Digging

MojoTilly · Master

Digging

C_J · Master

LOL

See my post "excavation in Progress" a bit further down in the behavioural problems. Casper is still a digger and no matter how exhausted, or how much playing or training we have been doing if he wants to dig then he WILL!

He doesn't do it every day, or even every week but just when he feels like it. Even if we're out a walk sometimes he will stop and have a wee dig every so often. No reason for it, just because he feels like it I think.
Maybe, like Casper, Tilly is just a digger.

When I tell him to stop digging he still goes into a play bow and dashes about mad as though I am playing with him. Life is just a game to him, and it sounds like it's a game for Tilly too.

So unfortunately I can give you no advice whatsoever...

Jane

P.S. Sorry for laughing so much, this is maybe a serious subject for you but I LOL when I think of Casper digging - he looks so crazy.

MojoTilly · Master

Tilly looks crazy when she does it too!!! Probably is a game for her - will continue to distract her when she does it!

At least Tilly is black and the dirt doesn't show much on her - Bet Casper gets covered from head to toe in mud being white!!!

FAJ · Enlightened One

Digging is a self-fulfilling action - they dig, they smell the earth, that gets them excited, so they dig even more, they smell the earth even more, they get even more excited. And thus it goes on!

As you can see, Harry loves to dig, then he'd do a Casper and rush around like a happy daftie! You can't really see form this piccie but he ended up excavating hols about 2 foot deep all over the place. But then we spoiled his fun and got the garden landscaped. We're bad!

MojoTilly · Master

How cruel you were getting the garden landscaped and spoiling his fun!!! Tilly's holes look rather pathetic next to Harry's two footers - perhaps she can get some tips off him at the next GAL walk!

Amanda · Master

Fantasic pic Fiona

Blue is not a digger however he is still driven mad looking for hide chews that Sparty burried in our garden a year ago. He was a great digger and at least he filled the holes in afterwards

greyluvver · GAL Membership Co-Ordinator

Did I read somewhere that someone actually has a sand pit for their dog to dig in??

JENNY · Big Cheese

LOL what a great pic. I like the way your garden in just soil with a few patches of grass here and there

Siouxsie · Enlightened One

greyluvver wrote:

Did I read somewhere that someone actually has a sand pit for their dog to dig in??

This sort of thing has really worked with a lot of digging dogs. If you actually give them a place to dig, you can train them through burying things for them to find in the place they are allowed to excavate.

MojoTilly · Master

We did try to persuade Tilly to dig our vegetable patch for us, but she seemed to find the grass much more satisfying! Will monitor the situation, and if it looks as though a sand pit will be necessary we'll get her one for her birthday!