Another vote for poop in the hole, cured my dog of digging really quick and never had a problem since.
so to get the dogs to stay out of my flower beds is as simple maybe as putting their poop in there!?
Another vote for poop in the hole, cured my dog of digging really quick and never had a problem since.
We had a Jack Russell that we broke of digging simply by wearing the dog out as often as possible. He would still get out a few times to run in the woods (mostly killing small woodland creatures) but he wouldn't just randomly dig.
Thanks for all of the advice. We do get them tired a lot, and they have a fairly large fenced in area to run in . They're brother and sister, so they "fight" and play pretty hard. I'm outside with them a bunch, so I can try to catch them in the act. The ground is pretty soft since the area was a garden area until we fenced in the backyard and we're turning it back to grass. I'll take away their shovels and put some cayenne pepper in the hole to see if that helps persuade them to go do something else.
so to get the dogs to stay out of my flower beds is as simple maybe as putting their poop in there!?
Put their own crap in the hole, they won't dig in their own crap. Worked for my lab and my lab/german shepherd mix. Eventually they realize every hole they dig fills up with crap.
We had a problem with our youngest dog (she's 8 now) digging under our fence. I took chicken wire and went around the entire fence (about 400-450 feet) putting half the wire on the ground and then about half going up the fence in an "L" shape, staking it to the ground and wiring it to the fence. Approximately 5 minutes after I finished, she discovered she could jump up on the fence and climb over.