In all my years of owning dogs
Toffee is the first "digger" I have ever had
.
She started from the day she arrived home.
Her specialty was to undermine the pot plants,
rather dangerous as some of my pots are huge.
I looked up Ian Dunbar's article on digging dogs,
he suggested assigning a special place for digging
and salting it with treats and bones.
As my garden is not very big, Chris suggested using
a children's sandpit.
It works brilliantly, sometimes she finds a biscuit hidden in there
so it is always worth checking out.
This picture was taken after she had emptied half the dirt out,
she couldn't decide the best place to hide her teething bone,
so of course she kept digging it up and the dirt went flying.
Where did she eventually put it?
Under her bottom!!
Toff spends hours in the dirt, it is in a sunny corner,
under the veranda and out of the strong rain.
Toffee treats her sandpit like her crate -----
a nice secure place to hang out,
when there is nothing interesting going on.
If you have a digger, this could be the solution for you,
its worth a try.
Enjoy the Spring rain -- it makes the weeds grow!
