Problem........solution!?

[Sieg]

I have this cute little 125 lb. Dane named Tucker (currently with an F) who had become obsessed (6-7 times in 2 months) with digging in one spot of our front entry plant bed. I've talked to him nicely, I've set him up and popped him with the "training" collar, walked him to the scene of the crime and verbally scolded him which is usually very effective..........but there is something with this spot! It's a 3' deep planter filled with pure loam, ideal diggin material.

Here's the mutt and his backhoe length legs.
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He left the spot alone for a while, but twice in the last few days he's back at it. This hole will easily accept a basketball with room on top for cream, but the regulation football was convenient.

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I've also tried red pepper but he likes spicy food so it had no impact.

Hopefully this is a solution...........I did 1/4 turn the sheet after the picture to minimize snagging a nail.

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[glassman]

Probably a little sewer gas seeping through the soil, he smells the nutrient's in it and thinks its food. Sorry Siegster, no more sh$ting in the house for you and the fam. Sux. My tucker is sitting next to me right now as i type snoring like a mofo. He is one fat and lazy and lovable white english lab (and smelly)....i call hime the "rare white pig of livermore".

[Track Junky]

Cant wait to see how this turns out......:popcorn2:

[Shmoov69]

Will work.... Kind of! I'd just hook up an electric fence around it. My lab would get into different areas and such around the house, until I hooked up a hot wire around the "no no" places. Cured that!! LOL! Heck, I even had to hook up my car trailer, BBQ grill and satellite wires because she kept on chewing them up/off! Only took a couple hits!:D

[Sieg]

Probably a little sewer gas seeping through the soil, he smells the nutrient's in it and thinks its food. Sorry Siegster, no more sh$ting in the house for you and the fam. Sux. My tucker is sitting next to me right now as i type snoring like a mofo. He is one fat and lazy and lovable white english lab (and smelly)....i call hime the "rare white pig of livermore".
No sewer, fresh 3/4- under the loam. He's got "open range" in the back to dig........BUT NOoooooo. :D

Cant wait to see how this turns out......:popcorn2:
You and me both......some say he'll dig to one side. I'm hoping he gets the message that I don't want him digging there. He might experience the shock collar on full boost for the first time. :warning:

Will work.... Kind of! I'd just hook up an electric fence around it. My lab would get into different areas and such around the house, until I hooked up a hot wire around the "no no" places. Cured that!! LOL! Heck, I even had to hook up my car trailer, BBQ grill and satellite wires because she kept on chewing them up/off! Only took a couple hits!:D
It's funny as he's basically a role model dog with this exception. Never has damaged any property other the the MCL in my right knee. :rolleyes:

[fleetus macmullitz]

Cant wait to see how this turns out......:popcorn2:

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[Sieg]

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[Vince@Meanstreets]

LOL,

Thats funny.


not sure about the expanded steel, i would have filled it with gravel, pissed on it then covered it in a burlap sheet then dirt.

[Sieg]

LOL,

Thats funny.


not sure about the expanded steel, i would have filled it with gravel, pissed on it then covered it in a burlap sheet then dirt.

Might have to play the marking game..........after I eat some asparagus. :unibrow:

[Mkelcy]

LOL,

Thats funny.


not sure about the expanded steel, i would have filled it with gravel, pissed on it then covered it in a burlap sheet then dirt.

Agreed on doubts about the expanded steel. If he rips out a claw on it, you're going to have an expensive vet trip. If you want a barrier, I'd use plywood and then soak it in one of the products that's supposed to keep dogs from digging.

[DRJDVM's '69]

One technique that has worked for some of my clients....

Fill the hole with a bunch of his own dog crap....yes that dog crap.... and then bury it....the **** needs to be near the surface....maybe a couple of inches deep at best....

Worked pretty good with my mastiff...but he wasnt an obsessed digger...just an amateur...

Coffee grounds work pretty good for cats that dig in flower beds...not sure if it would help with a dog...

[Sieg]

Ned - that's too logical and there's certainly no waste shortage!

[GregWeld]

The expanded metal was mostly likely used for "drainage" ----- I'd just have used any aluminum or steel plate I had laying around -- with smoothed edges... No claw damage that way.


Maybe whatever is there that is the attractant will have gone away during the next seasonal change.


That or you can put on your big boy pants and grab a shovel and dig til you find what he's looking for....


The trainer here told us when the dogs jump on the window at his office -- he just doesn't say a word - he just fry's em with the collar. Says it only takes 'em a couple times and they don't do that again. We have the type collar that you set the intensity at the control -- so it's easy to set it on fry.

Ned - being the good soul and veterinarian that he is - won't like me talking like that...

You could use one large Tucker dump -- what's that look like - a Home Depot 5 gallon bucket... ?? Oh my.... I'd be taking long walks with that dog far from anywhere I'd have to "pick up". LOL

[Sieg]

GW - if I could use his waste to fuel a furnice it would cut my heating bill in half......easily, and we're heating 4100 sf. :D

[glassman]

Theres something worth trying.....bet your neighboors would love the residual smell, kinda like I-5 here in central CA....

[GregWeld]

Since I'm an internationally licensed Pyrotechnician (which really just means I have friends in the business) ----- I'd rig up a tripwire to your newly built ground pounder and set that down in the hole -- you know -- just below the surface -- and when he has his nose stuck down in the mud - and then finds that tripwire... Well let's just say - if he survives the heart attack - he won't want to revisit that hole again any time soon...



LOL



No I would never do this.... but I had nothing else to add to the subject.

[Sieg]

:lol: He'd poop himself inside out then die.