Gardening Dogs????
 Everywhere we work there are four dogs (1 OES) right where we need to work! And if we need to take a break...they keep right on working! We have never had a "digging" problem, but now wherever we dig, they dig . . . especially when we are not looking. We have put in new bark mulch, but now we have to go back and put the bark back in, and go back and go back.  Hmm, they never bothered the old bark. Doesn't seem right. Is this people work - or - doggie work? |
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Sorry but it is so funny!  We are not supposed to dig in front of our dogs but when I was weeding I was reinforcing them to dig to make my job easier.  |
Hmmm, four-legged weed eaters. Not a bad idea.  |
| My Jack Russell used to dig the holes when I planted flowers. She was great! |
| If you can teach them to dig upon request and only the desired areas than you can have a really good thing going! |
| I've given up on having flowers in the ground anywhere the dogs are allowed in the yard. I guess I'm just not diligent enough at teaching them where they are not allowed to lie down. They don't dig them up, but they do love that cool soil and they lie down and smother the flowers.
Best of luck to you! |
| This too will pass........I hope. Ours were great diggers, but now it's limited to one spot, no two, as they adjust the dirt for proper hip and spine support while watching the front gate and road.
I've told the story of MO helping us garden, especially the time my husband was digging a hole for a rose and just on the other side of a shrub, not 8 feet from Paul, MO was digging her own hole. "Here Dad, this is a better spot!!" Actually your guys might resent the loss of warm soil, resent the intrusion of new smells or are just curious in why you were digging in THEIR area. You can remove some mulch, put down chicken wire, secure with metal pins (cut 12 inches or so of wire, bend in half and secure wire edges as well as throughout the mesh field) and recover with mulch. If you used landscape fabric, if that is well pinned most dogs don't bother it once they've investigated a few time. Woe be if they find an edge....then it's a new play toy. Planting stinky plants helps, like garlic chives - except Jack LOVES those. |
| Fetch loves to dig. I'm hoping to channel that behavior in my favor next year when I'm gardening, although I'm not sure how to do that. |
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