trench digger - Page 2

many things dogs do,bark,dig,etc. You may want to give him/her own sand box...Dig with the dog in an area allowed,bury some toys there. They are smart animals and soon will realize where they are allowed to dig... You cant beat them > join them!!! Otherwise I agree with the rest here,hire a cement truck...

My experience is the cement truck.

When they have particular places they like to dig , the stool sujestion works well, but mine love investigating and searching and this means digging. I brought in a couple of yards of sand in and put it near their kennel. They loved it, couldn't get enough of it. Like a couple of little kids digging away. Seemed to really help until they spread the sand out all over. So now I will build them a sand box with plywood to keep it from spreading. I am hopeful this will help cause my yards to big for concrete.

Too bad you can't put them to work digging something useful. haha Mine usually only dig when they are "nesting", and one of mine buries any treats I give her. I would try the fencing on the ground that you can mow over if I had one who dug...that's an excellent idea! I've found that if you leave your dogs free to run around, (yes, I know, not always possible) that they don't dig much, if at all. One of mine does dig when put in a 36x12 foot run, but does not do that if left to roam free. Good luck, and let me know how concrete prices look.

Sounds like more than a digging problem if he's eating the lawn too. What food is he getting? My experience is that puppies getting large breed puppy foods will tear lots of things apart and try to eat them (even wall board). The large breed puppy foods are so restrictive in calcium and phosphorus that it's an extremely unhealthy diet for German Shepherd pups. Eukanuba large breed puppy has warnings...do not feed to pregnant or nursing dogs and do not give to weaning puppies. My experience is dogs having difficulty getting ears up when on this diet. Imagine giving your child a restricted diet because you want him to grow slower? Dog food companies had a good idea that in practice is a nightmare. No consumers demand tha large breed foods, not knowing it's an unhealthy choice for their dogs. One assumes large breed food means more nutrition not less. If your pup is from genetically sound stock (known passing hip scores) then feed your pup a good quality regular puppy food that is NOT large breed. When ears are up and perfect *and* the dog is done teething switch to a good adult food (large breed adult has more nutrition than the large breed puppy). If your pup is getting a restricted clacium : phosphorus diet as in the large breed puppy foods, you will see the lawn eating subside very soon once he's switched to a more nutritionally complete food. Good luck. Let us know what brings success. Sue-Ann

I did the fence on the ground too...but I used cattle pannels, they are heavy and a little cheeper I think..5'x16' for $12. I put them down in the smaller yard and only took the dog in that area for a while, makeing sure he had lots of things to play with, his fav is the large plasic indistructable ball, he will push this around for hours...bad on the teath though...anyway. after a couple of months of not succedding in getting to china he stopped trying. and now can be anywhere and will not even try to dig a hole. I would watch him very close if he ever does get out of the yard by accident then you will have a very hard time with keeping him in.

I've had plenty of dogs that dug holes and ate dirt and grass and none were lacking anything in their diet. It's a behaviorial thing, it's not nutritional. You can feed dogs that do this the best food known to man and it will not break them of the habit. The only solution is to take away their opportunity to dig.