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I am going to share a tip I learned about how to prevent your dog’s digging up the yard. A few days ago I ran into town with my friend. When we got back, we were unable to drive through the front gate. My friend”s nutty dogs dug a huge hole over five feet across and at least two feet deep. Since we live at the beach, his driveway is just sand, so it wasn’t difficult for the dogs to excavate a huge hole in front of the gate.  His dogs have done this every so often for years. It was clear time to teach these old dogs new tricks, and stop their digging.

There are more than one reason why a dog may be digging in the yard or garden.  It could be because of boredom, or separation anxiety, an attempt to escape, an attempt to dig down to cooler moister soil during hot weather, or a predisposition based on the type of breed you have . I’ve got some good tips on how to prevent dogs from digging up their yard or the garden. In my neighbor’s case the dogs dug right in front of the gate, so it was an obvious attempt to escape.  At other times his dogs have dug huge holes which are nowhere near the gate, apparently out of boredom. At other times, his dogs would dig up any areas that were wet from watering to escape the heat of the sand. The need to prevent these dogs from digging up the whole place at my friend’s house was long overdue.

Following some of the advice I found on solving digging problems in a great dog training book I have, we decided was to build the dogs their own area where they were free to dig without it being a problem. We enclosed the chosen area of the yard with some dog proof fencing, and because the ground is sand, we already had made the safe digging area for the dogs. It’s a good idea to make sure there is some shade above the enclosed area for protection form the summer sun. My neighbor even put in a wading pool and some chew toys. He really loves his dogs. Since the dogs only dug up the yard when he was away he has now learned how to prevent the dogs from digging up his yard using a win-win type of solution.

You may not live on a sandy beach lot, but you can still make a suitable area for your digging dog in you own yard. Inside the  area that you have chosen to enclose just put in a sandbox with some loose soil mixed with sand. Inside the enclosed and partially shaded area with the sand box, you can also place some fresh water and some chew toys to play with, so he won’t get bored too much.

Not only have you stopped your dog from digging up your yard in your absence, you now have given him a fun place to be while you are away. You might even be able to let your dog out of his enclosure while you are away without him return to digging up the yard-since he now is used to digging in the special area. However, if he was digging for the escape reason, you should keep him his play area while you are away. Once you’ve provided the special area, you’ve prevented your dog from any further digging in your yard.

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