanks again everyone. sockiescat

-- sockiescat