How To Stop Your Dog From Digging Holes In Your Garden

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Primarily, I need to figure out when he is digging. As long as I recognize the dog and his lifestyle, I can rule out few factors such as boredom or puppyhood or gophers, etc...
I noticed that every time he would start digging holes he was in the yard playing with a friend's dog, unsupervised.
So, I primarily need to Make SURE that it was In fact MY DOG that was the perpetrator. A quick look at his feet would call attention to that it was.
Next, I wanted to figure out if he would search Certain Opportunity he was left alone in the yard or if it was only while another dog was present.
To figure this out, I simply left the dog in the yard alone with access to the rose garden a number times... and came back to realize that he had not dug.
So... it stands to reason that the only time my dog is digging in the yard is nevertheless there is another dog in the yard. (Who knows why' There could be a million unexplained reasons that only the dog knows. All I need in order to fix the behavior is knowledge of the dog and the conditions).
Now, I ac that to fix any behavior problem I need to obtain the dog past experience a NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION with the actual ACT of doing that behavior. In this case, digging in the garden.
And he needs to experience that alike negative association EVERY Opportunity HE DIGS!
In this case, I must be 100% diligent to at no time leave Forbes unsupervised in the yard as far as there is another dog in the yard.

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Of course, if he was digging by himself, then I'd need to confine him to a kennel run where he cannot search nonetheless I'm not supervising him. Or if there is another dog visiting then I will need to bring Forbes inside, put him in the kennel run, or use the presence of the other dog as a "specific up."
The next step is to make sure that he associates that negative (correction) just as he starts to inquiry.
There are two ways I can do this: The Lazy Man's Way and the Old Fashioned Way. Both methods are based on the alike principle.
The Old Fashioned Way to obtain sure that the dog gets a motivational negative association in any case he digs is to:
Step 1.) Leave a pinch collar and tab (one foot leash) on the dog as far as he's outside in the yard with another dog.
Step 2.) Bury hardware mesh or chicken wire in the spot where he's been digging. The chicken wire should be buried two to three inches under the surface. Dogs don't care for scraping their paws against this stuff. So, right off the bat you've got an immediate negative association.
Step 3.) Spy on him and just wait until he beginning to inquiry.
Step 4.) Like soon as he begins to search, yell "No No No!" like you run outside and provide the dog a correction. Because you continue to say "No no no" like you run to the dog, the dog WILL still associate the correction with the behavior.
Step 5.) Be 100% consistent until you are 100% sure that the dog isn't digging certain more.
The Lazy Man's Way to fix this problem behavior is to use a remote electronic collar (e-collar). Everything else remains the alike. (Click on the link above to read in relation to my recommendations for buying a remote electronic training collar).
Yet using the e-collar for this behavior, I'd turn the setting up to the high level. Your idea is to create absolute avoidance to this behavior (digging in the garden). And you want him to anticipate that the dirt just jumped up and bit him! Again and again if you correct the dog with the electronic collar for this type of behavior, you've only got to take up it twice before the dog decides that it's in his better interest to leave your garden alone.


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