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07-24-2008, 01:40 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2008 Location: Wales
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| D I G G I N G .....Why do they do it? The puppies have a passion for digging in the flower-beds and in the lawn when unattended. I have had to keep them leashed to stop them running riot in the flower-beds but even when I am in the garden with them and playing to keep them interested they still find it too much to resist ! Putting the poo into the hole (advice given via this site, but originally by a 'trainer') doesn't really work for me. They don't have a desire to return to the hole they dug earlier, they just dig another. I don't want their new compound to look like the surface of the Moon, full of craters! What's the answer? If you can help I'd be very grateful.
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07-24-2008, 02:32 AM | #2 |
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| My past yorkies never had the desire to dig in the dirt. I really think it is because we lived in another house that didn't have a fenced in back yard. They were walked on a regular basis. My new yorkies have a huge backyard with a privacy fence around it. They are walked in the morning and the evening (before bed) but I notice when we are home, and outside on the patio, they will play and then start digging and rolling. I think they smell either rabbit poo or squirl poo. YUCK! when I see them digging I go there and tell them to "LEAVE IT" - sometimes it takes a couple of times because they are just little puppies. Yes, they move to another spot at times but I keep giving them the same command.
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07-24-2008, 02:56 AM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| I don't know why they dig but I went through the same thing last summer when mine were younger. They dug holes in my lawn, holes in my gardens and even dug up tulip bulbs which they would run off with. Now, at ages 1 1/2 and 1, they don't dig anymore. Now they use the garden to play hide 'n seek, flattening smaller flowers as they race by. I guess it's better than digging everything up. LOL
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07-25-2008, 08:35 PM | #4 |
DEBRA'S DORKY YORKIES4 Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Highland Scotland
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| It stops once the teething is over with and when they are about 1 year to 18 months In otherwords when their silly babyhood or childhood is over with...like toddlers sticking everything in their mouths I suppose ha ha Till then just put sticks and bricks over things you don't want dug up, lol Debra x x x |
07-31-2008, 06:21 AM | #5 |
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| Katie stopped at ten months, but since I've got Suzi, who likes to dig, Katie has started again. Now they're both at it usually the same hole. lol. It's a vicious circle eh. Hugs Shirl x x
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07-31-2008, 06:30 AM | #6 |
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| Well Gabby is going to be 3 yrs old and digs a huge hole for you in 2 seconds. Although I tell her no, she'll wait a couple of minutes and go to another area and dig again. Now my other two furkids do not dig. |
07-31-2008, 09:10 AM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bristol England
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| your yorkie is just being a dog and dogs like to dig the best answer is to fence off your lawn and garden so they cannot get at it and provide a paved or slab area in which they can play. |
08-14-2008, 07:30 AM | #8 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2008 Location: Wales
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| Of course you are right ... they are doing what comes natural! The compound is now built and the puppies have their own space in the garden and I have my flower beds back in shape and out of reach. The compound is built on grass so YES they still dig it up but I don't mind at all - it's what they love to do and I take solace in these replies that tell me by the time they reach 12 - or 18 months old it will have stopped. Despite the heavy rain showers that we have experienced lately the puppies decided it was better to get wet than go into their kennel for shelter - can't quite work that one out yet! Muddy and quagmire are two words that spring to mind but they didn't mind one little bit, they just carried on regardless, chasing one another and having tons of fun. Getting some camo netting to put over the compound to stop the birds of prey getting in. Today a cry from a buzzard alerted me to dash out of the house and into the garden ... I was in time to deter it by shouting and flapping my arms around me in 'nutcase fashion'! The puppies do a very good impression of a rabbit, obviously!
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08-18-2008, 01:47 PM | #9 |
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| Digging I am also having problem with digging. They only dig if I am not supervising them and they don't like it if I just go out with them and bring them right back in when they potty. I notice product at Petsmart that "No Digging" Just wondered if it worked. I know the "No Go" does not work. |
08-18-2008, 03:13 PM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Northern Ireland
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| It's in their genes, thats what terriers do ~ dig. I haven't really seen Alfie digging outside but he trys to dig a hole in my bed.
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