Dogs love to dig but this can be a problem if that lovely landscaped yard of yours looks like a minefield from all the holes that your dog has dug. No doubt if you have a dog that likes to dig you have tried all and sundry to get it to stop from smacking it to yelling at it when it starts to dig and you probably still haven’t resolved the problem. Once again, like all methods of dog training, if you can address the reason why the dog is doing something you will be able to eliminate the problem. Read more [...]

  If your garden looks like a war zone because your Golden Retriever has been attacking it, you need to concentrate on preventing these things from happening when you are not there to supervise your dog. If you leave your dog and come home ten hours later and try to correct your dog for the hole he dug while you were gone, you are wasting your time as your correction is much too late. Instead of understanding that he is being corrected for digging, your dog is going to think he’s being Read more [...]

In brief, you must confine him when you cannot supervise him… until he demonstrates that he has dropped the behavior.Here’s the down home fastest way to fix the digging problem. 1.) Exercise the heck out of the dog. The dog won’t exercise himself sufficiently… even with a big yard. 2.) Start feeding the dog some pineapple with his meal. This makes his feces smell really bad to him (as if it doesn’t smell bad enough??) Bury the feces in the holes he’s already dug in. You might also try adding Read more [...]